ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry Implementations

Larry Fitzwaterfitzwater.larry@epa.gov

11179 Metadata Consortium

Address ISO/IEC-11179 reference implementations of metadata registries

Influence commercial vendors Develop methods to support metadata

exchange Share information and lessons learned Provide clearinghouse for issues Develop partnerships to support data

management across organizations

Coalition Members

Bureau of Labor Statistics Bureau of the Census Dept. of Defense

Defense Information Systems Agency

Environmental Security Health Affairs

Dept. of Energy Dept. of Justice National Institutes of Health

Dept. of Transportation Dept. of Veteran Affairs Environmental

Protection Agency Health Care Financing

Administration National Institute of

Standards and Technology

Federal Aviation Administration

Relevant Registries

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare United States Health Information

Knowledgebase (USHIK) sponsored by Health Care financing Administration (HCFA) and DoD – Health Affairs

Corporate Metadata Repository (CMR) by Census

Veterans Administration Environmental Data Registry

MetaPro

Censusand

SurveyDesign

Censusand

SurveyDesign

DataCollection

DataCollection

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

DataDissemin-

ation

DataDissemin-

ation

Corporate M E T A D A T A RepositoryCorporate M E T A D A T A Repository

Surveys/CensusSurvey InstancesQuestionnairesQuestionsSkip PatternsValid ResponsesData ElementsValid ValuesNAICSProduct Codes

Sample TechniquesFramesUniverses

DatasetsData ElementsValid ValuesRecodesFormulasGeography

Subject AreasKeywordsClassification SchemesPublications

Technical MD: systems, applications, data stores, location of data,columns, data types... BRs: integrity, data quality, validation, edits, disclosure avoidance… Admin: Orgs, Contacts, Sponsors

CMR Model Supports:

- Survey Business MD

- Technical MD

- Business Rules

- ISO/IEC 11179 Std.

-BOC SDSM Std.

- Exec Order 12906 FGDC CSDGM Std.

MetaPro

Allows users to create their own metadata registries

Designed to foster exchange of metadata Encourages reuse of metadata attributes

of data elements and value domains Will include a data file exchange

capability