Strategy Markup Language (StratML) is an XML vocabulary and schema for strategic plans.  Its purposes include but may not be limited to the following:

• Facilitate the sharing, referencing, indexing, discovery, linking, reuse, and analyses of the elements of strategic plans, including goal and objective statements as well as the names and descriptions of stakeholder groups and any other content commonly included in strategic plans.
• Enable the concept of "strategic alignment" to be realized in literal linkages among goal and objective statements and all other records created by organizations in the routine course of their business processes.
• Facilitate the discovery of potential performance partners who share common goals and objectives and/or either produce inputs needed or require outputs produced by the organization compiling the strategic plan.
• Facilitate stakeholder feedback on strategic goals and objectives.
• Facilitate updating and maintenance of  discrete elements of strategic plans without requiring review and approval of the entire plan through bureaucratic channels, thereby helping to make the strategic planning process more agile and responsive to stakeholder feedback and changing circumstances, thus helping to overcome the tendency of strategic plans to become outdated "shelfware".
• Reduce the needless time, effort, inconsistencies, and delays associated with maintaining data redundantly in myriad "stovepipe" systems rather than referencing the authoritative sources.
• Enable agencies to comply with the provisions of subsections 202(b)(4) & (5) and 207(d) of the eGov Act, which respectively require agencies to:
  • Work together to link their performance goals to key groups, including citizens, businesses, and other governments, as well as internal Federal Government operations; and
  • Adopt open standards (e.g., StratML) enabling the organization and categorization of Government information in a way that is searchable electronically and interoperably across agencies.

History of StratML:

• The original project proposal submitted to AIIM, December 19, 2003
• HyperVision's draft (obsolete) XSD for Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) strategic plans
• The description identifying StratML in the ET.gov process
• Strategic plan elements draft glossary (obsolete)
• Implementing a Government-wide Semantic Solution to Thesauri - Paper by Ken Sall and Ronald Reck, XML 2005 Conference, November 15, 2005
• Documentation provided at CORE.gov, including:
• StratML Value Proposition White Paper, April 18, 2006
  
• A white paper, dated September 6, 2007, reporting progress and potential next steps to the CIOC/AIC leadership
  
• Presentation to the xmlCoP, September 20, 2006
  
• Presentation to the CIO Council's (CIOC) Architecture and Infrastructure Committee (AIC), September 20, 2007
• AIIM Standards Board agrees to pursue establishment of StratML as an ISO standard, September 2007
  • You can see the archives and, if you wish, subscribe to AIIM's listserv to receive notices of StratML Committee meetings.
• Federal Computer Week article on the appointment of Performance Improvement Officers, December 10, 2007
• Government Computer News article on AIIM's adoption of StratML into its standards program, December 11, 2007
• OMB Circular A-119 directs agencies to particpate in the development and use of voluntary consensus standards.
• The first meeting/telecon of AIIM's StratML Standard Committee, January 10, 2008.
• Presentation given by Adam Schwartz
• Meeting Minutes
• Adam Schwartz's February 8, 2008, graphical depiction of the Performance Plan/Report task group's proposed extensions to core schema (See page 2. Task group members included Adam, Owen, John Chickering & Jim St. Clair.)
• Collaboration Expedition Workshop Session on StratML, February 19
• Comments requested on the names and definitions of elements in the StratML core schema and white paper. Comments posted on the listserv.
• Oliver Recklies' Comments, March 12, 2008
• Compilation of comments on proposed additions and changes to the initially deliverable StratML core vocabulary and schema during the first phase of the project
• Carl Frappaolo's response to comment on the potential use of StratML to aid findability and relevancy ranking of content, May 8, 2008
• Christopher Dorobek's Federal Computer Week (FCW) blog on organizational design flaws, May 27, 2008
• June 5 meeting Agenda & Minutes from May 8 meeting
• List of action items compiled by Betsy Fanning as of June 4, 2008
• Minutes & action items from June 5, 2008, meeting.
• See also:
  • AIIM's StratML Standard Committee Page & Listserv Archives
  • Wikipedia articles on Strategic Planning, Management, and Strategic Management
  • Business Rules Group's Business Motivation Model, September 2007
  • A proposed high-level model for strategic planning, June 2001

Current Work and Results:

• StratML Committee meeting/telecon scheduled for July 17, beginning at 11:00 a.m., at AIIM headquarters, 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1100, Silver Spring, MD 20910
  • Graphical depiction of the StratML Core Framework, version 3, compiled by Adam Schwartz on June 3
  • Glossary for the StratML Core compiled by Owen Ambur using this XSD and stylesheet
  • Simplified graphic depicting the performance plan/report value chain, compiled by Owen Ambur on June 4
  • Candidate standards for potential reuse as the organizational identification elements in StratML proposed by Betty Harvey on June 5.
  • Shell draft of AIIM StratML standard document
  • Draft Use Case for consideration by the W3C's eGov IG


• The StratML Core XML Schema (XSD)
• David Webber's proposed improved XSD with a namespace declaration
• InfoPath Form using David's XSD
• Betty Harvey revising to include stratml.org namespace as well as IDs attributes on each element in the schema



