EML
Paul Spencer is an active member of the OASIS Technical Committee, and developed the XML Schemas for EML and the means of customising the schemas for various types of elections. He also developed the customisations for UK public election pilots and for the online electoral registers (CORE) project.
Clients
- Cabinet Office e-Government Unit
- Department for Constitutional Affairs
- Department for Education and Skills
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Learning and Skills Council
- Microsoft
- Ministry of Defence
- National Westminster Bank
- NHS Information Authority
- NHS in Scotland
- Office of Government Commerce
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Office of the e-Envoy
- Open University
- SchlumbergerSema
- Scottish Executive
Papers
- From Spreadsheet to Schema
- A Technical Standard for e-Voting
- Combining OASIS Standards to Create a Repository and Assembly Mechanism for XML Schema Components
- The Election Markup Language
- e-Government in the UK
- Developing e-GIF Compliant XML Systems For Government
- e-Government in the UK
- XML: the relevance to e-government
- Using XML in Government
- Delivering New Electronic Services in the Public Sector
- e-Gov and XML Government Advanced Technology
- Delivering New Electronic Services in the Public Sector
Books
- XML for the Web
- Professional XSL
- Beginning XML
- Professional XML Design and Implementation
The Election Markup Language
The OASIS Election Markup Language (EML) provides for the "structured interchange of data among hardware, software, and service providers who engage in any aspect of providing election or voter services to public or private organizations". In practice, this means that EML can be used within virtually every type of public and private election and referendum, whether the actual voting is done electronically or on paper. For this reason, suppliers of election systems and services are starting to support EML and it is important for those organizing elections to know how to use this to their advantage.
Who should attend
The course is divided into an overview day and a technical workshop. The first day is aimed at those responsible for organizing elections, managers within suppliers of election systems and services, project managers and technical staff. The second day is aimed at project managers and technical staff who have attended the first day.
What you will learn
On the first day, you will get a background to EML, why it is important, how it meets the security needs of public elections and how it can be tailored to the needs of a specific election. Those staying for day two will learn more detail of the EML messages themselves and how to define and implement local requirements.
Day 1 (Overview)
- Welcome and Introductions
- Why and how the Election Markup Language is being developed
- The scope of the language in the public and private sectors
- EML terminology
- The model election process used to develop and explain EML
- How EML is structured
- How EML supports different election and referendum types
- How EML can be tailored to meet the requirements of individual elections
- The security and audit mechanisms of EML
Day 2 (Technical workshop)
- The EML messages in more detail
- How to define local election rules
- One way to implement the local election rule mechanism
- Examples of EML message validation
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