(254a) Staged Electronic Data Deliverable Short Course

The objective of the short course is to familiarize participants with the Staged Electronic Data Deliverable (SEDD). SEDD is now required by certain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) contracts for the electronic reporting and management of environmental analytical data.

The short course is directed to people who are actively involved in the creation, use and implementation of SEDD. These would include personnel from laboratories and vendors who generate electronic deliverables for their clients as well as chemists from government agencies and contractors responsible for the review of data received from laboratories for environmental projects.

Participants are encouraged to bring laptops so that they can view and edit SEDD files as well use some SEDD applications. SEDD files and some applications will be provided.

SEDD is a non proprietary format for the electronic delivery of environmental analytical data and uses the Extensible Markup Language (XML). SEDD is designed to be agency and program neutral. SEDD incorporates a Data Element Dictionary along with a Valid Value list. Under SEDD, an electronic data deliverable from the laboratory is transmitted as an XML document.

Two software applications, the SEDD Parser Tool and the Automated Data Review (ADR) were developed under contract with the USACE Sacramento District in order to capture and review data in a timely and cost efficient manner. The SEDD Parser Tool captures data present in a SEDD file and allows migration of the data to ADR. The ADR software verifies compliance with project-specific data integrity and content rules and performs automated review of the data.

Data movement and storage issues will be discussed, including recent developments allowing transfer of reviewed data and ADR project library information in XML format for portability and long term storage.