AOB (http://energybenchmarking.lbl.gov/AOB.html ) is a web service consisting of a set of benchmarking analysis and visualization methods that draw upon a database containing sets of buildings that can be combined in various ways to obtain "peer groups" against which individual buildings can be compared.

Licensing and registration is required.

Active mines and mineral plants in the US (http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mineplant/ ) includes mine plants and operations for commodities monitored by the Minerals Information Team of the USGS. Operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the USGS.

The EPA's Adopt Your Watershed program (http://www.epa.gov/adopt/ ) challenges people to serve their community by taking part in activities to protect and restore their local watershed. The Adopt Your Watershed database has more than 2,600 watershed groups.

The AIRNow-Gateway (http://www.airnowgateway.org/ ) provides real-time air quality data and forecasts to protect public health across the United States, Canada, and parts of Mexico. AIRNow receives real-time ozone and PM_2.5 data from over 2,000 monitors and collects forecasts for more than 300 cities.

As part of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) program, the AIRNow Gateway system broadens access to AIRNow data and data products. AIRNow Gateway produces data products in several standard data formats and makes them available via FTP and web services.

Registration required.

Airport Status / AFP (http://www.fly.faa.gov/What_s_New/XML_is_changing.jsp ) was introduced in the summer of 2006 and marks a significant new step in en-route traffic management. The principal goal for the initial deployment was to provide enhanced en-route traffic management during severe weather events. An AFP is a traffic management process that identifies constraints in the en-route system, develops a real time list of flights that are filed into the constrained area, and distributes expect departure clearance times (EDCT) to meter the demand through the area.

ARDF (http://tin.er.usgs.gov/ardf/ ) consists of descriptions of mines, prospects, and mineral resources and is published for individual U.S. Geological Survey 1:250,000 scale quadrangles in Alaska. These descriptions were complied from published literature and from unpublished reports and data from industry, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the U.S. Geological Survey and other sources. Compilation of this database is an ongoing process and each report is essentially a progress report.

ALJ Disposition Data (http://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/03_ALJ_Disp.html ) is a listing of hearings completion data by name of individual administrative law judges (ALJ) for all ALJs in ODAR. The data includes hearing office name, total dispositions, decisions, allowances, denials and fully favorable or partially favorable decisions.

The HazCollect system, http://www.weather.gov/os/hazcollect/ , will provide an automated capability to streamline the creation, authentication, collection, and dissemination of non-weather emergency messages in a quick and secure fashion. The HazCollect system is a comprehensive solution for the centralized collection and efficient distribution of Non-Weather Emergency Messages (NWEMs) to the NWS dissemination infrastructure, the Emergency Alert System (EAS), and other national systems.

Registration required.

The Archival Descriptions from the Archival Research Catalog (http://www.archives.gov/open/dataset-arc.html ) provides archival descriptions of the permanent holdings of the federal government in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The archival descriptions include information on traditional paper holdings, electronic records, and artifacts. ARC is a work in progress.

Archival Finding Aids (http://www.loc.gov/rr/ead/ ) provide a comprehensive overview of a collection's scope and contents. They define the conditions under which a collection may be accessed or copied, explain its provenance, and contain histories of individuals and organizations connected with the collection. Archival finding aids progressively describe a collection's component parts. Corresponding identifiers (such as call numbers or container numbers) help researchers request items of interest.

Finding Aids are available by the repository or custodial division in which the collections may be used. The repository or custodial divisions at the LOC include American Folklife Center; Geography and Map Division; Manuscript Division; Motion Picture Section; Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division; Music Division; Prints and Photographs Division; Rare Book and Special Collections Division; Science, Technology and Business Division.

ACRES (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/pubs/acres/ ) is an online database for Brownfields Grantees to electronically submit data directly to EPA. Brownfields are real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.

The Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies service (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/ ) enables both humans and machines to programmatically access authority data at the Library of Congress via URIs. This service is influenced by -- and implements -- the Linked Data movement's approach of exposing and inter-connecting data on the Web via dereferenceable URIs.

The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is the first vocabulary to be included in the Authorities and Vocabularies service. Additional vocabularies to be included are:

• Thesaurus of Graphic Materials
• MARC Geographic Area Codes
• MARC Language Codes
• MARC Relator Codes

LCSH has been actively maintained since 1898 to catalog materials held at the Library of Congress. By virtue of cooperative cataloging, other libraries around the United States also use LCSH to provide subject access to their collections. In addition LCSH is used internationally, often in translation.

ABS (https://www.energystar.gov/istar/has/ ) is a free web service designed to exchange energy use data and facility information, with EPA’s Portfolio Manager software tool. Using XML-based Web Services provided by the EPA, third-party energy service companies can securely provide energy and building data from their systems to Portfolio Manager in exchange for receiving the EPA’s energy performance rating and other related energy and environmental performance metrics.

Registration required.

The Aviation Accident Database and Synopses (http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp ) contains information from 1962 and later about civil aviation accidents and selected incidents within the United States, its territories and possessions, and in international waters. Generally, a preliminary report is available online within a few days of an accident. Factual information is added when available, and when the investigation is completed, the preliminary report is replaced with a final description of the accident and its probable cause. Full narrative descriptions may not be available for dates before 1993, cases under revision, or where NTSB did not have primary investigative responsibility.

ADDS (http://adds.aviationweather.gov/ ) makes available to the aviation community text, digital and graphical forecasts, analyses, and observations of aviation-related weather variables. ADDS is a joint effort of NCAR Research Applications Program (RAP), Global Systems Division (GSD) of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Aviation Weather Center (AWC).

Using the Biodiversity Thesaurus Web Services (http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=578&&PageID=1798&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true ), your application can query the thesaurus for matching terms, retrieve all related terms, or retrieve only terms related in specific ways (e.g. broader terms only).

The Biocomplexity Thesaurus is a merger of the following thesauri:

• the CSA Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Thesaurus
• the CSA Life Sciences Thesaurus
• the CSA Pollution Thesaurus
• the CSA Sociological Thesaurus
• the CERES/NBII Thesaurus
• the CSA Ecotourism Thesaurus

Plans were to merge the following thesauri in 2008:

• E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Thesaurus, Tall Timbers Research Station
• Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) Glossary
• Northwest and Alaska Fire Effects Clearinghouse Glossary
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology
• Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science
• Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center Topics

Bundled Contributions (Lobbyists) ( http://www.fec.gov/data/LobbyistBundle.do?format=html ) contains information filed by campaigns, parties and leadership PACs disclosing receipt of contributions bundled by lobbyists.

The Business.gov Web Service API: Business Licenses & Permits (http://www.business.gov/about/features/api/business-licenses/ ) API provides a list of federal, state and local permits, licenses, and registrations needed to run a small business. When links to specific local licenses are not available, the api returns local websites (when available) that identify official resources for their local government agencies.

The Business.gov Web Service API: Loans & Grants Search (http://www.business.gov/about/features/api/loans-grants/ ) API provides access to a collection of links to Federal, state, and local financial assistance programs that help small businesses get started or expand operations. Each program is categorized to several attributes, including specialized types of financing (e.g., start-up loans for women entrepreneurs).

The Business.gov Web Service API: Recommended Sites (http://www.business.gov/about/features/api/recommended-sites/ ) data set includes links to federal, state and local websites. Recommend Sites are editorially reviewed by the Business.gov team and represent the best resources when an individual is seeking information on a particular keyword.

Business.gov Web Service API: U.S. City and County Web Data (http://www.business.gov/about/features/api/geodata/ ) is a geographic names data set that provides a "mashup" of URLs for official city and county government web sites and city and county location data from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). GNIS data includes incorporated places, census designated areas, unincorporated places, counties, and populated places.

caAERS (https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/CTMS/Cancer+Adverse+Events+Reporting+System+%28caAERS%29 ) is an open source, standards-based, web application for documenting, managing, reporting, and analyzing adverse events (AEs). The system operates as both a repository for capturing and tracking routine and serious AEs and as a tool for preparing and submitting expedited AE reports to regulatory agencies.

The caAERS Adverse Event Management Service (https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/KC/index.php/CaAERSV1.9_Administration_Guide#AdverseEventManagementService ) is used to manage caAERS adverse events.

caAERS (https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/CTMS/Cancer+Adverse+Events+Reporting+System+%28caAERS%29 ) is an open source, standards-based, web application for documenting, managing, reporting, and analyzing adverse events (AEs). The system operates as both a repository for capturing and tracking routine and serious AEs and as a tool for preparing and submitting expedited AE reports to regulatory agencies.

