Larry Fitzwater, U.S. EPA Kathleen Gundry, SAIC January 20, 2000 Open Forum on Metadata Registries Santa Fe, NM SDC JE-2033
Overview l Technology components of SEDES l Role of the Terminology Reference System (TRS) l Role of the Environmental Data Registry (EDR) l Future integration of TRS and EDR l Summary
SDC JE-2033 Technology Components of SEDES
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SDC JE-2033 Vision l Cataloging data and documents l Retrieving Web documents and data elements l Developing data elements l Integrating databases Develop a repository of well-defined environmental concepts as a tool for:
SDC JE-2033 States Currently Participating in SEDES CA OR WA ID MT WY CO NM AK HI OK KS NE SD ND MN IA WI MIMI IN OH KY TN MS AL GA FL SC NC VA WV PA ME NY MD DE NJ CT MA VT NH RI IL MO AR LA NV UT AZ OR NM TX MN MS GA WV PA WA MA MO UT OK WI IN FL NY MD NH AZ NJ
SDC JE-2033 EPA/State Collaboration l Pilot – Hazardous waste clean-up concepts u Partnership with states and tribal entities u Data element development u Search engines u Database integration
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Means any single location, place, tract of land or parcel of property or portion thereof, including contiguous property separated by a public right-of-way. (Section 58.2 of the Act) This term also includes, but is not limited to, all buildings and improvements present at that location, place or tract of land. (State Remediation Program (Title 35, Section ): Definitions) SDC JE-2033
Future of EDR/TRS Integration TRS Terms EDR Data Elements
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Keyword Data Element “Classification Tag” SDC JE-2033
Uses of EDR/TRS Integration Use TRS as: l Source of terms used to classify data elements l Gateway to search data element metadata by keyword
SDC JE-2033 Database Integration l Environmental Data Exchange Network (EDEN) pilot project u Collaboration: DOE, DoD, EPA, EEA u Map heterogeneous hazardous waste databases u Innovative technology
SDC JE-2033 Web Information Retrieval l Web metadata inventory l Search engine u Thesaurus function u Topic sets
SDC JE-2033 Document Retrieval l Cataloging l Indexing l Reference vocabulary
Larry Fitzwater, U.S. EPA Office of Environmental Information Tel: (202) Discussion SDC JE-2033