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Maintenance of the Standard
Module 7 of the On-line Course:
Learning the Cadastral Data Content Standard
Module 7 describes current information on how to propose
and track changes to the Cadastral Data Content Standard.
Topics in Module 7:
The Cadastral Data Content Standard Maintenance Plan is described
in section 1.6 of the Standard. The FGDC Subcommittee on Cadastral Data
will manage the maintenance of the Standard. The maintenance process will
result in updates to domains of values as needed to meet users needs.
Changes made to any Standard, after the Standard has been
accepted and implemented, can lead to very complex database changes and
re-designs for each office which has implemented the Standard in a physical
data base.
The sections below summarize the Maintenance Plan. To
read the entire plan, go to Maintenance
Plan. Or, to download a copy of the Maintenance Plan from
the Fairview Industries Web site, go to Fairview's
ftp page for cadastral information.
Requests
Requests related to the Cadastral Data Content Standard
may be for a variety of actions and may come from a variety of sources.
The Subcommittee is actively soliciting requests from active cadastral
standard testing and development projects. Requests will be encouraged
from published papers, presentations, Internet queries, direct mail, or
any other source. Members of the Subcommittee may submit requests also.
The Subcommittee has identified the following types of
requests that may be submitted.
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Discrepancy Report - A discrepancy report indicates that
the standard incorrectly represents cadastral data, has an error in a relationship,
has an incorrect entity, or has an incorrect attribute within an entity.
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Statement of Need - A statement of need indicates that the
standard needs additional explanatory material, needs an additional value
added to a domain of values, or some other statement for augmentation of
the standard.
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Explanatory Materials - A request for explanatory materials
is additional education about the intent or meaning of an entity, attribute,
relationship, or domain value in the Standard.
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Other Requests - Any other request for information or presentations
falls into the other request category. This may include but is not limited
to typographical or editorial corrections.
See the Cadastral Data Content Standard .
Submitting Requests
An agency or office engaged in a physical implementation
of the Standard may find a need to add their own information that is not
included in the Standard. It is foreseen that each agency would make their
own additions for their purposes alone. If they then consider that their
additions would be pertinent to the Federal Standard, then they would communicate
their additions to the Subcommittee on Cadastral Data.
The Cadastral Maintenance Subgroup will review all requests
on a quarterly basis. The reviews may occur more frequently if there are
a large number of requests, but at least once per quarter, at the beginning
of the quarter, the Cadastral maintenance Subgroup will review requests.
Requests for change to the standard contain:
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Date of Request
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Standard Date
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Type Of Maintenance
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Page Number Or Section Reference
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Title Of Request For Maintenance
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Description of the Request Maintenance
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Suggested Action
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Page or Subject Area Reference
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Contact Information
To request maintenance on the Cadastral Data Content Standard,
go to the Cadastral
Maintenance Form.
Tracking Requests
On a regular basis, which will be monthly in the first year,
the Request Coordinator will compile the requests, organize them into a
database, conduct a preliminary analysis on a potential response or a suite
of responses, and forward the requests on to the Cadastral Maintenance
Subgroup.
The Subcommittee has a contact database for tracking requests.
Each request receives a tracking number when it is entered into the database.
The dates and actions related to the request are tracked through the request's
life cycle. The database will track significant events.
Results will be developed into a frequently asked questions
(FAQ) list that will be posted to the cadastral Internet sites.
Version Control of the Standard
Current practice is to indicate Versions of the Standard
by their date.
Change Management Process
Changes to the Standard will follow the Federal Geographic
Data Committee (FGDC) Standard Working Group (SWG) procedures for standard
modification. For changes that involve clarification, additional explanatory
material, or grammatical construction, the standard revision would not
affect implementation sites and could be made without a full review of
the entire standard.
If the changes are substantial or could impact an implementation
of the standard, than the revisions would go through the same steps as
the original standard review in the FGDC Standard Development Process.
Changes Currently Proposed
To see examples of proposed changes to the Standard, go to
the FGDC Cadastral
Standard Maintenance page.
Examples of Changes
For examples, look for the changes files on Fairview's ftp
page for cadastral information.
This ends Course Module 7. Use the links below to return
to the top of this page, or to go on to Module 8, or any of the other Modules.
Links to the Course Modules: [Quick
Reference] [Introduction]
[Module
1: Purpose and Benefits of the Cadastral Data Content Standard] [Module
2: How the Standard Was Developed] [Module
3: Other Standards and Related Activities] [Module
4: Data Modeling Techniques, Rules and Diagram Conventions] [Module
5: Crosswalks, Translations, and Examples] [Module
6: Understanding Compliance with the Standard] [Module
7: Maintenance of the Standard] [Module
8: User and Technical Support] [County
Recorder Module] [GIS
Specialist Module] [Surveyor
Module] [Glossary]
Learning the Cadastral Data Content Standard
Presented by the United States Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management, and
the Federal Geographic Data Committee Cadastral Subcommittee