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Reportnet – an introductionReportnet – an introduction

Presentation for the Meeting on Noise

Copenhagen, 12 November 2008

Søren Roug, EEA

2008-11-12

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Agenda for this sessionAgenda for this session

• Overview of Reportnet• Demonstration of reporting• Step-by-step review of automatic QA• Q&A on QA

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Data reporting before Reportnet… Data reporting before Reportnet…

The Public and Decision-Makers

NFP, other National AuthoritiesPCP, NRC

EEA

Bigreport

consultants

ETCACC

ETCBD

ETCWater

CEC Others

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EEA

The Public and Decision-Makers

ETCACC

ETCBD

ETCWater

NFP and other National AuthoritiesPCP, NRC

ESTAT Others

DG ENV, others

Reportnet……and after :-)and after :-)

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What is Reportnet? What is Reportnet?

Reportnet is a system of integrated IT tools and processes creating a shared information infrastructure to support the reporting of environmental dataand information in Europe

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Reportnet modules Reportnet modules Reporting Obligations Database ROD

(A web database of reporting obligations) Data Dictionary DD

(A web database with data element specifications) Data Exchange Modules

(Software tools supporting the delivery process) QA and conversion system Converters

(Tools to evaluate the quality of a delivery) Directory DIR

(A web database of users, organisations and roles) Central Data Repository CDR

(A website to upload reported data, Automatic QA)

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Noise Noise reporting reporting

obligations in obligations in RODROD

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Factsheet on the obligationFactsheet on the obligation

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Definitions in Reportnet Data DictionaryDefinitions in Reportnet Data Dictionary

Example:Agglomerations

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CDR: the data from the countriesCDR: the data from the countries

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Delivery possibilitiesDelivery possibilities

• Uploading office files – Excel, Access etc. – Automatic QA is not possible

• Generate XML from database system and upload

• Filling out webforms – only for small amounts

• Uploading and converting special MS-Excel template

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CDR: delivering DF5CDR: delivering DF5

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Automatic Quality AssuranceAutomatic Quality Assurance

Application of QA scripts(:=============================================================:)(: Rule 1 :)(: Goes through all the Rows in the document and checks if there exist:)(: similar EWN codes in the same document:)(:=============================================================:)

declare function local:checkEWNCode($url as xs:string) { for $pn in fn:distinct-values(fn:doc($url)//dd8:EWN-Code) let $i := fn:doc($url)//dd8:EWN-Code= $pn] where fn:count($i) > 1 order by $pn return <b>{$pn}<br></br></b>};

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Completing the deliveryCompleting the delivery

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What happens after delivery?What happens after delivery?

• Automatic QA is run on all XML files• Delivery is made available to the public• ETC is notified• ETC does manual QA• Potentially ETC rejects the delivery

• Then Reporter is notified and must fix the issues

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Monitoring of data flowsMonitoring of data flows- ROD again- ROD again

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Demonstration of deliveryDemonstration of delivery

• Now Enriko will demonstrate a delivery on the CDR test site

• After the demonstration you will have the opportunity to practice yourself

• The userid for cdrtest.eionet.europa.eu is ’reporter’ – password is ’r’