The caAERS Investigator Migrator Service (https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/KC/index.php/CaAERSV1.9_Administration_Guide#InvestigatorMigratorService ) is used to manage Investigator entries in caAERS.

caAERS (https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/CTMS/Cancer+Adverse+Events+Reporting+System+%28caAERS%29 ) is an open source, standards-based, web application for documenting, managing, reporting, and analyzing adverse events (AEs). The system operates as both a repository for capturing and tracking routine and serious AEs and as a tool for preparing and submitting expedited AE reports to regulatory agencies.

The caAERS Participant Service (https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/KC/index.php/CaAERSV1.9_Administration_Guide#ParticipantService ) is used to manage Participants in caAERS.

caAERS (https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/CTMS/Cancer+Adverse+Events+Reporting+System+%28caAERS%29 ) is an open source, standards-based, web application for documenting, managing, reporting, and analyzing adverse events (AEs). The system operates as both a repository for capturing and tracking routine and serious AEs and as a tool for preparing and submitting expedited AE reports to regulatory agencies.

The caAERS Research Staff Migrator Service (https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/KC/index.php/CaAERSV1.9_Administration_Guide#ResearchStaffMigratorService ) is used to manage Research Staff entries in caAERS.

caAERS (https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/CTMS/Cancer+Adverse+Events+Reporting+System+%28caAERS%29 ) is an open source, standards-based, web application for documenting, managing, reporting, and analyzing adverse events (AEs). The system operates as both a repository for capturing and tracking routine and serious AEs and as a tool for preparing and submitting expedited AE reports to regulatory agencies.

The caAERS Study Service (https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/CTMS/KC/index.php/CaAERSV1.9_Administration_Guide#StudyService ) is used to manage caAERS studies.

caBIO (http://cabioapi.nci.nih.gov/cabio42/Home.action ) is a repository of molecular biology data. The entities that concern the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology are the core of the model. Data for the classes come from a variety of sources, including CGAP, Unigene, and the Cancer Gene Index, as well as a number of array manufacturers (for microarray annotations). Given the dynamic nature of this information, the data in caBIO is updated monthly through a series of ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) processes.

CBFish.org web services (http://www.cbfish.org/ServiceDocumentation.mvc/List ) provide information about projects and other aspects of BPA's Fish & Wildlife Program. CBFish.org (http://cbfish.org ) provides the public an unprecedented view into Bonneville Power Administration’s implementation of the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program; a program which stretches across a four-state region and is the largest program of its kind in the world. Developed by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council pursuant to the Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980, the Program consists of measures that protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife, including related spawning grounds and habitat, on the Columbia River and its tributaries.

Registration required.

The CDA Guideline Validation web service (http://xreg2.nist.gov/cda-validation/webservice.html ) provides applications with the ability to automatically query the service for validation of CDA-based documents.

CO-OPS (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/) provides the national infrastructure, science, and technical expertise to monitor, assess, and distribute tide, current, water level, and other coastal oceanographic products and services that support NOAA's mission of environmental stewardship and environmental assessment and prediction. CO-OPS provides operationally sound observations and monitoring capabilities coupled with operational Nowcast Forecast modeling.

CCRXML, http://www.ccr.gov/XMLTrans.aspx , is a B2B (Business to Business) web application that receives user-customized requests for CCR information from a client application on one or multiple records and returns the requested data in real-time using the XML format. The transaction is sent using HTTPS POST technology and is encrypted via SSL. Users are authenticated in CCRXML by passing a User ID and Password along in the XML transaction. CCR records are requested using DUNS/DUNS+4, CAGE, SocialSecurityNumber, TaxpayerIdentificationNumber, CurrentRegistrationStatus, StartDateTime and EndDateTime.

CCRXML requires registration.

The EquipmentData database, http://cgmix.uscg.mil/equipment/ , contains approved or certified equipment by the Commandant of the US Coast Guard for use on commercial vessels and recreational boats, for the reference of ship-owners, operators, builders, and other persons affected by the Marine Inspection and Navigation Laws and Regulations.

The MARPOLData database, http://cgmix.uscg.mil/MARPOL/ , contains a listing of U.S. Ports and Terminals holding valid MARPOL Certificates of Adequacy (COAs). U.S. Ports and Terminals are issued Certificates of Adequacy (COAs) as evidence that their facilities meet the requirements of Annexes I, II, and V of the 1978 Protocol to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78).

The PSIX system, http://cgmix.uscg.mil/psix/, contains vessel specific information derived from the US Coast Guard's Marine Information Safety and Law Enforcement System (MISLE). The information contained in PSIX represents a weekly snapshot of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data compiled within the MISLE database.

The Chemical Structure Lookup Service (CSLS) (http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/lookup/search ) is meant to work as an address book for chemical structures. It has two major modes of operation: The first is when you submit one or more chemical structures in the form of an SD file, as SMILES strings, or in more than 20 other molecular structure formats CSLS understands. The service will determine whether the submitted structures are present in any of the databases which currently are indexed in CSLS. The second mode is when you submit a document and the service will try to extract all possible chemical information this document might contain - InChI string, InChIKey, SMILES string, molecular formula, or our NCI/CADD Structure Identifiers (uuuuu, FICuS, or FICTS) - and then conducts a search with these extracted chemical data. You can also enter any of these chemical structure identifiers directly.

CSSRatings (http://ogd.nhtsa.gov/ ) were created by the NHTSA to assist consumers purchasing child safety seats. NHTSA has rated car seats which meet Federal Safety Standards and strict crash performance standards. While all rated seats are safe, they do differ in their ease of use in the following four basic categories:

• Evaluation of Instructions
• Evaluation of Labels
• Vehicle Installation Features
• Securing the Child

ClinicalTrials.gov (http://clinicaltrials.gov/ ) is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov provides information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers. Clinical trial information should be used in conjunction with advice from health care professionals.

CBSV (http://www.ssa.gov/cbsv/ ) is a fee and consent-based Social Security number (SSN) verification service available to enrolled private companies and government agencies, whether Federal, State or Local. It provides instantaneous, automated verification and it easily handles large volume requests. Using CBSV, participating companies can verify the SSNs of their customers and clients.

CBSV requires the written consent of the SSN holder and the verification results can only be used for the reason the number holder specifies.

CBSV verifies whether a name and Social Security Number (SSN) combination match the data in SSA’s records. The submitted information is matched against SSA’s Master File of Social Security Numbers (SSNs). The matching elements include: Social Security number, name, date of birth and a gender code if available. Each SSN and name combination submitted to CBSV will be returned with a “yes” or “no” verification code that the submission either matches or does not match our records. If applicable, a death indicator will be reported if the records reflect that the SSN holder is deceased. Please note that the results obtained from CBSV do not confirm or authenticate "proof of identity”.

Registration required.

CDAS (http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/) supports simultaneous multi-mission, multi-instrument selection and comparison of science data among a wide range of current space missions.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products. Recent Recalls and Product Safety News (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html ) is an XML file of recent CPSC recalls. There is a database of previous recalls; a copy of which can be requested through the Freedom of Information office (cpsc-foia@cpsc.gov). XML files of recent recalls are also available by product category i.e. Child products, including toys, Household products, Outdoor products and Sports & Recreation products.

Daily Treasury Bill Rates (http://www.treasury.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-management/interest-rate/daily_treas_bill_rates.shtml ) are the daily secondary market quotation on the most recently auctioned Treasury Bills for each maturity tranche (4-week, 13-week, 26-week, and 52-week) that Treasury currently issues new Bills.

Treasury ceased publication of the 30-year constant maturity series on February 18, 2002 and resumed that series on February 9, 2006. To estimate a 30-year rate during that time frame, this series includes the Treasury 20-year Constant Maturity rate and an "adjustment factor," which may be added to the 20-year rate to estimate a 30-year rate during the period of time in which Treasury did not sell 30-year bonds. For more information, visit http://www.treasury.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-management/interest-rate/ltcompositeindex.shtml/ .

The Long-Term Real Rate Average (http://www.treasury.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-management/interest-rate/real_ltcompositeindex.shtml ) is the un-weighted average of bid real yields on all outstanding TIPS with remaining maturities of more than 10 years and is intended as a proxy for long-term real rates.

