R O S E T T A ENHANCING DATA QUALITY BY STANDARDISATION OF DATA ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE

Herbert Desel & Martin Ganzert 1

R O S E T T A ENHANCING DATA QUALITY BY STANDARDISATION OF

DATA ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE

Herbert Desel1 & Martin Ganzert2

1Poison Centre GIZ-Nord, Göttingen,2Poison Centre Munich, Munich, Germany


Introduction High quality consumer product data is an

important information source for every poison centre’s work.

To achieve high data quality continous work on data is necessary in companies and in poison centres.

Experience: Data exchange is critical interface standardisation is important for data

quality (validity)


1996: Data quality improvement EAPCCT and several European

industry organisations (AIS:FIFE:FEA) worked on European harmonisation of data structures for exchange of consumer product data

and published:


The EAPCCT Consumer

Product Format


EAPCCT-Newsletter April 1996


EAPCCT-Product Information Form


Guidelines for Product Information Form


Guidelines for Product Information Form II




EAPCCT-Product Information Form II


ExperienceSince 1996, the harmonised format has been

frequently used in Europe and became the accepted standard for

consumer product data exchange data collections in European poison

centres are frequently used as valuable tool for daily work

and may be used in future …


Recent developments Meanwhile, … changes in the market of consumer

products have become faster, with increasing computer power in

PCs and companies increasing opportunities of secure

electronic data exchange the need for an electronic data

exchange is rising.


Research Project TDI www.tdi-network.org

a computer network is constructed that allows quick exchange of product data between

companies and poison centresand even between poison centres and other poison

centres


TDI : Advantage for industrythe company

serves one poison centres

PC1

C1

the „primary centre“ serves other poison

centres

PC PC PC PCPC

… in an electronic way

All PCs should be able to read all data and identify the data origin (“electronic endorsement”)

This is realised using a standardized electronic data format


ROSETTA


TDI - Data Acquisition and Data Transfer

Product data is collected using the EAPCCT format

ROSETTA is used to transfer data between different computer systems


ROSETTA is used to describe all data for transfer between different computer

systems

TDI - Data Acquisition

and Data Transfer product data is collected

according to the EAPCCT format

control data

company data is added (important for identification of

authorship)

control data is included in an automatic way


ROSETTA file

ROSETTA file structure

for a technically interested audience

company addresses and identification numbers

(one address per package mandatory) external reference

lists (2) of addresses maintained by national

institutions

product data (0, 1, or more products)

internal reference: product linked to at least one company indicating

authorshipproducer distributor

(whole) data file - logistics

values of quality parameters - evaluation


TDI Project‘s Work The ROSETTA format

has been designed.

ROSETTA was tested using …

a newly developed data acquisition program (EMIL) and

an import programme connected to the TDI project's local databases

EMIL TDIROSETTA

data package


ROSETTA Format Description - Basics

The data format “XMLROSETTA” was developed

using XML “language rules” (meta format) to describe the structural elements this enables easy description of the

format and formal check of data quality

with standard tools freely available by the data sender or by PC


ROSETTA – Document Type Definition (DTD)



<!ELEMENT rosetta (file,product*,adress+,evaluation)>

<!ELEMENT file (logistics_of_file)>

<!ELEMENT logistics_of_file (rosetta_version_sender_system,sender,file_created)><!ELEMENT rosetta_version_sender_system

(rosetta_version,constants_version,system_name,system_version)><!ELEMENT rosetta_version (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT constants_version (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT system_name (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT system_version (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT sender (sender_reference_type,sender_id)><!ELEMENT sender_reference_type (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT sender_id (#PCDATA)>

<!ELEMENT file_created (file_timestamp)>


ROSETTA – DTD (cont.)<!ELEMENT product

(identification_of_product,physical_chemical_properties?,legal_data,packaging?,general_data,category?,product_document_version,constituent+)>

<!ELEMENT identification_of_product (logistics_of_product,name_date_numbers,manufacturer,distributor)> <!ELEMENT logistics_of_product (type_of_product_format,product_id_of_author)><!ELEMENT type_of_product_format (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT product_id_of_author (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT name_date_numbers (product_name,release_date,article_number?,ubanr_product?,ean_list?)><!ELEMENT product_name (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT release_date (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT article_number (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT ubanr_product (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT ean_list (#PCDATA)>.........


Further technical information

The complete ROSETTA format is published on the project's website

www.tdi-network.orgfor easy access by everybody

interested. An additional monograph “ROSETTA - rules for application” in German is available from the project’s German

language website


Conclusion: Requirements for electronic

product data exchange (using the EAPCCT format) between independent institutions have been fulfilled by ROSETTA

ROSETTA is prepared international data exchange.

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