Discovering Environmental Information Resources

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:

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.

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