Treasury Real Yield Curve Rates (http://www.treasury.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-management/interest-rate/real_yield.shtml ) are commonly referred to as "Real Constant Maturity Treasury" rates, or R-CMTs. Real yields on Treasury TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) at "constant maturity" are interpolated by the U.S. Treasury from Treasury's daily real yield curve. These real market yields are calculated from composites of secondary market quotations obtained by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Treasury Yield Curve Rates (http://www.treasury.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-management/interest-rate/yield.shtml ) are commonly referred to as "Constant Maturity Treasury" rates, or CMTs. Yields are interpolated by the Treasury from the daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity is based on the closing market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market. These market yields are calculated from composites of quotations obtained by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

DailyMed (http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov ) provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). DailyMed provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.

The Data Download Program (https://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/ ) is designed to provide interactive access to Federal Reserve Board data. It allows users to create custom datasets to download in machine readable electronic formats (Excel, CSV, XML).

The Data Download Program is designed to allow flexible access to data produced by the Federal Reserve Board. Data associated with the statistical releases listed are currently available.

• Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institution and the Monetary Base (H.3)


• Charge-Off and Delinquency Rates


• Commercial Paper


• Consumer Credit (G.19)


• Finance Companies (G.20)


• Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States (Z.1)


• Household Debt Service and Financial Obligations Ratios (FOR)


• Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization (G.17)


• Selected Interest Rates (H.15)

The DTWS (http://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/dtws.html ) is a web service based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), an XML-based protocol designed for the exchange of information in a distributed computing environment, and it allows users to translate one or more local and/or remote files into other data formats. Below is a list of the data translation modes that are currently supported:

• CDF-to-netCDF
• CDF-to-FITS
• CDF-to-ASCII (Text dump of a CDF file)
• CDF-to-CDF Skeleton table
• CDF-to-CDFML (XML representation of CDF)
• CDFML-to-CDF
• netCDF-to-CDF
• netCDF-to-ASCII (Text dump of a netCDF file)
• FITS-to-CDF
• FITS-to-ASCII (Text dump of a FITS file)
• HDF4-to-CDF
• HDF5-to-CDF
• HDF5-to-ASCII (Text dump of a HDF5 file)

Defects and Recalls Early Warning Reporting (https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ewr/ ) was established by ODI to collect and report information about vehicle defects and recalls. In response to complaints by the public or reports by manufacturers, ODI conducts defect investigations and administers safety recalls to support the NHTSA’s mission to improve safety on our Nation's highways. NHTSA is authorized to order manufacturers to recall and repair vehicles or items of motor vehicle equipment when ODI investigations indicate that they contain serious safety defects in their design, construction, or performance. ODI also monitors the adequacy of manufacturers' recall campaigns.

Anyone may file a safety complaint (http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/index.cfm ) or download defect and recall information. However, only manufacturers can establish a EWR (Early Warning Report) account.

DMIS, http://interopdev.cmiservices.org/ , is a basic "situational awareness" toolset provided by the DM Program at no software license cost to public safety organizations at local, state/province, regional, and national government levels, within the United States and Canada. The DMIS mission is to enable government organizations at all levels to collaborate and share a common operating picture in order to enhance emergency or disaster response. DMIS was designed primarily for public safety managers or responders interested in available information technologies.

You must be an active member of the Emergency Management community to register with Disaster Management Interoperability Services.

DM-OPEN, http://www.disasterhelp.gov/disastermanagement/open/index.shtm, was created to establish information exchange and collaboration between existing emergency preparedness information systems.

DM-OPEN is a non-proprietary operational interoperability backbone that provides a set of "level playing field" web services designed to enable disparate third-party applications, systems, networks and devices to share information using open, freely available interoperability standards.

As Federal infrastructure, DM-OPEN is designed to support the delivery of real-time data and situational awareness to public emergency responders in the field, at operation centers and across all levels of response management. It was designed primarily for developers of government or commercial software products that support incident response and recovery who are interested in utilizing a common network to distribute OASIS standards-compliant messages.

DM-OPEN currently provides four active Web services:

1. Admin Interface - Web service interface for adding and removing users to OPEN Collaboration Operating Groups (COG) for the purpose of operational group access management.
2. Common Alerting Protocol SOAP Interface - An implementation of the OASIS CAP that allows for the sharing of Alerts between OPEN-COGs regardless of which system is used for creation. Allows retrieval of alerts by or by time of post.Addition selection of messages sent from a COG, sent to a COG, sent to all COGs, or all of the above. Allows post of CAP messages globally (to all cogs) or to an array of pre-determined COGs. Uses a SOAP Encoded RPC interface.
3. HazCollect NWEM Interface - An interface for posting specialized CAP messages meeting the requirements for NOAA HazCollect system. Messages are to be broadcasted to HazCollect system and stored in DMIS. The interface also allows for determination of COG authorization and which Weather offices and associated FIPS Codes are allowed to a specific COG for building the specialized message.
4. EDXL DE Interface - WSDL interface for sending and receiving EDXL-DE wrapped content of all kinds through the DM-OPEN directed distribution system. Posting and retrieval rules follow the same as for CAP messages except that each item of content is a separate string representing a complete EDXL message with content.

You must be an active member of the Emergency Management community to register with Disaster Management Open.

Domestic Support Obligation Agencies (http://www.justice.gov/ust/eo/bapcpa/ds/ ) are state child support enforcement agencies that are to be notified by claimants whenever there is a bankruptcy filing and the claimant is owed money by the debtor for a domestic support obligation. By law, all such domestic support claims will be given first priority and will be paid ahead of all other creditors, except for certain administrative expenses.

The NASA Earth Observing System Clearinghouse (ECHO) is an operational metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily discover and exchange NASA’s Earth science data and services.

The Catalog Service provides the ECHO catalog search interface. Through this interface users may perform queries against the ECHO geo-spatial metadata database, The metadata contains catalog item types such as granules and collections.

The NASA Earth Observing System Clearinghouse (ECHO) is an operational metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily discover and exchange NASA’s Earth science data and services.

The Data Management Service is the mechanism used to control access to meta data. Used only by providers, this service restricts or permits users of the Echo system to take action upon metadata. Actions currently include viewing, browsing, and ordering meta data.

The NASA Earth Observing System Clearinghouse (ECHO) is an operational metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily discover and exchange NASA’s Earth science data and services.

The Event Notification Service Allows for the management of event notification subscriptions and delivery options. Event notification subscriptions allow third party applications to be notified by ECHO when an internal event occurs, such as a catalog modification (item added, removed, or updated) or an extended services modification (web service added, removed, or updated). The event notification framework supports the delivery of the notifications in various ways, including FTP push, email, and a web service callback.

The NASA Earth Observing System Clearinghouse (ECHO) is an operational metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily discover and exchange NASA’s Earth science data and services.

The Group Management Service provides all activities a user of the ECHO system needs to maintain and manage groups of users. Groups are aggregations of ECHO registered users, and there are rules governing the membership actions that can be invoked on a group. Each group consists of one owner, and one or more managers. A group manager is responsible for adding and removing ECHO registered users to the group. A group manager is also responsible for the management of the group managers. A group must have one or more group managers. Attempting to remove the last manager of a group results in a error. Groups are used to communicate amongst groups of users and the managers of those users. Groups are also used in the Data Management Service when permissions are created on meta data.

The NASA Earth Observing System Clearinghouse (ECHO) is an operational metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily discover and exchange NASA’s Earth science data and services.

Used to create, update, and get information about providers. Providers are complex roles that contain contact information and preferences. A provider represents an entity that can provide services, data, or both. The creator of a provider is automatically given the provider role. A user with a provider role can then act on behalf of that provider to accomplish tasks such as fulfilling orders or granting the provider role to other users. A user may have multiple provider roles (only acting on behalf of one at a time)

The NASA Earth Observing System Clearinghouse (ECHO) is an operational metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily discover and exchange NASA’s Earth science data and services.

Provides access to user related functionality such as locating and updating users. The user service can be used by providers to find users and grant or revoke access to the provider.

Electronic Filing of Bankruptcy Claims Information (http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/documents/CreditorClaimsSpecs.pdf ) enables large claims filers to file claims and receive electronic notice of electronic filing (NEF) for successful transactions and error messages for transactions that fail. The information requirements include XML data to support automatic docketing of claims information and PDF versions of the Forms (B10 Proof of Claim and the new B210 Transfer of Claim) and supporting documentation.

