1. Local Data Dictionary Development and Issues PDS4 Operational Readiness Review and Acceptance Review 30 November 2011

2. PDS4 IM 2 It all starts with the information model The Current Process

3. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd Protégé or some other entity indistinguishable from Magic 3 Human Readable Form A schema used with all other schema A schema that is the starting point for building a LDD

4. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd DD - Rings rings_ldd.xsd 4 What I want

5. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd Rings IM DD - Rings rings_ldd.xsd 5 What I need

6. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd rings_ldd.xml Protégé "The Red Tool" 6 The Red Tool

7. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd rings_ldd.xml Protégé "The Red Tool" 7 The Red Tool Rings IM rings_ldd.xsd "The Green Tool" The Green Tool Temporary version to continue working with schema

8. PDS4 IM Rings IM 8 What I needed

9. PDS4 IM DD - common dd.xsd Rings IM DD - Rings rings_ldd.xsd Protégé 9 Gives me what I wanted!

10. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd rings_ldd.xml 10 The Red Tool Rings IM rings_ldd.xsd The Green Tool The Provider's Process

11. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd rings_ldd.xml 11 The Red Tool Rings IM rings_ldd.xsd The Green Tool Recommendation 1 Starting with.xsd adds work and complexity for the providers. Replace the generic input schema with a simple template

12. PDS4 IM DD - common Template dd.xsd rings_ldd.xml 12 The Red Tool Rings IM rings_ldd.xsd The Green Tool Recommendation 2 Using an OTS XML editor alone is cumbersome and time consuming. Develop a script to assist completing the template.

13. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd rings_ldd.xml 13 The Red Tool Rings IM rings_ldd.xsd The Green Tool Recommendation 3 The "Green Tool" is a prototype which still has a few bugs and requires a lot of manual intervention. Fix the bugs, adjust for new input format.

14. PDS4 IM DD - common Generic_ldd.xsd dd.xsd rings_ldd.xml 14 The Red Tool Rings IM rings_ldd.xsd The Green Tool Recommendation 4 The "Green Tool" is a prototype which still has a few bugs and requires a lot of manual intervention. Post build 2b – Convert to interactive web service

15. Recommendation 5 Documentation – Provide an updated "how-to" WIKI page. 15