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GEOSPATIAL IT/IM QA CHECKLIST
Citation:
BRILIS, GEORGE AND J. G. LYON. GEOSPATIAL IT/IM QA CHECKLIST. Presented at EPA Office of Environmental Information 4th Annual National Meeting, Miami, FL, November 29 - December 03, 2004.
Impact/Purpose:
The overall objective of this task is to provide the Agency with improved science guidance and strategies for more effective science management and administration.
Description:
Quality assurance (QA) of information technology (IT) and Information Management (IM) systems help to ensure that the end product is of known quality and integrity. As the complexity of IT & IM processes increase, so does the need for regular QA evaluation.
The areas reviewed in this poster include both technical and evidentiary criteria. Although there has been an increase in the use of IT & IM systems, many existing audit programs do not address these issues.
In order to assist professionals interested in conducting audits of IT & IM
systems, the author has developed an audit approach based on existing requirements described in various EP A publications. The items in this poster are basic and each topic can be expanded and tailored depending on the IT/IM system being evaluated. The items listed in this poster serve two purposes. The first is as an auditing aid, the second is to create documented evidence that the IT & IM systems have been evaluated.