Registration with a bankruptcy court’s CM/ECF system is required.

eNOAD (https://enoad.nvmc.uscg.gov/ ) is provided at no cost by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) to provide vessel representatives with the means of electronically fulfilling the arrival and departure notification requirements of the USCG and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Registration is required but is free. Register at http://www.nvmc.uscg.gov/NVMC/Developer.aspx

Electronic Records Express (http://www.ssa.gov/ere/ ) is an initiative by Social Security and state Disability Determination Services (DDS) to offer electronic options for submitting health and school records related to disability claims. EREWS (http://www.ssa.gov/ere/ere_demo_public/html/ERE_Home.html ) is a solution that provides SSA with a high volume Internet transport to receive electronic evidence from SSA’s business partners, leveraging the Internet and associated industry standard protocols.

Registration required.

The National Institutes of Health is replacing paper grant applications with electronic applications and has begun the transition to requiring electronic submission of grant applications via the online portal of Grants.gov (http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/index.htm).

NIH is simultaneously transitioning from the paper 398 application form to a new electronic application form called the SF424 (R&R).

Registration required.

The Elevation Query Web Service (http://gisdata.usgs.gov/XMLWebServices/TNM_Elevation_Service.php) returns the elevation in feet or meters for a specific latitutde/longitude (WGS 1984) point from the USGS Seamless Elevation datasets hosted at EROS. The elevation values returned default to the best-available data source available at the specified point. Alternately, this service may return the value from a specified data source, or from all data sources. If unable to find data at the requested point, this service returns an extremely large, negative value (-1.79769313486231E+308). View the detailed Elevation Service Methods description for more information on the methods and parameters used in this service. Visit http://gisdata.usgs.gov/ to view other EROS Web Services.

ERDDAP (http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap ) is a web service that helps humans and computer programs download scientific data in common file formats and make graphs and maps. This particular ERDDAP installation has oceanographic data (i.e. data from satellites and buoys).

ERDDAP:

• Aggregates data from diverse remote sources and offers a simple, consistent way to access the data.
• Offers different ways to search for datasets of interest
• Lets you make requests in a standardized way, regardless of the data source's request protocol.
• Provides gridded data via the DAP hyperslab protocol and WMS.
• Provides tabular data via the DAP constraint protocol.
• Provides Data Access Forms (web pages) which help humans create the DAP requests.
• Lets you choose the file format for the results (for example, .html table, ESRI .asc, Google Earth .kml, .mat, .nc, .csv, .tsv, .json, .xhtml, .png).
• Standardizes the dates+times in the results
• Lets you request .png and .pdf image files with graphs and maps of the data, in addition to the raw data.
• Has REST- and ROA-style links

The EPA Geospatial Data Access Project (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/geo_data.html ) is part of the overall effort of the EPA to improve public health and the environment by collecting and disseminating information about facilities or sites subject to environmental regulation.

The EPA's WAF is a metadata repository (http://www.epa.gov/geospatial/data.html ). It contains information about the publically available data sources in the EPA’s Geospatial Data Catalog.

The EPLS (https://www.epls.gov/) is an electronic, web-based system that identifies those parties excluded from receiving Federal contracts, certain subcontracts, and certain types of Federal financial and non-financial assistance and benefits. The EPLS keeps its user community aware of administrative and statutory exclusions across the entire government, and individuals barred from entering the United States. The user is able to search, view, and download both current and archived exclusions.

Executive Order 12866 XML Files (http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/XMLReportList ) are reports provided by OIRA in XML format to comply with Executive Order 12866 disclosure provisions. In accordance with Executive Order 12866 disclosure provisions, OIRA makes available a list of all rules undergoing OIRA EO 12866 regulatory review, updated daily; a list of all rules on which review has been concluded in the past 30 days; lists and statistics on regulatory reviews dating back to 1981; and letters to agencies regarding regulatory actions.

FCC Auctions Results (http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=round_results_all ) of the electromagnetic spectrum are accessible over the Internet. Since 1994, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has conducted auctions of licenses for the electromagnetic spectrum. These auctions are open to any eligible company or individual that submits an application and upfront payment, and is found to be a qualified bidder by the Commission. FCC auctions are conducted electronically.

Auction results prior to July 2005 are not available in XML format.

The FCC Domain Name Registry (http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/DomainNameDownload.html ) is used to protect cellular and other commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) wireless consumers from unwanted commercial electronic mail messages (aka spam), by identifying, for those who send commercial electronic mail messages, Internet domain names used to transmit electronic messages to CMRS consumers.

The domain name list is updated only when wireless service providers submit valid new domain names or delete unused domain names. FCC rules require wireless service providers to update the list not less than 30 days before issuing subscribers any new or modified domain name and remove any domain name that has not been issued to subscribers or is no longer in use within six months of placing it on the list or its last date of use.

Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts (http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html ) is an RSS service provide by the FDA to alert consumers as to which products have recently been recalled, withdrawn or have safety issues.

The agency has other RSS services which can be found at: http://www.fda.gov/oc/rss/ . Those services include:

• News releases
• Enforcement Report
• Upcoming Meetings
• Consumer Health Information
• FDA Drug Shortages
• What's New: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
• What's New: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• What's New: Center for Devices and Radiological Health
• What's New: Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
• Medical Device Information for Consumers
• Recently Approved Medical Devices
• FDA Patient Safety News
• MedWatch Safety Alerts
• Color Additive News Feed
• Cosmetics News Feed

The Federal Register is a detailed description of the Executive branch’s doings, including 150 daily policy decisions of President and Federal agencies, such as proposed and enacted changes to federal regulations.

American International Group, Inc. is an insurance company that was at the heart of the financial crisis. Since September 2008, the Federal Reserve and Treasury have taken a series of actions related to AIG in order to promote financial stability. These measures focused on addressing the liquidity and capital needs of AIG, thereby helping to stabilize the company and prevent a disorderly failure. As part of these actions, in November 2008, Treasury purchased $40 billion in preferred stock from AIG. The preferred stock pays a dividend of 10 percent per year. In April 2009, Treasury created an equity capital facility under which AIG may draw up to $29.8 billion as needed in exchange for issuing additional preferred stock to Treasury. As of September 30, 2009, AIG has drawn $3.2 billion from the facility. Treasury does not have voting rights except in certain limited circumstances (such as amendments to the charter) or in the event dividends are not paid for four quarters, in which case Treasury has the right to elect up to three directors to the board.

The Asset Guarantee Program (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/assetguaranteeprogram.htm ) allows the Treasury to guarantee certain assets held by qualifying financial institutions. The set of insured assets is selected by the Treasury and its agents in consultation with the financial institution receiving the guarantee. In accordance with section 102(a), assets to be guaranteed must have been originated before March 14, 2008. Treasury determines the eligibility of participants and the allocation of resources on a case-by-case basis. The program is meant for systemically significant institutions, and could be used in coordination with other programs. Treasury may, on a case-by-case basis, use this program in coordination with a broader guarantee involving other agencies of the United States government.

The objective of the Automotive Industry Financing Program (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/autoprogram.html ) is to prevent a significant disruption of the American automotive industry, which would pose a systemic risk to financial market stability and have a negative effect on the economy of the United States. The program requires participating institutions to implement plans that will achieve long-term viability. Participating institutions must also adhere to rigorous executive compensation standards and other measures to protect the taxpayer’s interests, including limits on the institution’s expenditures and other corporate governance requirements.

The objective of the Automotive Industry Financing Program (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/autoprogram.html ) is to prevent a significant disruption of the American automotive industry, which would pose a systemic risk to financial market stability and have a negative effect on the economy of the United States. The program requires participating institutions to implement plans that will achieve long-term viability. Participating institutions must also adhere to rigorous executive compensation standards and other measures to protect the taxpayer’s interests, including limits on the institution’s expenditures and other corporate governance requirements.

The Capital Purchase Program (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/capitalpurchaseprogram.html ) was created in October 2008 to stabilize the financial system by providing capital to viable financial institutions of all sizes throughout the nation. With a strengthened capital base, financial institutions have an increased capacity to lend to U.S. businesses and consumers and to support the U.S. economy.

The Consumer and Business Lending Initiative (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/lendinginitiative.html ) is designed to jumpstart the credit markets. When banks are able to bundle and sell their loan portfolio into a vibrant and liquid secondary market, money can be instantly recycled back to financial institutions so that additional loans can be made. When the secondary markets freezes up, lenders stop lending; those seeking credit face exorbitant rates.

