European AIS Database (EAD) Support - Data Entry
Key words and phrases: European AIS database support, EAD, data entry, support tools, validation
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When
EAD first becomes operational, the potentially large task of entering data for
the first time must be undertaken.
Planning for Data Entry
The initial population of the EAD Database with the States data is the critical task that must be carefully planned. It must be ensured that the data is up-to-date, correctly entered and complete.
Data entry raises many questions and must be carefully planned:
- How will all your data be entered into EAD?
- Does it have to be re-entered by hand?
- Will it be right?
- How can you guarantee that there are no errors?
- Can tools be used to assist the task?
Lockheed Martin UK - Integrated Systems & Solutions can help advise what techniques will be best suited to allow the initial entry of data to take place in a manner such that integrity is maintained.
Methods of Data Entry
Your aeronautical information must be entered into the EAD database whilst maintaining its integrity - this may be achieved in several ways.
If your data is held in a database, the EAD provides some automated methods of importing data during migration, but often you will still be left with some work to do. Tools may be required or translations required.
Often States hold their data within the documents themselves - in this case there may only be one way of entering this data into the EAD - manually.
Whether it is manual data entry or the provision of tools to assist in the translation of Data, Lockheed Martin UK - Integrated Systems & Solutions can help. We are fully aware of the need to maintain the integrity of data and to ensure its correct entry into the EAD and can provide staff with the necessary expertise.
Support Tools
It may be possible to use tools to support your initial data entry into the EAD, thus helping to maintain the integrity of the data.
If you hold your data electronically, it may well be possible to use support tools to either completely automate the generation of files which may be entered into EAD or to greatly assist the task.
Lockheed Martin UK - Integrated Systems & Solutions boasts an experienced software team capable of assessing your current data and establishing whether tools may be used to assist. If the answer is yes, these tools may present a cost effective solution and help to maintain data integrity.
Validation of Data Entry
Ensuring that the data that has been entered into the EAD database matches that which it was intended to submit.
Having entered your data into EAD, how do you know it is correct? Errors that come about through the initial population of the EAD database could have serious consequences.
Lockheed Martin UK - Integrated Systems & Solutions is able to perform audits of data entered into the EAD to assist the identification of any erroneous data, and hence help validate your data held within EAD.
These audits may be carried out manually, or through use of automatic data comparison techniques Lockheed Martin UK - Integrated Systems & Solutions has developed.
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