• More than 280 strategic plans rendered in StratML format, using (thus far) five different authoring/conversion tools, including:
1. Microsoft InfoPath using this form
2. Business Web Software AchieveForms using the form on their demonstration site
3. PDF Fillable Form
4. Xopus Form
5. Microsoft Word

U.S. Federal Agencies - Small Agencies | State & Local Agencies
Nonprofit Organizations | International Government Agencies

U.S. Federal Agency Plans

1. President's Management Agenda (PMA)
• Xopus Renditions - Read-Only | Editable
2. Lines of Business (LOBs):
• Budget Formulation and Execution (BFE LOB)
• Case Management (CM LOB)
• Federal Health Architecture (FHA LOB)
• Financial Management (FM LOB)
• Geospatial (GLOB)
• Grants Management (GM LOB)
• Human Resources (HR LOB)
• Information Systems Security (ISS LOB)
• Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Optimization (IOI LOB)
3. CIO Council (CIOC)
4. E-Government Strategy (eGov)
5. Office of Electronic Government and Technology (OEGT)
6. Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office (FEA PMO)
1. Federal Enterprise Architecture Business Reference Model (FEA BRM)
2. Enterprise Architecture Assessment Framework (EAAF)
7. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
8. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
9. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
10. Department of Commerce (DOC)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
11. Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development (CSIA)
12. Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
13. United States Copyright Office (USCO)
14. Department of Education (ED)
15. Department of Energy (DOE)
• Department of Energy (DOE) Information Resources Management (IRM)
• Office of Science, Department of Energy (DOE/ER)
16. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    • Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Tribal Strategic Plan (OPPTSTSP)
17. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
18. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
19. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
20. Forest Service (FS)
21. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
22. Government Printing Office (GPO)
23. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Department of Health and Human Services, Information Technology (Draft) (HHS/IT)
24. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
25. Department of the Interior (DOI)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Information Resources Management (IRM)
• Department of the Interior, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Information Technology (OCIO)
26. Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
27. Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
28. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
29. National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development(NCO NITRD)
30. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• NIST E-Gov Standards Resource Center (ESRC)
• National Center for Standards and Certification Information (NCSCI)
31. National Military Strategy (NMS)
32. National Security Strategy (NSS)
33. National Strategy for Information Sharing (NSIS)
34. Department of Labor (DOL)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
35. Library of Congress (LOC)
36. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
37. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
38. Department of Transportation (DOT)
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
39. Department of Treasury (Treasury)
40. Web Content Managers (WCM)
41. United States Standards Strategy (USSS)

Small Agency Council (SAC)

1. Administrative Office of U.S. Courts (AOUSC)
2. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (AC/PD)
3. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (AC/HP)
4. African Development Foundation (ADF)
5. Agency for International Development (AID)
6. American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
7. Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
8. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (U.S. Access Board)
9. Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH)
10. Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation (GSF)
11. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
12. Commission on Fine Arts (CFA)
13. Commission on Civil Rights (CCR)
14. Committee for Purchase from People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled (AbilityOne)
15. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
16. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
17. Corporation for National and Community Service (CNS)
18. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA)
19. Denali Commission
20. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
21. Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)
22. District of Columbia Pretrial Services Agency (DCPSA)
23. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
24. Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM BANK)
25. Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
26. Federal Administration Managers Association (FAMA) (FMA?)
27. Federal Election Commission (FEC)
28. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
29. Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB)
• FHFB Information Technology (FHFB/IT)
30. Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA)
31. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
32. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)
33. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC)
34. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB)
35. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
36. General Services Administration (GSA)
37. Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation (HTSF)
38. Holocaust Memorial Museum (US/HHM)
39. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
40. Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
41. International Trade Commission (ITC)
• International Trade Commission, Information Resources Management (ITC)
42. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC)
43. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
44. James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (JMMFF)
45. Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
46. Marine Mammal Commission (MMC)
47. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
48. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB)
49. National Archives and Records Administration(NARA)
50. National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
51. National Cooperative Administrative Support Units (CASU) Program - Office of the Chief Aquisition Officer (OCAO)
52. National Council on Disability (NCD)
53. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
54. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
55. National Gallery of Art (NGA)
56. National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC)
57. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
58. National Mediation Board (NMB)
59. National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)
60. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
61. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
62. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB)
63. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC)
64. Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO)
65. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
    • OGE Information Resources Management (OGE/IRM)
66. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
67. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (ONHIR)
68. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
69. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
70. Office of Special Counsel (OSC)
71. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
• OPIC Information Technology (OPIC/IT)
72. Peace Corps (PC)
• National Peace Corps Association (NPCA)
73. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
74. Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)
75. The Presidio Trust (TPT)
76. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
77. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
78. Selective Service System (SSS)
79. Small Business Administration (SBA)
80. Smithsonian Institution (SI)
81. Surface Transportation Board (STB)
82. U.S. Arctic Research Commission (ARCTIC)
83. U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB)
84. U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
85. U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC)
86. U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)

State and Local Agencies

1. Hilton Head Public Service District (HHPSD)
2. Town of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (HHI)
3. State of Maine, Office of Information Technology (OIT)
4. State of Utah (UT)
• State of Utah, Information Technology (UTIT)

Nonprofit, Public Service Organizations

1. Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12)
2. Action Without Borders (AWB)
3. Alliance of Nonprofit Management (ANPM)
4. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
5. American Bar Association, Division of Public Education (ABA/DPE)
6. American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
7. American Society of Access Professionals (ASAP)
8. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
9. Anti-Slavery International (ASI)
10. ARMA International (ARMA)
11. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
12. Association for Community Networking (AFCN)
13. Association of Government Accountants (AGA)
14. Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
15. Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA UK)
16. Association for Strategic Planning (ASP)
17. ASTM International (ASTM)
18. Boy Scouts of America (BSA)
19. Brookings Institution (BI)
20. CENDI
21. Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
22. Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
23. The Center for Public Integrity (TCPI)
24. Center for Responsive Politics (CRP)
25. Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
26. Central and Eastern European Citizens Network (CEECN)
27. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
28. Club of Rome (CR)
29. Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
30. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
31. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
32. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
33. Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
34. Council of State Archivists (CoSA)
35. DAMA International (DAMA)
36. Development Gateway Foundation (DGF)
37. Essential Information (EI)
38. Ethics Resource Center (ERC)
39. Family Services, Inc. - Montgomery County, MD (FSI)
40. Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (GI)
41. Government Accountability Project (GAP)
42. Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC)
43. Hudson Institute (HI)
44. IJIS Institute (IJIS)
45. Industry Advisory Council (IAC)
46. Information Renaissance (InfoRen)
47. International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI)
48. International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
49. International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
50. International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM)
51. International Council on Archives (ICA)
52. International Council of Museums (ICOM)
53. International Council for Science (ICSU)
54. International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)
55. International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
56. International Digital Enterprise Alliance, Inc. (IDEAlliance)
57. International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC Master Plan & Mission & Objectives)
58. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
59. International Finance Corporation (IFC)
60. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
61. International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS)
62. International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
63. International Society for the System Sciences (ISSS)
64. iSolon.org (IS)
65. Liberty Coalition (LC)
66. Management Lab (MLab)
67. National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
68. National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
69. National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA)
70. National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC)
71. National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers, and Treasurers (NASACT)
72. National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)
73. National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA)
74. National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
75. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
76. National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC)
77. National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
78. National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
79. National Wildlife Federation (NWF)
80. National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET)
81. OMB Watch (OMBW)
82. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
83. Open Data Foundation (ODaF)
84. OpenTheGovernment.org (OTG)
85. Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
86. Peace Operations Policy Program (POPP)
87. Public Citizen (PC)
88. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
89. Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC)
90. Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
91. ReclaimDemocracy.org (RDO)
92. Society of American Archivists (SAA)
93. Society for MilitarPSsychology (SMP)
94. Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
95. Strategic Planning Society (SPS)
96. Sustainability Institute (SI)
97. System Dynamics Society (SDS)
• United Kingdom Chapter (SDS-UK)
98. Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS)
99. Volunteers in Medicine Institute (VIM)
100. Water Environment Federation (WEF)
101. The World Bank (WB)
102. W3C eGovernment Interest Group (WEIG)
103. Wallace Foundation (WF)
104. World Values Survey Association (WVSA)
105. Washington (State) Coalition for Open Government (WCOG)

Non-U.S. Government Agencies

1. Agency for International Science and Technology Development, Lithuania (AISTD)
2. Australian Government Information Management Office, e-Government Strategy (AGIMO)
3. Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
4. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
5. Commission for Environmental Coordination (CEC)
6. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australia (SDSC)
7. Canada Council for the Arts (CCA)
8. Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
9. National Research Council Canada (CNRC)
10. Public Health Agency Canada (PHAC)
11. Canadian Standards Strategy (CSS)
12. Sport Canada (SC)
13. Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
14. European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
15. French National Institute for Transport and Safety (INRETS)
16. National Centre for Science Information, Indian Institute of Science (NCSI)
17. U.S.-India Strategic Economic Partnership (USISEP)
18. University for Peace (UPEACE)
• UPEACE Centre (UPEACE Centre)
19. Mexican Digital Government Strategy (eGov Mexico)
20. Research Council of Norway (RCN)
21. Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe (SEMIC)
22. Cultural Policy Institute (Russia) (CPI)
23. Sweden’s National Strategy for Sustainable Development 2002 (SNSSD)
24. The United Kingdom's (UK) International Priorities, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)
25. United Kingdom (UK) Photonics Strategy, Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
26. United Nations Capital Development Fund Local Governance Unit (LGU)

If you would like to include your organization's plan in the StratML collection, please contact us.

StratML Search Services

1. Mark Logic Prototype - Contact Owen Ambur for user name and password

2. WWW StratML

3. Software AG (link to be provided as soon as possible)
4. Others?

See also our page listing only the <WebAddresses> (URLs) of the StratML instance documents to facilitate automated indexing  by search services