The Home Affordable Modification Program (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/homeowner.html ) is the Obama Administration’s program to offer assistance to as many as 7 to 9 million homeowners making a good-faith effort to make their mortgage payments, while attempting to prevent the destructive impact of the housing crisis on families and communities.

The Public-Private Investment Program (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/publicprivatefund.html ) is part of a joint effort by the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury"), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") and the Federal Reserve System to repair balance sheets throughout the U.S. financial system and ensure that credit is available to households and businesses. The coordinated effort is designed to improve the health of financial institutions holding real estate-related assets by increasing the flow of credit throughout the U.S. economy. The PPIP seeks to improve liquidity, promote price discovery, free up capital, and allow financial institutions to engage in new credit formation.

The Targeted Investment Program (http://www.financialstability.gov/roadtostability/targetedinvestmentprogram.html ) was created to stabilize the financial system by making investments in institutions that are critical to the functioning of the financial system. This program focuses on the complex relationships and reliance of institutions within the financial system. Investments made through the TIP seek to avoid significant market disruptions resulting from the deterioration of one financial institution that can threaten other financial institutions and impair broader financial markets and pose a threat to the overall economy. Through the TIP, Treasury is working to stabilize the financial system by reducing the chance that one firm’s distress will threaten otherwise financially-sound businesses, institutions, and municipalities which could cause an adverse spillover effect on employment, output, and incomes.

FNS Syslink (http://nfdc.faa.gov/aimnews/index.html ) is a SOAP standards-compliant web service intended for external systems to submit requests for NOTAMs to the United States Federal NOTAM System (FNS). FNS is a component of the National Airspace System (NAS). A NOTAM is a notice distributed by means of telecommunication containing information concerning the establishment, conditions or change in any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard, the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel concerned with flight operations.

Only authorized users will be permitted to use FNS Syslink to submit NOTAM requests.

The purpose of FRA is to: promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance programs; conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy; provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service; and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities. Note: The FRA Master Web Service (http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/masterwebservice/default.aspx ) is a term used to refer to the collection of web services provided by the FRA in support of its mission.

The FRA: AIRG Service is currently used by many Railroads to submit Accident/Incident reports to FRA. FRA Office publishes this accident/incident data on their Safety Analysis web site. AIRG Service contains methods to accept AIRG reports (XML format) from various railroad companies.

Registration required.

The purpose of FRA is to: promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance programs; conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy; provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service; and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities. Note: The FRA Master Web Service (http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/masterwebservice/default.aspx ) is a term used to refer to the collection of web services provided by the FRA in support of its mission.

The FRA: Accident/Incident Upload Service contains methods for uploading FRA Accident/Incident data.

Registration required.

The purpose of FRA is to: promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance programs; conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy; provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service; and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities. Note: The FRA Master Web Service (http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/masterwebservice/default.aspx ) is a term used to refer to the collection of web services provided by the FRA in support of its mission.

The FRA: ATIP Service has been deployed nationwide to track geometry car. The Office of Safety objective is to conduct safe, accurate, and efficient surveys with the foci to develop a comprehensive automated inspection supplement that may eventually go beyond manual inspection imprecision by improving the method and practice of measuring substandard track conditions.

Registration required.

The purpose of FRA is to: promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance programs; conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy; provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service; and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities. Note: The FRA Master Web Service (http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/masterwebservice/default.aspx ) is a term used to refer to the collection of web services provided by the FRA in support of its mission.

The FRA: Controlled Correspondence Manager (CCM) Service contains methods for downloading various types of FRA CCM data.

Registration required.

The purpose of FRA is to: promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance programs; conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy; provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service; and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities. Note: The FRA Master Web Service (http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/masterwebservice/default.aspx ) is a term used to refer to the collection of web services provided by the FRA in support of its mission.

The FRA: Data Download Service contains methods for downloading various types of FRA data.

Registration required.

The purpose of FRA is to: promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance programs; conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy; provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service; and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities. Note: The FRA Master Web Service (http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/masterwebservice/default.aspx ) is a term used to refer to the collection of web services provided by the FRA in support of its mission.

The FRA: Data Upload Service contains methods for uploading various types of FRA data.

Registration required.

The purpose of FRA is to: promulgate and enforce rail safety regulations; administer railroad assistance programs; conduct research and development in support of improved railroad safety and national rail transportation policy; provide for the rehabilitation of Northeast Corridor rail passenger service; and consolidate government support of rail transportation activities. Note: The FRA Master Web Service (http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/masterwebservice/default.aspx ) is a term used to refer to the collection of web services provided by the FRA in support of its mission.

The FRA: RISPC Service provides RISPC users with functions to synchronize reference tables and get the latest software patches.

Registration required.

The Fraudulent 2009 H1N1 Influenza Products List (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/h1n1flu/ )is intended to alert consumers about Web sites that are or were illegally marketing unapproved, un-cleared, or unauthorized products in relation to the 2009 H1N1 Flu Virus (sometimes referred to as the “swine flu” virus). Note that until evidence to the contrary is presented to FDA, the owner of the listed Web site is considered responsible for promoting the unapproved, un-cleared, or unauthorized products. The uses related to the 2009 H1N1 Flu Virus are not necessarily being promoted by the manufacturers of the products.

Important note: Consumers are advised that FDA has not determined whether these Web sites include products promoted for uses not related to the 2009 H1N1 Flu Virus that are also illegally marketed because they are not approved, cleared, or authorized by FDA for those other uses.

The Gazetteer Query Web Service (http://gisdata.usgs.gov/XMLWebServices/TNM_Gazetteer_Service.php) returns the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) point from a copy of the USGS_GNIS datasets hosted at USGS/EROS. View the detailed Gazetteer Service Methods description for more information on the methods and parameters used in this service.

GeoCommunicator (http://www.geocommunicator.gov ) is the publication website for the distribution of spatial data from the U.S. National Integrated Land System and the Bureau of Land Management’s Legacy Rehost 2000 (LR2000) System. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency in the Department of Interior, is responsible for cadastral survey, land and mineral use authorization, and resource management on public lands in the United States.

Derive Land Description: Derive LD provides the ability pass the coordinates (latitude and longitude) of a shape (polygon) and have the land description (state,meridian, township, range, section, aliquot, lot) returned.

GeoCommunicator (http://www.geocommunicator.gov ) is the publication website for the distribution of spatial data from the U.S. National Integrated Land System and the Bureau of Land Management’s Legacy Rehost 2000 (LR2000) System. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency in the Department of Interior, is responsible for cadastral survey, land and mineral use authorization, and resource management on public lands in the United States.

Find Land Description: Find LD provides the ability to pass a land description (state, meridian, township, range, section, aliquot) and have the latitude and longitude returned for the coordinates defining the boundary of the land description.

GeoCommunicator (http://www.geocommunicator.gov ) is the publication website for the distribution of spatial data from the U.S. National Integrated Land System and the Bureau of Land Management’s Legacy Rehost 2000 (LR2000) System. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency in the Department of Interior, is responsible for cadastral survey, land and mineral use authorization, and resource management on public lands in the United States.

Survey Exporter- provides the ability to pass a textual land description formatted as state, meridian, township, range, section, aliquot and the values of the survey points, control points, and points/lines that make up the polygon are returned.

GeoCommunicator (http://www.geocommunicator.gov ) is the publication website for the distribution of spatial data from the U.S. National Integrated Land System and the Bureau of Land Management’s Legacy Rehost 2000 (LR2000) System. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency in the Department of Interior, is responsible for cadastral survey, land and mineral use authorization, and resource management on public lands in the United States.

Township Geocoder: The Township Geocoder provides the ability to pass the coordinates of a Latitude and Longitude (Lat/Long) and have the Township, Range and Section values returned in a file. Likewise, a textual land description formatted as state, meridian, township, range, section, aliquot can be passed and the value for the polygon centroid will be returned in Lat/Long format. There is also an option for bulk upload of a file containing a list of formatted Townships or Lat/Long values and have their respective Lat/long or Township values returned. This tool is useful for finding the land descriptions for well locations, pipelines, fires, etc. based on their lat/long location or for finding the coordinates of a land description for inputting into a gps or other device.

