“I like to call people’s bluffs,” Owen Ambur once told us. Anyone who has attended meetings of the CIO Council’s Extensible Markup Language Community of Practice can attest to his insistent nature. As co-director of the group, Ambur tirelessly encouraged XML-based interoperability. In January, Ambur retired as chief information architect at the Interior Department, where, 20 years ago, he was one of the first managers to recognize the value of electronic recordkeeping. We caught up with him in his Silver Spring, Md., home to discuss the importance of recordkeeping and StratML, an XML-based schema he is developing, with Adam Schwartz of the Government Printing Office, for agency strategic plans.
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