P1622 Standard for Voting Equipment Electronic Data Interchange

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P1622 - Standard for Voting Equipment Electronic
Data Interchange

• October, 2003
• Austin, TX

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Recap - Scope

• Scope is a Logical View of all Voting Data
• Municipality/Jurisdictional Information
• Contest Relationships
• Other Voting Registration (VR) Systems Info
• Other reporting informational attributes

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Recap Process to Achieve Results

• Define the scope (done)
• Define the deliverables (done next slide)
• Define the process to get to the deliverables
• I - Survey Phase (Discover)
• II - Data Modeling Phase (Represent)
• III - EDI Phase (Data Interchange)
• Publish Results!

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Recap Deliverables for a common base

• Voting Data Logical Model, includes
• Entities (major data groupings)
• Attributes (data associated with entities)
• Relationships between entities, defined by
• Cardinality (1 to 1, 1 to many, or many to many)
• Optionality/Modality (required/optional
• Data Dictionary, Synonyms (help everyone speak
  the same language)
• Voting System Data Interchange Model
• High Level Flow
• Electronic Data Interchange Standard

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Recap Initial Activities to be Done

• Need to fill the task group roles
• Vice Chair (meeting moderator)
• Secretary (web master, minutes posted to web)
• Technical Editor (terminologist)
• Working Group to do modeling no one has
  volunteered to participate (need 8-10)
• Initial Focus will be on data survey of the
  Public Body of Knowledge

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Survey Phase I (Discovery)

• Identify all relevant data sources/collections
• Research current models available
• Share data representations
• perform model comparison
• Build repository of data terminology (data
  dictionary structure to be determined)
• Steps 1 2 currently underway (status?)

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Data Modeling Phase II (Represent)

• Define Data Entities / groupings of data (in
  progress)
• Define the relationships between the data
  entities and the usage of the entities
• Flush out the attributes for each entity,
  accounting for the terminology variances
• Create draft model and data dictionary
• Validate model at state/local levels

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EDI Phase (Data Interchange)

• Define context model for voting systems and their
  boundaries
• Define data interchange points within this
  context (Hart presentation ballot XML)
• Identify the data exchange elements and map them
  back to the logical data views
• Validate this model draft with vendors and at
  state election levels

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Publish Results

• Submit results for IEEE vote / approval
• (see deliverables slide previously)
• Submit approved results to standards body for
  review and approval
• Publish approved results and submit to ANSI and
  ISO for approval
• Question do we work any of the pieces in a
  different order?

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Questions, Comments?

• Next Steps, Meeting?