[Federal Register: April 20, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 77)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC); Public Review of the
Address Data Content Standard
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The FGDC is conducting a public review of the draft Address
Data Content Standard. An interagency team under the FGDC Subcommittee
on Cultural & Demographic Data developed this draft standard over
several years and the FGDC Coordination Group comprised of
representatives from Federal agencies approved releasing this standard
for public review. The FGDC invites software vendors and data users and
producers in public and private sectors to comment on this standard to
ensure that the standard meets their needs.
Comments that address specific issues/changes/additions may result
in revisions to the draft NSDI Address Data Content Standard. After
comments have been evaluated, participants will receive notification of
how their comments were addressed. After formal endorsement of the
standard by the FGDC, the standard and a summary analysis of the
changes will be made available to the public.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 22, 2001.
ADDRESSES: The draft standard may be downloaded via Internet address
http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/sub2__4.html
Request for printed copies of the standard should be addressed to
``Address Data Content Standard,'' FGDC Secretariat (attn: Julie Binder
Maitra), U.S. Geological Survey, 590 National Center, 12201 Sunrise
Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia 20192 or facsimile 703-648-5755 or
Internet at jmaitra@usgs.gov.
Reviewer's comments may be sent to FGDC via Internet mail to gdc-
address@www.fgdc.gov. Reviewer's comments may also be sent to the FGDC
Secretariat at the above postal address. Please send one hardcopy
version of the comments and a softcopy version on 3.5-inch diskette in
Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. All reviewers are strongly urged to
use the template for sending comments that may be downloaded from
Internet address http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/directives/dir2d.html
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following is information about the draft
Address Data Content Standard, submitted by the FGDC Subcommittee on
Cultural and Demographic Data (SCDD):
Addresses are widely used by many organizations. Addresses
reference and uniquely identify particular points of interest, are used
to access and deliver information to specific locations, and can serve
as the basis for aggregating data by location.
Many organizations maintain address lists or have databases and
datasets that contain addresses. Organizations typically have detailed
specifications about the structure of their address information but
documentation about the content of the address information is limited.
Knowledge of both structure and content is required to successfully
share information.
The purpose of this standard is to facilitate the sharing of
address information. The Address Data Content Standard (the Standard)
accomplishes this by providing a method for documenting the content of
address information and simplifies the documentation process by
recognizing some commonly used discrete units of address information.
Objective: The objective of the Standard is to provide a method for
documenting the content of address information. The Standard is a
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) data usability standard. Data
usability standards describe how to express the applicability or
essence of a dataset or data element and include data quality,
assessment, accuracy, and reporting or documentation standards.
The Standard additionally standardizes some commonly used discrete
units of address information, referred to as ``descriptive elements''.
It provides standardized terms and their definitions to alleviate
inconsistencies in the use of the descriptive elements and to simplify
the documentation process.
Scope: The Standard establishes the requirements for documenting
the content of addresses.
The Standard is applicable to addresses that reference and uniquely
identify particular points of interest. The standard is applicable to
the following address types: geographic, mailing, or physical. It
specifically excludes electronic addresses.
The Standard is applicable to shared addresses. The Standard does
not require addresses be shared and does not provide guidelines for
determining whether addresses can be shared. Some organizations cannot
share addresses or some part of address information due to requirements
for confidentiality and security. However, the principles of the
Standard can be extended to all addresses, including addresses
maintained within an organization that are not shared.
Applicability: Data producers or maintainers shall comply with the
requirements of the Standard when they share their address information
with data users.
The Standard places no requirement on internal organization use of
address data.
Dated: April 11, 2001.
Karen Siderelis,
Geographic Information Officer.
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