8.2: Manage Archive

This process shall store the collected and formatted data in a permanent archive data store. This process shall receive the formatted data from the Get Archive Data function accompanied by any updates to the meta data that would describe the formatting operations performed on the data as it was imported. This process shall respond to requests from the administrator interface function to maintain the schema of the archive data, set update frequencies, backup schedules, user authentication schemes, cleansing algorithms. This process shall provide the administrator interface function with status of the data quality in the archive, frequency reports on use of the archive, updates to the measure of the volume of the data and other data archive metrics. This process shall receive inputs from the Coordinate Archives function to provide data and information about the archive schema to other archives. In turn the process shall receive data and schema of other archives to use to build a global schema. The process shall use the global schema to support requests from user systems for data that may be spread across multiple archives. The process shall maintain the access privileges information for the data held in the archive to maintain the security of the archive. The process shall employ such techniques as necessary to maintain the integrity of the data and ensure no data is lost from the archive. The process shall respond to requests for data to support user data products, user analysis, and inputs to government reporting systems. The process shall respond to such request by authenticating the originator of the request and providing the data that is available. The process shall also be capable of providing a sample or catalog of data contained within the archive to support the user requests.

This process is associated with the Archived Data System physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

This process is associated with the following data flows: