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ISO/IEC 11179
Metadata Registry
Implementations
Larry Fitzwater
[email protected]
11179 Metadata Consortium
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Address ISO/IEC-11179 reference
implementations of metadata registries
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Influence commercial vendors
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Develop methods to support metadata
exchange
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Share information and lessons learned
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Provide clearinghouse for issues
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Develop partnerships to support data
management across organizations
Coalition Members
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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
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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
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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
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MetaPro
Census
and
Survey
Design
Surveys/Census
Survey Instances
Questionnaires
Questions
Skip Patterns
Valid Responses
Data Elements
Valid Values
NAICS
Product Codes
Data
Collection
Sample Techniques
Frames
Universes
Data
Processing
Datasets
Data Elements
Valid Values
Recodes
Formulas
Geography
Data
Dissemination
Subject Areas
Keywords
Classification
Schemes
Publications
CMR Model
Supports:
- Survey Business
MD
- Technical MD
- Business Rules
Technical MD: systems, applications, data stores, location of data,
columns, data types... BRs: integrity, data quality, validation, edits,
disclosure avoidance… Admin: Orgs, Contacts, Sponsors
Corporate M E T A D A T A Repository
- ISO/IEC 11179 Std.
-BOC SDSM Std.
- Exec Order 12906
FGDC CSDGM Std.
MetaPro
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Allows users to create their own
metadata registries
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Designed to foster exchange of
metadata
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Encourages reuse of metadata
attributes of data elements and value
domains
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Will include a data file exchange
capability