XML Registry and Repository for the Education Community Holly Hyland, Federal Student Aid

2 Federal Student Aid: Evolution to the Target State Vision A target state outlines the vision to achieve integration. Business needs drive technology solutions.

3 Federal Student Aid: Data Strategy Purpose  Get the Right Information  To the Right Person  At the Right Time and Place  At the Right Cost Develop an overall approach towards data to ensure that accurate and consistent data is available to and exchanged between Federal Student Aid and our customers, partners, and compliance and oversight organization.

4 The Target State Vision

5 Federal Student Aid Enterprise Data Management Focus –Data Policy and Strategic Planning –Data Administration Data standardization Metadata Management Data Modeling Management Data Governance –Data Architecture Data Conversion/Migration Planning Data Integration Services –Data Warehousing –Data Quality

6 Federal Student Aid Data Management Focus –Data Standards and Guidelines Rules for the creation, replication, storage, and management of data Policies and guidelines to data providers and data users to maintain the integrity of data. –Best Practices for Data Data modeling Data integration Data management Open standards –Data Architecture Artifacts Enterprise Standards and Guidelines Enterprise Data Conceptual Model Enterprise Data Dictionary –Education Community of Interest Collaborative environment for the promotion of standards –Federal Student Aid Co-Chairs DXSC Promote data exchange both internally and externally –XML Registry and Repository for the Education Community

7 Federal Student Aid Data Management Focus – Education Community of Interest –Promote use of common standards across the Education Community of Interest. –Cooperative standards with external parties.

8 FSA Recent Accomplishments –Released the XML Registry and Repository for the Education Community as open-source. –Working with IPEDS on a schema development project using the PESC Process. –Web-based Data Model Repository. –Data Management standards incorporated into the procurement process. –Integration between the XML Registry and Repository for the Education Community and the Federal Student Aid Data Model Repository.

9 Federal Student Aid Future Areas of Focus –Continue to work with the Education Community of Interest to add additional core components to the XML Registry and Repository for the Education Community. –Improve quality, consistency and availability of data for decision- making. –Support Enterprise Data Integration Services Infrastructure that implements our Service Oriented Architecture in the Target State Vision. –Institutionalize Data Quality best practices across the Enterprise. –Strengthen our Data Governance efforts across the Enterprise.

10 Development Steps – Community Derived Identify education-related business process. Contact PESC to register intent. Identify data elements currently in use. Review data elements for clarity and usage. Match data elements with the XML Registry and Repository for Education. Review to ensure compatible elements. Identify new elements. Submit to PESC Submission Advisory Board for review. Develop schema according to business rules and XML Technical Specification. Submit to PESC Change Control Board for final review.

11 XML Registry and Repository URL: Open Source (Public Domain License) URL: Policies and Procedures: procedures.asp

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26 Questions? Holly Hyland, Management Analyst Federal Student Aid