Getting Ready for STEVE Mapping Tools for STEVE William R. Bolton, Jr. State Registrar and Director Division of Vital Records Administration New Hampshire Department of State

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 NHVRINweb Development NHVRINweb = New Hampshire Vital Records Information Network web Real-time birth, death, marriage and divorce WDQS project involving NH DVRA/NCHS/Constella partnership 10/30/07 implementation

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 NHVRINweb Development 3 part development Presentation layer Database layer ETL Tool Extraction, Translation (into IJE format) and Load (into an ODS) Scripting Engine Viewer for viewing IJE data Dovetails nicely with STEVE

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 NHVRINweb Development ETL tool as originally specified was derailed due to problematic DBA NH ETL tool was developed specifically for Oracle DB Could be shared, but presently tailored to NH Oracle database Time consuming to further modify for useful software tool

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 Current State Issues Multiple Source Database Platforms Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL Varying Source Database Designs Complex & limited sharing of crosswalk and transformation data and code

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 ETL Application

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 Components & Features Embedded Database Transformation data & crosswalks Transformation data management Import & Export Provides support for sharing and maintaining transformation data

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 Components & Features Scripting Engine Transparent Easy code sharing Not a black box Full featured C# language Libraries for accessing, managing & validating IJE formatted data Colocated reference information is used to verify that translation worked correctly

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 Components & Features Management UI Scheduling Connection management Rule & crosswalk editing Reporting & Logging

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Piggy-back on work already done Generic version ETL is 1/3 to 1/2 done Estimated 1-3 months to complete development Need test environments at several states

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Options for Integration Based on Registration Area’s Level of Comfort: Use local IT staff to integrate and maintain ETL Use developer to integrate tool and local IT staff can maintain Use developer to integrate and maintain

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Likely savings in level of effort if states with similar software are able to partner with ETL configuration Single ETL will benefit ease of incorporating future IJE modifications Ancillary Benefit – WDQS

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Investigate Alternatives Registration areas already report an IJE-Lite file to NCHS Registration area may be able to use DTS tools that SQL Server provides Registration area may use current EBR/EDR software developer to further develop output files

2008 NAPHSIS Annual Meeting Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence Orlando, FL June 1 st – 5 th, 2008 Questions? William R. Bolton, Jr. State Registrar and Director Division of Vital Records Administration New Hampshire Department of State