FSA Systems Integration

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XML Registry and Repository for the Education
Community

Holly Hyland, Federal Student Aid
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Federal Student Aid Evolution to the Target
State Vision

• A target state outlines the vision to achieve
  integration.
• Business needs drive technology solutions.

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Federal Student AidData Strategy Purpose
Develop an overall approach towards data to
ensure that accurate and consistent data is
available to and exchanged between Federal
Student Aid and our customers, partners, and
compliance and oversight organization.

• Get the Right Information
• To the Right Person
• At the Right Time and Place
• At the Right Cost

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The Target State Vision
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Federal Student AidEnterprise Data Management
Focus

• Data Policy and Strategic Planning
• Data Administration
• Data standardization
• Metadata Management
• Data Modeling Management
• Data Governance
• Data Architecture
• Data Conversion/Migration Planning
• Data Integration Services
• Data Warehousing
• Data Quality

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Federal Student AidData Management Focus

• Data Standards and Guidelines
• Rules for the creation, replication, storage, and
  management of data
• Policies and guidelines to data providers and
  data users to maintain the integrity of data.
• Best Practices for Data
• Data modeling
• Data integration
• Data management
• Open standards
• Data Architecture Artifacts
• Enterprise Standards and Guidelines
• Enterprise Data Conceptual Model
• Enterprise Data Dictionary
• Education Community of Interest
• Collaborative environment for the promotion of
  standards
• Federal Student Aid Co-Chairs DXSC
• Promote data exchange both internally and
  externally
• XML Registry and Repository for the Education
  Community

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Federal Student Aid Data Management Focus
Education Community of Interest

• Promote use of common standards across the
  Education Community of Interest.
• Cooperative standards with external parties.

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FSA Recent Accomplishments

• Released the XML Registry and Repository for the
  Education Community as open-source.
• Working with IPEDS on a schema development
  project using the PESC Process.
• Web-based Data Model Repository.
• Data Management standards incorporated into the
  procurement process.
• Integration between the XML Registry and
  Repository for the Education Community and the
  Federal Student Aid Data Model Repository.

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Federal Student Aid Future Areas of Focus

• Continue to work with the Education Community of
  Interest to add additional core components to the
  XML Registry and Repository for the Education
  Community.
• Improve quality, consistency and availability of
  data for decision-making.
• Support Enterprise Data Integration Services
  Infrastructure that implements our Service
  Oriented Architecture in the Target State Vision.
  
• Institutionalize Data Quality best practices
  across the Enterprise.
• Strengthen our Data Governance efforts across the
  Enterprise.

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Development Steps Community Derived

• Identify education-related business process.
• Contact PESC to register intent.
• Identify data elements currently in use.
• Review data elements for clarity and usage.
• Match data elements with the XML Registry and
  Repository for Education.
• Review to ensure compatible elements.
• Identify new elements.
• Submit to PESC Submission Advisory Board for
  review.
• Develop schema according to business rules and
  XML Technical Specification.
• Submit to PESC Change Control Board for final
  review.

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XML Registry and Repository

• URL www.fsaxmlregistry.ed.gov
• Open Source (Public Domain License) URL
  http//fsaxmlregistry.sourceforge.net/
• Policies and Procedures
• http//www.pesc.org/info/policies-procedures.asp

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Questions?

• Holly Hyland, Management Analyst
• Federal Student Aid
• 202.377.3710
• Holly.Hyland_at_ed.gov