XML Reporter is the name for the submission system that
supports both the US EPA AQS Data Exchange and the Canadian NAPS Data
Exchange.
XML Reporter is available for the US EPA AQS Data Exchange in two
formats, both installed simultaneously if desired. The first format is
as a desktop application that provides user ability to generate reports
on demand for direct submission to AQS as XML documents. Also, XML
Reporter is available in support of the Windsor Node plug-in as a web
service in which case the Node Administrator initiates selections of
validated data sets for insertion to the node. AQS Schema 3.0 will be
available for use in XML Reporter by the end of 2014, and it will
support all standard data flows, but also the metadata flows that allow
for addition and modification of station and monitor information.
DR DAS has created, within the XML Reporter code set,
the ability to switch from AQS Exchange Node data submissions to EC
NAPS Data Exchange submissions. The formats – while similar – are in
fact quite different and provide different sets of metadata to the end
user group. This functionality maintains a single application that is
able to be used in the US and Canada. For the EC NAPS Data Exchange, DR
DAS has been responsible for both the transmission and the ingestion
web service portions of the process.