The Greenness Query Web Service (http://gisdata.usgs.gov/XMLWebServices/TNM_Greenness_Service.php) is designed to provide a method of easily identifying the Integrated Vegetation Mapping (IVM) and Drought Monitoring data values at a specific point. Since these are raster data layers, the normal identify method did not work. View the detailed USNG Methods description for more information on the methods and parameters used in this service. Visit http://gisdata.usgs.gov/ to view other USGS/EROS Web Services.

The Single Family Housing (SFH) HCS project is intended to assess the state of the housing counseling industry. Since the industry uses Client Management Systems (CMS) to track their counseling activities and their data, HUD is developing an interface to receive the HUD 9902 form, agency profile and client-level data from those existing systems. HUD-Approved agencies participating in HUD’s Housing Counseling Program are required to utilize a CMS product to automate their counseling services to collect, store, and transmit HUD required information.

The HCS ARM (http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/cms/arm-qirg-1203.pdf ) is a flexible and highly scalable data processing system based on Web Services technology Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

Registration required.

The Hearing Office Average Processing Time Ranking Report (http://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/05_Average_Processing.html ) is a ranking of the 143 ODAR hearing offices by the average number of days until final disposition of the hearing request. The average shown will be a combined average for all cases completed in that hearing office. Users will be able determine where a particular hearing office stands among the total with respect to this workload category.

The Hearing Office Dispositions Per ALJ Per Day Rate Ranking Report (http://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/04_Disposition.html ) is a ranking of the 143 ODAR hearing offices by the average number of hearings dispositions per ALJ per day. The average shown will be a combined average for all ALJs working in that hearing office. Users will be able determine where a particular hearing office stands among the total with respect to this workload category.

Hearing Office Workload Data (http://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/02_HO_Workload.html ) is a presentation of four key workload indicators (pending, receipts, dispositions and average processing time) for each hearing office in the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR).

The Hearings Held In-Person or Via Video Conferencing report (http://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/06_Hearings_Held.html ) is a listing by hearing office of the number of hearings held either in-person or by video-conferencing.

iMAX enables electronic submissions of certifications and vouchers into the Tenant Rental Assistance Certification System (TRACS) system. TRACS processes subsidy contracts, tenant rental assistance information, and owner requests for payment (vouchers). TRACS collects tenant and voucher data for project-based programs and authorizes payment for subsidy programs.

IMAX is a replacement for the TRACSMail system.

Registration required.

The ITIS (http://www.itis.gov/ ) is the result of a partnership of federal agencies formed to satisfy their mutual needs for scientifically credible taxonomic information. Since its inception, ITIS has gained valuable new partners and undergone a name change; ITIS now stands for the Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

The goal is to create an easily accessible database with reliable information on species names and their hierarchical classification. The database will be reviewed periodically to ensure high quality with valid classifications, revisions, and additions of newly described species. The ITIS includes documented taxonomic information of flora and fauna from both aquatic and terrestrial habitats.

Lake (Reservoir) Level XML Data (http://lakeinfo.tva.gov/xml/usage.htm ) includes detailed information about individual reservoirs i.e. date and time of gauge information, elevation immediately above and below the dam and the amount of water being discharged through the dam.

Latest Earthquakes: Merged Catalog (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/ ) is an XML file that contains all available parameters, including date, location, magnitude/magnitude type, number of stations/phases used for location, distance to first station, RMS/horizontal/vertical errors, and more. The minimum magnitude of events included in the XML merged catalog varies from region to region depending upon the density of the reporting networks.

Leadership PACs and Sponsors (http://www.fec.gov/data/Leadership.do?format=html ) lists the Leadership PACs that have registered with the FEC as a leadership PAC, along with the candidate or off ice holder they have identified as their sponsor. Candidates and members of Congress can create "leadership PACs" to raise funds to support other candidates for federal office.

Under the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on Administration, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House have collaborated with the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office to enable the creation of legislative documents using XML (http://xml.house.gov/ ).

Under the direction of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on Administration, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House have collaborated with the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office to enable the creation of legislative documents using XML (http://xml.house.gov/ ).

Lobbyist/Registrant Committee Statements of Organization (http://www.fec.gov/data/Lobbyist.do?format=html ) is a list of PACs that are established or controlled by lobbyists or others registered with Congress for lobby disclosure. Campaigns, parties and leadership PACs who received bundled contributions from these PACs may be required to disclose that bundling activity to the FEC.

MeSH (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ ) is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity. MeSH is updated annually and users of this information are encouraged to obtain the new year's data. The data are generally available by mid-November of the preceding year.

Registration Required.

Mineral Operations of Africa and the Middle East ( http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mineral-operations/africa-middle-east/ ) consists of records for over 1,500 mineral facilities in Africa and the Middle East. The mineral facilities include mines, plants, mills, or refineries of aluminum, cement, coal, copper, diamond, gold, iron and steel, nickel, platinum-group metals, salt, and silver, among others. Records include attributes such as commodity, country, site, company name, plant capacity if applicable, and generalized coordinates.

Mineral Operations of Latin America and Canada (http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mineral-operations/latin-america-canada/ ) consists of records for over 900 mineral facilities in Latin America and Canada. The mineral facilities include mines, plants, smelters, or refineries of aluminum, cement, coal, copper, diamond, gold, iron and steel, nickel, platinum-group metals, salt, and silver, among others. Records include attributes such as commodity, country, location, company name, facility type and capacity if applicable, and generalized coordinates.

MeF (http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=146364,00.html ) is a web-based system that allows electronic filing of corporate, partnership, exempt organization and excise tax returns through the Internet. MeF uses the widely accepted Extensible Markup Language (XML) format; an industry standard that is used when identifying, storing and transmitting data rather than the proprietary data transmission formats used by older e-file programs.

Registration required.

MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. Terra's orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon. Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS are viewing the entire Earth's surface every 1 to 2 days, acquiring data in 36 spectral bands, or groups of wavelengths (see MODIS Technical Specifications).

The MODIS Web Service (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/products/modis_overview ) provides users with subsets of MODIS Land Products. MODIS Land Product Subsets are derived from MODIS products that were generated with Collection 4 or later algorithms (http://daac.ornl.gov/MODIS/MODIS-menu/intro.html ).

My PAA (http://www.pbgc.gov/practitioners/premium-filings/content/page14933.html ) supports an XML specification that allows properly formatted filing data from an external source to be submitted to PBGC via My PAA. e-Filing requires that xml files be submitted and approved prior to the vendor being approved to file electronically.

NDBC (http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ ) designs, develops, operates, and maintains a network of data collecting buoys and coastal stations. NDBC provides hourly observations from a network of about 90 buoys and 60 Coastal Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations. All stations measure wind speed, direction, and gust; barometric pressure; and air temperature. In addition, all buoy stations, and some C-MAN stations, measure sea surface temperature, wave height and period. Conductivity and water current are measured at selected stations.

National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) (http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/ ) Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a service providing the public, government agencies, and commercial enterprises with data from the National Weather Service’s (NWS) digital forecast database. This service, which is defined in a Service Description Document, provides NWS customers and partners the ability to request NDFD data over the internet and receive the information back in an XML format. The request/response process is made possible by the NDFD XML Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) server.

The National Do Not Call Registry (https://telemarketing.donotcall.gov/) puts consumers in charge of the telemarketing calls they get at home. The registry exists to make it easier and more efficient for consumers to stop getting telemarketing calls they don’t want.

Access to the National Registry is limited to sellers, telemarketers, and other service providers. Registration is required

NEI (http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/eiinformation.html ) is a database containing data to help characterize emissions of criteria and hazardous air pollutants. Data is submitted by State and local governments tri-annually. The collection process also includes annual resubmissions and periodic corrections to the data.

Registration required.

The NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) (http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/ )is a Web-services based project providing both real-time and retrospective format independent access to climate and weather model data.

NVD (http://nvd.nist.gov/home.cfm ) is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data represented using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance. NVD includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws, misconfigurations, product names and impact metrics.

The NCBI Entrez Utilities Web Service enables developers to access Entrez Utilities (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esoap_help.html) via the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

EVS, http://evs.nci.nih.gov/aboutEVS?pid=primary.2007-05-30.7934139487&status=True , encompasses terminology development, terminology licensing, software development and licensing, and operations support activities. Starting in 1997, EVS has worked to harmonize and integrate the many diverse terminologies and coding frameworks used by NCI and its partners. EVS works directly with other NCI and partner organizations to create EVS content and adopt shared systems. EVS is active in NIH-wide harmonization initiatives, federal standards development efforts, and other standards development organizations, helping develop terminology resources and software tools to facilitate compatible coding, retrieval and aggregation of biomedical information.

