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E-PRTR data flows in aShared Environmental Information System

2008-12-02

Norbert Pfaffinger

IT Business Analysis

Federal Environment Agency Austria

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Contents

1. Overview of Data Flows in the National PRTR Application

2. Overview of Interoperability efforts taken

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PRTR data flows within AT

• Just 1 National Web Application (no interfaces to subsidiary data sources, though interfaces to sibling national applications)

• Operators of PRTR relevant facilities log in to enter data via GUI

• Regional and national authorities log in to validate data

• National PRTR register embedded within the “EDM” (Electronic Data Management for the Environmental Sector; run by the Ministry)

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Master data registry

for persons

and installations

eRAS

EDM PORTAL

EDM PORTAL

eCERTIFICATE

eHW-TRANSPORT

eCOMPOSTeMASS-

BALANCE

eINCINERATION

eLANDFILL

ePERMITS

eEoL-VEHICLES

eWEEE

ePRTR

eSHIPMENT

Single sign on access to apps

Applications

AT Application Landscape for PRTR:Embedding within EDM

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EDM Program in the Ministry

“EZG“

“HFKW“

“EMREG-OG“

ePRTR

“Strahlenregister“

Portaledm.gv.at

Dataharmonization

Master Data Reg.eRAS

Overallarchitecture

eReporting

Helpdesk

EDM Waste Management Portfolio

eIncinerationeWEEE

eHW-Transport

eBatteriesePackaging

eEoL-Vehicles

eShipment

eMass-Balance

eLandfill

ePermits

eCertificateeCompost

Embedding within EDM:AT Task Chart

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Emission Certificate

PRTR

AT PRTR Application Interfaces

Master data registry (parties, installations, …)

Reference List Register

Waste Mass Balance

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3

4

1 2& :

Real time access to data (not copied)

3 :Option to use data from other reports (copied)

4 : XML export for EU reporting. Parameters approx the same, time frames the same as with collected data

<xml>Commercial

Register

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5 : Daily update from Austrian Commercial Register Automated update query upload (XML, FTP, copied)

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General Interoperability Principles the AT PRTR Register “inherits” from the EDM

• Use of a common master data register, for parties, facilities, installations, etc.

• Use of GS1 GLNs for the identification of anything registered in the master data register â next slides

• Use of a common reference list register (for lists of countries, pollutants, types of waste, etc.) â next slides

• Data models built according to UN/CEFACT methodology using components from the UN/CEFACT Core Component Library (CCL) (some EDM related data models handed in for standardisation, esp. for Transboundary Movements of Waste – Basel Convention – EUDIN project) â next slides

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Identification of Master Data Objects via GS1 GLN

What are GLNs?

• GS1 (“Global Standards”) is a standardisation organisation with worldwide relevance, active in the field of electronic data exchange

• “Global Location Numbers” (“GLNs”) are a GS1 standard: A common identification for physical locations and legal entities

• Allow for Interoperability, they allow to re-identify objects that are administrated in different places - they prevent the need to assign objects from different sources to each other manually or by heuristic algorithms

• Are the basis for the Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) – known from barcodes

• Integrate neatly with UN/CEFACT standards â next slides

Master data registry (parties, installations, …)

How do GLNs get used in the Austrian EDM / PRTR?

• Readily assigned GLNs (GLNs previously requested from GS1) can be used as IDs for parties, facilities, installations, etc.

• Automatic assignment of new GLNs when registering objects: Automatically assigned GLNs are restricted for the use within the EDM

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Reference List Register

• Common reference list register for the various EDM apps

• No redundancy, any number of languages supported

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Reference List Register:Historisation

• Transparent changes / history

• Transparency on what’s valid for any given point of time

Consolidated view of all entries, old & new

Individual view of entries valid during a given period of time

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Reference List Register:Consolidated View of a List

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Data models:Approach to Interoperability

A B C D

Standard: Library of semantic components

Message models assembled from library components

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Standards for Interoperability: Status Quo

Worldwide Standard: Library of semantic components

UN/CEFACT Core Component Library (CCL)

• United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business

• Initial publication in 2006

• Since then bi-annual update (extension)

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UN/CEFACT Data Modelling Methodology

Context-Independent Context-Specific

Syntax-Independent

Syntax-Specific

Core Components Business Information Entities

Message Format Specification (such as XML Schema Definition)

Message Structure

1 2

3

4

1 2& published in Core Component Library

3 currently not published

4 published separately (XSDs, EDIFACT)

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UN/CEFACT Core Component LibraryExample Components

UN/CEFACT Core Component Library (CCL)

Basing a new message model,such as for the Environmental Sector, on the CCL:

• Typically many components from the CCL can be reused

• Typically some new components will have to be defined

ExampleComponents:

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VolumeMeasure

MassMeasure

Quantity

Description

Name

TypeCode

ID

Goods

UN/CEFACT Data Modelling MethodologyHow CCs and BIEs relate

Two main principles:

1. „pick what you need“

(other way to see it: „discard what you do not need“)

2. „qualify“

NetMassMeasure

GrossMassMeasure

ID

Goods

MassMeasure

ID

Goods

Core Component (CC)

Business Information Entity (BIE)

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UN/CEFACT CCLMost commonly used Components

Name Description

Period A period of time

Party A person or organisation

Location Coordinates, etc.

Address Street name, building number, country, etc.

Cost Monetary amount, etc.

Document Document

Communication Telephone, Fax, E-Mail, Website Address, etc.

Organization Organisation

Contact Contact

Country Country

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AT PRTR Summary

• National register / central system

• Reporting by facility operators

• Data distribution: So far to EU E-PRTR only

• Detail of data collected: Similar to detail of data reported, except for data taken from other reports (waste mass balance, etc.)

• Time frames for collecting: The same as for reporting (annual)

• Technical: Web Application, GUI, real time master data and reference data access encapsulated via Java API (internally using JDBC), use of data from other reports via Webservices (SOAP)

• Integrated into single window approach for Environmental Sector – “EDM”

• Interoperability an objective that has been taken much care of (data structures – UN/CEFACT, IDs - GLNs, reference lists, etc.)

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E-PRTR data flows in a Shared Environmental Information System

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norbert.pfaffinger@umweltbundesamt.at

Thank you!

Comments and questions are welcome:

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(Online) Forms and/or

Electronic data exchange interfaces

1. Domain Model2. Harmonised Model3. Database model

Appendix Slide:

Data Modelling: Process & Results

Not visible to users

Visible to users

Main result: UML class diagram in domain terminology

Main result: UML class diagram composed of reusable components

Main results: Typically XML Schema plus Interface Specification Document (PDF)