System Inventory Services (formerly called the Registry of EPA Applications, Models and Datasets, or READ) is the authoritative source of information about EPA information resources.
Each information resource has a record in READ. Each record identifies if the information resource is an application/system, a dataset, or a model. The record also includes basic information about the resource such as:
- Title
- Acronym
- Description
- Contact information
- Organization that owns or operates it
More detailed information also is available in a READ record, such as whether the resource supports a particular Governmental statute and, in the case of an application/system, how the application/system conforms to the Enterprise Architecture (EA). Life cycle information, user types, and access information are other data that can be found in a READ record.