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What is a Data Registry?

A place to keep facts about characteristics of data that are necessary to clearly describe, inventory, analyze, and classify data

Supports data sharing with cross-system and cross-organization descriptions of common units of data

Assists users of shared data to have common understanding of the meaning, representation, and identification of a unit of data

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What is the EDR?

It is a single, comprehensive,

authoritative source of information about

environmental data. The EDR is available electronically via the

World Wide Web.

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Goals of the EDR

Provide a source of well-formed data elements and value domains

Promote the reuse of well-formed data in Agency systems and beyond

Enable data sharing, data integration, and data comparability

Provide a metadata repository - a central information source about Agency data

Environmental Data Registry

Dictionary: information ondata names, definitions,formats, and relationships

Directory: organizations responsible for the data

Reference Book: descriptionsof the data Road Map: location andrelationship information

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Software Architecture

EnvironmentalData

Registry

Oracle 8.0.4Database

DynamicallyGenerated

HTML

Netscape 3.0

Enterprise

ServerDEC Alpha 4100

Browser

(3.0.18)

EDREDR

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Registry Name: Facility Name

Definition: The name of a facility or complex facility

Identifier: 5720

Version Number: 1

Administrative Status: Draft

Registration Status: Certified

Maximum Character Count: 50

Datatype: Alphanumeric

Document Information: Envirofacts Locational Reference

Tables, Version 2.1, Data Modeling Report, 02/05/97; Facility

Identification Initiative, Interim Final Recommendations Draft,

12/08/97

EDR Data Element Example

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The EDR Already Contains

Geopolitical units Mailing and physical addresses Hydrologic unit codes (HUC) Standard Industrial Classification / North

American Industry Classification System (SIC/NAICS) codes

Locational data elements Facility ID standard data elements Chemical standard data elements

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Future Additions to the EDR

EPA-application data elements

Envirofacts

Biological taxonomy data elements

Government Information Locator System (GILS) data elements

Groundwater data elements

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ImplementationIssues and Challenges

Conformance with ISO/IEC 11179

Evolution from original vision to current strategy

Populating the registry

Foreign concept of “reuse”

Long-term resource commitment

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For information please contact:

Marian CodyUS EPA401 M Street, SWWashington, DC 20460

(202) 260-5110cody.marian@.epa.gov

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