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Pursuant
to guidance contained in the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
memorandum of December 16, 2005,
Improving Public Access to and Dissemination of Government
Information and Using the Federal Enterprise Architecture Data
Reference Model
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the MMS strives to organize and categorize our information intended
for public access, make it searchable across other federal agencies,
and use formal information models, such as OMB’s Data Reference
Model (DRM), to assist in information dissemination activities.
Starting in late 2006, the MMS will also review the performance and
results of our information dissemination activities on an annual
basis and will describe the results of this review in an IT
Strategic Plan Performance Results Plan accompanying the next
iteration of our IT Strategic Plan due for publication in early
2007. The current MMS
Information Technology Strategic Plan and Information Guide,
2005-2007
is available for review. The
OMB DRM (along with enhancements made by the Department of the
Interior) describes and categorizes, at an aggregate level, the data
and information supporting the MMS major program and business line
operations - Offshore Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue
Management. The DRM will enable MMS to describe the types of
interaction and exchanges occurring between the Federal government
and you, our customers and stakeholders.
The DRM also establishes a
classification for Federal data and identifies duplicative data
resources. The MMS’ use of a common data model will streamline
information exchange processes within the Federal government and
between government and external stakeholders.
The DRM has three standardization
areas supported by associated information models that will be
detailed in our future version of the MMS Information Technology
Strategic Plan:
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Data Description - provides a means to uniformly describe
data, thereby supporting its discovery and sharing |
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Data Context - facilitates discovery of data through an
approach to the categorization of data according to
categories |
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Data Sharing - supports the access and exchange of data
where access consists of ad-hoc requests and exchange
consists of fixed, re-occurring transactions between parties |
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