Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert1 R O S E T T A ENHANCING DATA QUALITY BY STANDARDISATION OF DATA ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE Herbert Desel 1 & Martin Ganzert 2 1 Poison Centre GIZ-Nord, Göttingen, 2 Poison Centre Munich, Munich, Germany

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert2 Introduction High quality consumer product data is an important information source for every poison centre’s work. To achieve high data quality continous work on data is necessary  in companies  and in poison centres. Experience: Data exchange is critical interface  standardisation is important for data quality (validity)

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert3 1996: Data quality improvement EAPCCT and several European industry organisations (AIS:FIFE:FEA) worked on European harmonisation of data structures for exchange of consumer product data and published:

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert4 The EAPCCT Consumer Product Format

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert5 EAPCCT-Newsletter April 1996

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert6 EAPCCT-Product Information Form

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert7 Guidelines for Product Information Form

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert8 Guidelines for Product Information Form II

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Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert11 EAPCCT-Product Information Form II

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert12 Experience Since 1996, the harmonised format has been frequently used in Europe and became the accepted standard for consumer product data exchange data collections in European poison centres are frequently used as valuable tool for daily work and may be used in future …

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert13 Recent developments Meanwhile, … changes in the market of consumer products have become faster, with increasing computer power in PCs and companies increasing opportunities of secure electronic data exchange the need for an electronic data exchange is rising.

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert14 Research Project TDI a computer network is constructed that allows quick exchange of product data between companies and poison centres and even between poison centres and other poison centres

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert15 TDI : Advantage for industry the company serves one poison centres PC1 C1 the „primary centre“ serves other poison centres PC … in an electronic way All PCs should be able to read all data and identify the data origin (“electronic endorsement”) This is realised using a standardized electronic data format

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert16 ROSETTA

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert17 TDI - Data Acquisition and Data Transfer Product data is collected using the EAPCCT format ROSETTA is used to transfer data between different computer systems

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert18 ROSETTA is used to describe all data for transfer between different computer systems TDI - Data Acquisition and Data Transfer product data is collected according to the EAPCCT format control data company data is added (important for identification of authorship) control data is included in an automatic way

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert19 ROSETTA file ROSETTA file structure for a technically interested audience company addresses and identification numbers (one address per package mandatory) external reference lists (2) of addresses maintained by national institutions product data (0, 1, or more products) internal reference: product linked to at least one company indicating authorship producer distributor (whole) data file - logistics values of quality parameters - evaluation

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert20 TDI Project‘s Work The ROSETTA format has been designed. ROSETTA was tested using … a newly developed data acquisition program (EMIL) and an import programme connected to the TDI project's local databases EMIL TDI ROSETTA data package

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert21 ROSETTA Format Description - Basics The data format “ XML ROSETTA” was developed using XML “language rules” (meta format) to describe the structural elements  this enables easy description of the format  and formal check of data quality  with standard tools freely available  by the data sender or by PC

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert22 ROSETTA – Document Type Definition (DTD)

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert23 ROSETTA – DTD (cont.)...

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert24 Further technical information The complete ROSETTA format is published on the project's website for easy access by everybody interested. An additional monograph “ROSETTA - rules for application” in German is available from the project’s German language website

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert25 Conclusion: Requirements for electronic product data exchange (using the EAPCCT format) between independent institutions have been fulfilled by ROSETTA ROSETTA is prepared international data exchange.