LexEVS, https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/Vocab/KC/index.php/LexBig_and_LexEVS , represents the next generation of NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services. The LexBIG Java API and LexGrid model have become the strategic EVS interfaces, replacing the legacy EVS API and the EVS 3.2 model.

The NETSTAT Report (http://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/01_NetStat_Report.html ) is a presentation of the average time (in months) from the hearing request date until a hearing is held for claims pending in the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review's hearing offices. Allows users to estimate the amount of time they may have to wait for a hearing to be held.

NCAP (http://ogd.nhtsa.gov/ ) rates vehicles to determine crash worthiness and rollover safety. The safety ratings are gathered during controlled crash and rollover tests conducted at NHTSA's research facilities. Vehicles with a rating of five stars indicate the highest safety rating, whereas a one star indicates the lowest rating.

NPPES EFI (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/07_efi.asp ) is a capability within NPPES that enables the electronic submission of applications and data change requests by EFIOs (Electronic File Interchange Organization) for large numbers of health care providers. NPPES was developed by CMS to uniquely identify health care providers, assign each a National Provider Identifier (NPI) and to disseminate information in accordance with the System of Records Notice.

NPPES EFI is only available to those organizations that have been certified as an EFIO. For information regarding becoming certified, please visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/Downloads/EFISummary.pdf

The OCC's Quarterly Report on Bank Derivatives Activities (http://www.occ.treas.gov/deriv/deriv.htm ) is a quarterly report prepared by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency which is based on information from the Reports of Condition and Income (call reports) filed by all insured U.S. commercial banks and trust companies as well as other published financial data. That report describes what the call report information discloses about banks' derivative activities. Beginning second quarter 2009, these reports were also made available in XML format.

The mission of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) (http://www.osti.gov/) is to advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the American people. Ongoing strategies for accomplishing this mission:

• Collaborate within DOE to develop and maintain an efficient, state-of-the-art access and delivery Program.
• Partner with others to facilitate national and international cooperation and information exchange.
• Develop, deliver, and maintain information products and services for a variety of constituencies.
• Implement department-wide STI policy and best business practices.
• Preserve STI, in tangible copies or electronically, as appropriate.
• Accelerate the diffusion of knowledge to advance science.

OMNI data, http://www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/OMNI/ws/OMNIdataWebService.cfm , Web Service Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a service providing the public, government agencies, and commercial enterprises with data from the OMNI database. This service provides OMNI customers with the ability to request OMNI report data over the internet and receive the information back in an XML/XSL format.

ORCAXML (https://orca.bpn.gov/help/orcaxml.aspx ) is a B2B (Business to Business) web application that receives user customized requests for ORCA information from a client application on one or multiple records and returns the requested data in real-time using the XML format. The transaction is sent using SOAP or HTTPS POST technology and is encrypted via SSL.

Access to ORCAXML will be limited to qualified Government sponsored systems. Users will be required to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement.

The Organization Descriptions from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) (http://www.archives.gov/open/dataset-org.html ) contains a highly detailed presentation of the evolution of names and administrative histories of Federal and non-Federal organizations. It is used by the National Archives and Records Administration to track the organization that created records, and as a source of access points for indexing archival descriptions and/or other authority records with consistent headings.

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) XML Files (http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAXML ) are reports provided by OIRA in XML format to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Act requires that when a Federal agency wants to conduct an information collection (as defined in the legislation), it must first be approved by OIRA, and the Act prescribes a procedure for obtaining public input. Approval can be for a period no longer than three years. When OIRA approves an Information Collection Request (ICR), an OMB control number is assigned.

The Current Inventory report is a list of all currently approved information collections.

The PRA Expiration Report is a list of recently expired ICRs (i.e. ICRs whose expiration dates have passed without a request for renewal by the agency).

The Paperwork Pending report is a listing of ICRs that have been submitted by agencies to OIRA and are currently under review.

The Paperwork Reviews Concluded report is a list of reviews completed in the last 30 days

Marketable securities can be bought, sold, or transferred after they are originally issued. The U.S. Treasury uses an auction process to sell these securities and determine their rate or yield. The auctions are announced in advance in most major newspapers and through press releases. Pending Auctions (http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/auctions/res_auctions_ann.htm ) are also announced on the TreasuryDirect.gov web site.

Marketable securities can be bought, sold, or transferred after they are originally issued. The U.S. Treasury uses an auction process to sell these securities and determine their rate or yield. The auctions are announced in advance in most major newspapers and through press releases. Pending Auctions (http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/auctions/res_auctions_ann.htm ) are also announced on the TreasuryDirect.gov web site.

XML Files are not available for years prior to 2008.

PUG SOAP is an interface to PubChem’s (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pug_soap/pug_soap_help.html) specialized search and analysis services – chemical structure searches, full record downloads, etc.

Public Company Bankruptcy Cases Opened and Monitored for Fiscal Year 2009 (http://www.sec.gov/open/datasets.shtml#bankruptcy ) contains a list of the bankruptcy cases for public companies filed under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code opened and monitored in the fiscal year 2009. The data includes the District Court, the state, the company name, assets, and liabilities.

QUICK (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/newhire/quick/quick_about.htm ) is a tool to improve the quality and timeliness of customer service responses. QUICK is a browser-based application that allows an authorized user to view case data from another State in real time. The Financial module presents financial and basic case data. The Case Activities module provides information on business actions taken by the other State, including NCP Locate, paternity, order establishment, and enforcement activities, as well as case status and contact information for the worker in the other State.

QUICK is only available to states. To participate in QUICK and gain the ability to view data from other participating States, a State must agree to make data from its CSE system available to those States as well.

The Division of Practitioner Data Banks (DPDB) is responsible for the implementation of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB). The NPDB contains information on actions against physicians and dentists. The HIPDB contains information on actions against health care providers, suppliers, or practitioners.

QRXS (http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/qrxs.html ) is ideal for queryers and reporters who store and manage their subject and report data within their own information or credentialing systems. The QRXS automates query and report submissions to the Data Banks and returns responses in a format that can be easily loaded into users' information systems.

Registration is required and registrants must meet eligibility requirements.

Recovery.gov (http://www.recovery.gov ) is a user-friendly, public-facing website to foster greater accountability and transparency in the use of covered funds. Recovery.gov is a portal or gateway to key information relating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Investments permitted by the Act are made as contracts, grants or loans. Information about the recipients of these investments can be downloaded over the internet as XML files.

The RIDB (https://www.recdata.gov/RIDBWeb/Controller.jpf ) is a warehouse of information about Federal recreation sites with the ability to export the data to state tourism portals, recreation-related businesses, etc. It is also the “back end” supplying data to the Recreation.gov portal for trip planning information regarding more than 3,000 Federal recreation sites.

A password is required.

The service provides the ability to combine data from USGS's NWIS and EPA's STORET systems. The service will produce data formatted according to the Water Quality Exchange (WQX) Outbound XML schema, which has been developed collaboratively by EPA and USGS. Applications such as internet portals can use the web services to access data from both NWIS and the STORET Warehouse without needing an authorized database connection.

The Results Web Service retrieves water-quality results (measurements) by site.

RxNorm provides normalized names for clinical drugs and links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including those of First Databank, Micromedex, MediSpan, Gold Standard Alchemy, and Multum. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary.

The RxNorm API (http://mor.nlm.nih.gov/download/rxnav/RxNormAPI.html) is a web service for accessing the current RxNorm data set.

SAFER (http://www.safer.fmcsa.dot.gov/ ) offers company safety data and related services to industry and the public over the Internet. Users can search FMCSA databases, register for a USDOT number, pay fines online, order company safety profiles, challenge FMCSA data using the DataQs system, access the Hazardous Material Route registry, obtain National Crash and Out of Service rates for Hazmat Permit Registration, get printable registration forms and find information about other FMCSA Information Systems.

Registration Required.

A web service (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/ ) for search and retrieval based on Z39.50 semantics.

In the bioinformatics community, the use of multiple identifiers for the same gene or protein is a general problem. A SEGUID is a protein sequence identifier based on the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) digest of the primary sequence and is an attempt to deal with the problem. A SEGUID is stable for the lifetime of a protein and is used as the central identifier while all other aliases are treated as dynamic properties. Everyone can derive the same SEGUID from the sequence information, which allows easy data sharing. The use of SEGUID ensures that proteomics data is resilient to changes in annotation databases and the reports generated reflect the most recent annotations collected from sequence databases.

