CWS-CARES Public Library

Data conversion is the technical process of moving data from one format to another so that it becomes compatible with CARES V1. This ensures that historical data from legacy systems, including CWS/CMS, CARES-Live, which includes CANS data, and other selected systems will be available to use in CARES V1. Data conversion follows an incremental development process that is driven by the overall Product Roadmap. This means that historical data from CWS/CMS, CARES-Live, and other systems will move over to CARES V1 on a milestone-by-milestone basis. An analysis is performed at each milestone to determine what data will transfer over to CARES V1. The team collaborates to ensure the data is of high quality and transfers it over to the CARES Data Infrastructure (CDI) data conversion staging area for initial testing. Once the milestone has been completed, the data conversion team then transfers the historical data from the staging area to CARES V1, for additional testing and validation. The end result of this effort is near 100% availability of the historical data from the legacy systems mentioned above in a single new source of truth: CARES V1. 

Milestone Design

• Identify which elements from CWS/CMS, CARES-LIVE, and selected external systems should be converted.
• Address any data quality concerns (e.g., incomplete or incompatible records) for the elements being converted.
• Transfer the historical data to a data conversion staging area within CDI, and test to make sure everything transferred as expected.

Milestone Development

• Transfer the historical data from the staging area to CARES V1, and test to make sure everything transferred as expected.

Originally published in the CWS-CARES Explorer.