Item talk:Q30665

Envirofacts is essentially the underlying systems integration effort the USEPA has undertaken to bring linkages and some degree of cohesion across their many different systems for managing and reporting on their regulatory actions. It is what I'm working to tap into and make better sense of here in this knowledgebase. The action of mapping information to this type of fundamental linked data structure and attempting to build in as many connections as possible to the global knowledge commons in Wikidata are good forcing factors to expose and attempt to correct the many data inconsistencies the Envirofacts exercise demonstrates. Envirofacts has done a lot to expose underlying issues in how EPA is managing their data, but I'd be interested in finding out more about what they are doing to correct those issues.

One of the principals I'm following is to document each specific data source as an entity with associated details necessary for connecting to the source and integrating its information into this knowledgebase. I've done this with the sources I used for places (US states and counties, American Indian lands, etc.), documenting the actual sources I processed via the Microsoft Planetary Computer, originally sourced from US Census data. As I document the specific sources from EPA, I will also use item talk pages like this to record more detailed notes on findings as I hash through how to legitimately bring those data into the knowledge graph.