1. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Reusable Component Services RCS Demo to 02/27/2013 John Harman, Harman.John@epa.govHarman.John@epa.gov Lico Galindo, Galindo.lico@epa.govGalindo.lico@epa.gov

2. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Slide 2 Part of the System of Registries

3. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Slide 3 Purpose of RCS Catalog or Registry of IT components, services and tools of interest to EPA, Exchange Network partners, States, Tribes, developers, and others Provides a single interface by which users can search for existing IT assets Leverages and maximizes investments by reducing redundant development Includes asset types such as XML schema, widget tools, Web services, software tools, databases, programming code, data models, and others. Systems and applications that take advantage of RCS can be developed more quickly, at a higher quality, and at a lower cost Adds meaning and value by showing relationships among assets and classifying them in taxonomies Goal is to become the agency hub for applications, services and data

4. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Slide 4 Principles No redundant registration or entry Owner decides level of sharing Many metadata attributes, few mandatory Registration in any phase of the development life cycle Re-use may occur at many levels, including: –Full re-use –Modification of existing asset –Ideas, Best practices, lessons learned

5. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Slide 5 Current Status In production since Summer 2010 – Public and partner interfaces Many Web services, widgets and other EPA assets loaded 800+ XML schema and schema components loaded from the Exchange Network Automatic harvesting from READ (systems and ORD models) – Systems, models Automatic harvesting from the Environmental Dataset Gateway (EDG) - datasets Automatic harvesting from the Exchange Network Discovery Service (ENDS) and the Exchange Network website – Dataflows and web services Future automatic harvesting from DERS (Data Element Data Registry) – Data Dictionaries, Code Sets Future interface with tool for Agency Canonical Model Future interface with Schema workbench for easier dataflow creation

6. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Slide 6 Current Activities Reaching out to EPA Program Offices and Regional Offices, States and other partners New asset types, including mobile apps, linked datasets. Working with Program Offices and OARM to work RCS into contract language Looking to make RCS part of CPIC and ADC process Establishing governance, workflow and quality processes Demonstrating new easier, faster and more powerful search interface Showing RCS widget in Developers Dashboard and other agency web pages Starting to explore federation or connections with other agencies

7. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY For Conference Use Only | Page 7 RCS Physical Connections DERSENDSREADEDGAsset Stewards Data Diction aries EN services Systems Data sets Data Exchan ges Data Models Code datab ases APIs Web Services S/W Tools EN Grants Developer Central EDGEASOA Web services New EN Developm ent New EPA Developm ent Data.gov EN Web pages EPA web pages EN Public mobile apps

8. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY For Conference Use Only | Page 8 RCS Logical Connections System Web service Dataset Data Dictionary XML Schema Data Model Software Tool Widget tool Mobile Tool Commer cial Tool Related to generates uses structuremeaning Used for Part of Included in

9. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Slide 9 RCS Demo DEMO