getting ready for steve mapping tools for steve william r. bolton, jr. state registrar and director...

Getting Ready for STEVE

Mapping Tools for STEVE

William R. Bolton, Jr.State Registrar and DirectorDivision of Vital Records AdministrationNew Hampshire Department of State

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

NHVRINweb Development

NHVRINweb = New Hampshire Vital Records Information Network web http://nhvrinweb.sos.nh.gov

Real-time birth, death, marriage and divorce WDQS

2005-2007 project involving NH DVRA/NCHS/Constella partnership

10/30/07 implementation

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

NHVRINweb Development

3 part development Presentation layer Database layer ETL Tool

• Extraction, Translation (into IJE format) and Load (into an ODS)

• Scripting Engine• Viewer for viewing IJE data• Dovetails nicely with STEVE

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

NHVRINweb Development

ETL tool as originally specified was derailed due to problematic DBA

NH ETL tool was developed specifically for Oracle DB

Could be shared, but presently tailored to NH Oracle database

Time consuming to further modify for useful software tool

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

Current State Issues

Multiple Source Database Platforms Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Varying Source Database Designs Complex & limited sharing of

crosswalk and transformation data and code

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

ETL Application

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

Components & Features

Embedded Database Transformation data & crosswalks Transformation data management Import & Export

• Provides support for sharing and maintaining transformation data

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

Components & Features

Scripting Engine Transparent

• Easy code sharing• Not a black box

Full featured C# language Libraries for accessing, managing &

validating IJE formatted data• Colocated reference information is used to

verify that translation worked correctly

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

Components & Features

Management UI Scheduling Connection management Rule & crosswalk editing Reporting & Logging

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Piggy-back on work already done Generic version ETL is 1/3 to 1/2

done Estimated 1-3 months to complete

development Need test environments at several

states

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Options for Integration Based on

Registration Area’s Level of Comfort: Use local IT staff to integrate and

maintain ETL Use developer to integrate tool and

local IT staff can maintain Use developer to integrate and

maintain

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Likely savings in level of effort if

states with similar software are able to partner with ETL configuration

Single ETL will benefit ease of incorporating future IJE modifications

Ancillary Benefit – WDQS

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

That’s Nice; but Where Do We Go From Here? Investigate Alternatives

Registration areas already report an IJE-Lite file to NCHS

Registration area may be able to use DTS tools that SQL Server provides

Registration area may use current EBR/EDR software developer to further develop output files

2008 NAPHSIS Annual MeetingCelebrating 75 Years of ExcellenceOrlando, FL June 1st – 5th, 2008

Questions?

William R. Bolton, Jr.State Registrar and DirectorDivision of Vital Records AdministrationNew Hampshire Department of Statewilliam.bolton@sos.nh.gov