0001 (Governance) - Enterprise Architecture Standards Process. Documents the EA standards process. Defines the stages in the standardization process, the requirements for moving a document between stages, and the types of documents used during this process.
0002 (Standard) - Person Name. A standard for describing a person’s name, including various views of the data model.
0003 (Governance) - Instructions to NIHRFC Authors - How to Write a Standard. This document is a guide for NIH IT and architecture standards writers. It defines those characteristics that make standards coherent, unambiguous, and easy to interpret.
0004 (Best Community Practice) - NIH System Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Specifies the role of the NIH Enterprise Architecture in the SDLC for enterprise systems and provides the background for SDLC concepts, which may serve as a foundation for the SDLC approach for NIH organizations.
0005 (Standard) - Unique Identifier for People, the NIH ID Number. Establishes an architecture standard for the NIH ID Number, which provides a public representation of the identities of individuals who use NIH resources and services.
0007 (Standard) - NIH Group Naming Standard. Documents the standard for the creation of groups as part of NIH directories and defines the group naming convention that conveys the group’s scope and purpose for NIH staff.
0008 (Best Community Practice) - Active Directory Attribute Data Content and Management. Documents a set of principles for the creation and maintenance of AD attributes. Describes how the NIH Active Directory attribute administration should occur and presents recommended practices for NIH business managers, application designers/developers, and security officers. Additionally, enables application owners to decide which attributes will best meet their specific application requirements.1
0009 (Governance) - NIH Request for Comments Template. NIHRFC authors must use this template to submit an NIHRFC in any track. OCITA will not accept any other format.
0011 (Standard) - Server Bricks. Establishes two server bricks as part of the NIH Enterprise Architecture: "Enterprise and Mid-Range Server Platform Processor Architecture" and "Enterprise and Mid-Range Operating System Server."
0012 (Standard) - Web, Database, and Application Server Bricks. Establishes four new server bricks: Web Server, OLTP Database Server, Data Warehouse Database Server, and Application Server.
0014 (Standard) - Staff Digital Certificate Brick. Establishes a Staff Digital Certificate Brick as part of the NIH Enterprise Architecture.
0015 (Governance) - Decision Criteria for Selecting NIH Standards. Documents the baseline decision criteria to be used in NIH Enterprise Architecture processes for selecting and gaining consensus on the architecture standards to be recommended to the Architecture Review Board for approval.
0016 (Governance) - Enterprise Architecture Exception Process. Specifies the NIH Enterprise Architecture exception process.
0017 (Best Community Practice) - Unique Identifier for People: Best Community Practice. Documents the implementation of a Unique Identifier for People, the NIH ID Number, which provides a convenient, public representation of the identities of individuals who use NIH resources and services. Describes how the NIH Enterprise Directory (NED) manages NIH ID Numbers, and presents recommended practices for NIH business managers, application designers/developers, and security officers.
0018 (Best Community Practice) - Terminal Server Services Pattern. Documents a terminal services design alternative for the Division of Extramural Activities Support (DEAS) access to IC file systems to allow for cross-levelling of DEAS resources.
0019 (Best Community Practice) - Central File Store Pattern. Documents a central file store design alternative for the Division of Extramural Activities Support (DEAS) remote access to IC file systems to allow for cross-levelling of DEAS resources.
0022 (Informational Only) - Federal Authentication and Identity Management. Provides a concise guide to Federal authentication and identity management requirements and shows how these requirements interrelate.
0023 (Best Community Practice) - Enterprise Architecture Alignment Process. Prescribes the process whereby NIH solution implementation and operations efforts are aligned with the NIH Enterprise Architecture.
0024 (Standard) - NIH Budget Entities. Defines the major budget entities within the Accounting Code Structure (ACS) that are managed within the developing NIH Business System (NBS).
0025 (Standard) - NIH Enterprise Conceptual Data Model. Provides a specification of the key data entities that support NIH’s business processes, an overarching framework to organize more detailed data architecture efforts, and a common taxonomy for describing data assets across NIH.
0026 (Standard) - NIH Grants Conceptual Data Model. Provides a specification of the key data entities and relationships that support NIH’s grants business processes and provides an overarching framework to organize more detailed grants data architecture efforts and a common taxonomy for describing grants data assets across the NIH.
0027 (Standard) - Business Process Modeling. Establishes a standard that current and future state business models for new and existing systems shall be submitted to the Office of the Chief IT Architect (OCITA) for verification.
0028 (Standard) - NIH Federated Identity Bricks and Pattern. Establishes a standard for the evolving Federated Identity service solutions that will affect the NIH Enterprise Architecture with respect to possible identities and secure access.
0029 (Standard) - Web Content Management System Standards. Provides implementation guidance to NIH project teams who are undertaking new web content management system projects or investments or are undertaking major upgrades / migrations to existing implementations. Includes a revised Web Content Management Service Pattern and a revised Web Content Management Systems Brick.
0030 (Standard) - NIH Login to Support Single Sign-On Technologies for Web-Based Applications. Establishes a standard for single sign-on and prescribes the use of NIH Login for all new web-based applications requiring authentication.
0032 (Informational Only) - Video Teleconferencing (VTC) Technology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Provides information on the VTC practices at NIH, a background on the International Telecommunication Union -Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Recommendations and the business drivers for utilizing NIH’s VTC infrastructure.
0033 (Standard) - Video Teleconferencing (VTC) Technology Brick and Pattern. Establishes a set of standards, including a pattern and a brick, for implementing video teleconferencing (VTC) technology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