The SEGUID Proteome Database (http://bioinformatics.anl.gov/seguid/ ) provides aliases for the annotated entries available from several public databases and can be downloaded or generated easily at remote sites.

The SOAP-Match web service (http://bioinformatics.anl.gov/seguid/soapmatch.aspx ) is designed to search a number of protein databases for a pattern using Regular Expressions (REGEX).

The Shuttle Photo and Video Archive (http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/ ) contains images and movies that depict some of the preflight, launch and landing activities conducted at KSC for Space Shuttle Missions. Multiple resolutions are available: 2640x2040 (high), 1024x768 (medium), 320x240 (low). All high and medium resolution images are 24-bit color JPEGs, the low resolution images are GIF's. Photos are available for 1950, 1958 – 2005.

SkyView (http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ) is a Virtual Observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray.

The CCR/PRO-Net linkage (http://pro-net.sba.gov/dsbs/ws/dsp_publicservices.cfm ) was part of a comprehensive strategic effort to transfer PRO-Net's functions to the E-Gov Business Partner Network (BPN) in order to simplify government-wide vendor registration. The network is part of the Integrated Acquisition Environment (IAE), one of the e-government initiatives under the President's Management Agenda. IAE is carrying out OMB's mandate for new processes to streamline federal acquisition by creating common integrated business processes for buyers and sellers in the federal marketplace. The network incorporates DOD's CCR database. On Jan 1, 2004, CCR assumed all of PRO-Net's search capabilities and functions. Small businesses will no longer need to manually register in both PRO-Net and CCR.

The SOAP Proximity Service (http://ecos.fws.gov/tat_services/WebServices.do#soap ) Determines the proximity of a NWI wet land to a longitude/latitude point.

The Soil Data Mart (http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/) provides a single point of delivery of official soil survey data & information.

SPIDR, http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/index.jsp , is designed to allow a solar terrestrial physics customer to intelligently access and manage historical space physics data for integration with environment models and space weather forecasts. SPIDR is a distributed network of synchronous databases and 100% Java middle-ware servers accessed via the World Wide Web. By enabling easy data mirroring and eliminating the network bottlenecks associated with transcontinental links, the distributed system architecture is a key factor for low latency in multimedia data visualization and fast data delivery.

The SPIDR FileService is used to load data into the SPIDR database.

SPIDR, http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/index.jsp , is designed to allow a solar terrestrial physics customer to intelligently access and manage historical space physics data for integration with environment models and space weather forecasts. SPIDR is a distributed network of synchronous databases and 100% Java middle-ware servers accessed via the World Wide Web. By enabling easy data mirroring and eliminating the network bottlenecks associated with transcontinental links, the distributed system architecture is a key factor for low latency in multimedia data visualization and fast data delivery.

SDN (http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn/ ) is an integrated and comprehensive list of designated parties with whom U.S. persons are prohibited from providing services or conducting transactions and whose assets are blocked. The names on this list include persons designated under country-based and list-based economic sanctions programs, as well as individuals and entities designated under the various executive orders and statutes aimed at terrorism. Persons designated under E.O. 13224, E.O. 12947, or the AEDPA are included on this integrated and comprehensive list and are called “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” or “SDGTs”, “Specially Designated Terrorists” or “SDTs” , or “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” or “FTOs”, respectively.

SSC (Satellite Situation Center) (http://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/ ) is a system to cast geocentric spacecraft location information into a framework of (empirical) geophysical regions and mappings of spacecraft locations along lines of the Earth's magnetic field. This capability is one key to mission science planning (both single missions and coordinated observations of multiple spacecraft with ground-based investigations) and to subsequent multi-mission data analysis.

If you are developing an application that requires satellite location data based upon updated, predictive and definitive ephemeris for the satellites maintained at the SSC, then the SSC Web services can be used to avoid developing and maintaining this data and software yourself. The following describes how to utilize these services from your own application.

The service provides the ability to combine data from USGS's NWIS and EPA's STORET systems. The service will produce data formatted according to the Water Quality Exchange (WQX) Outbound XML schema, which has been developed collaboratively by EPA and USGS. Applications such as internet portals can use the web services to access data from both NWIS and the STORET Warehouse without needing an authorized database connection.

The Station Web Service will provide information for all monitoring locations within a given geographic area.

STORET (http://www.epa.gov/storet/index.html) is a repository for water quality, biological, and physical data. The Project Catalog Web Service (http://iaspub.epa.gov/webservices/ProjectCatalogService/ ) provides project summary information such as the period of record, characteristics monitored, and station names.

STORET (http://www.epa.gov/storet/index.html) is a repository for water quality, biological, and physical data. The STORET Result Web Service (http://iaspub.epa.gov/webservices/StoretResultService/ ) provides direct access to STORET results.

STORET (http://www.epa.gov/storet/index.html) is a repository for water quality, biological, and physical data. The Station Web Service (http://iaspub.epa.gov/webservices/StationService/ ) provides information for all monitoring locations within a given geographic area (geographic bounding box).

STORET (http://www.epa.gov/storet/index.html) is a repository for water quality, biological, and physical data. The Watershed Summary Web Service (http://iaspub.epa.gov/webservices/WatershedSummaryService/ ) provides summary information for the types of data (Organizations with data, number of stations, result counts by characteristic type, etc) available within a given watershed (8-digit HUC).

TAP, which is available at http://eplus2.lbl.gov/tariffs/, is a comprehensive data warehouse of utility tariffs and query tools designed to accurately and precisely calculate utility bills. TAP consists of a growing library of 100s of tariffs from over a hundred utilities which have been stored using a generic data format that is compatible with a variety of tariff structures. But TAP is not only a repository of tariffs, it is specifically designed to help consumers, analysts, and engineers calculate and evaluate their actual energy costs and cost savings based on actual tariffs; not estimated bills based on average prices. TAP captures detailed tariff structures, such seasonal charges, time-of-use rates, and complex block structures which if ignored can create significant error in calculating the economic impact of new technologies. Using TAP, decision makers can easily evaluate the precise economic benefit of various technological designs and management alternatives.

Use of onTAP requires registration.

The Threatened & Endangered Species Query Access data source (http://ecos.fws.gov/services/TessQuery ) provides remote data access to Threatened & Endangered Species information.

Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) are securities whose principal is tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). TIPS/CPI Data (http://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/tipscpi/tipscpi.htm ) refers to the CPI data used by the Treasury to in its TIPS principal calculations. TIPS/CPI data is published monthly.

A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol or design, or a combination of words, phrases, symbols or designs, that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others. Trademark Daily XML (https://eipweb.uspto.gov/SOMS/start.swe?SWECmd=Start&SWEHo=eipweb.uspto.gov ) is a dataset of 3 files issued daily: Applications, Assignments and TTABs.

Applications
Pending and registered trademark text data (no images) to include word mark, serial number, registration number, filing date, registration date, goods and services, classification number(s), status code(s), design search code(s), pseudo mark(s) in Calendar Year 2009 (January through December).

Assignments
Trademark assignment text data (no images) in Calendar Year 2009 (January through December).

TTAB
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) text data (no images) in Calendar Year 2009 (January through December).

The TTB & Pay.gov Upload Process (http://www.ttb.gov/epayment/upload_process.shtml ) is used for filing electronic payments/returns for federal excise taxes and operational reports. These filings are in the form of XML files with each filing type requiring a different type of XML file (see http://www.ttb.gov/epayment/blank_xml.shtml for samples of the different XML file types).

The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, as amended by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, requires those who have registered as lobbyists to file quarterly activity reports with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Secretary of the U.S. Senate (http://lobbyingdisclosure.house.gov/).

En-route to the passage of a bill or resolution, the House of Representative will hold roll call votes. A roll call vote is a call of the roll of Members to determine whether a quorum is present, to establish a quorum, or to vote on a question. Roll call votes are available in XML format.

Active Legislation is a list of current bills that have been receiving legislative or media attention.

Due to the high volume and complexity of its work, the Senate divides its tasks among 20 committees, 68 subcommittees, and 4 joint committees. Although the Senate committee system (http://www.senate.gov/general/common/generic/about_committees.htm ) is similar to that of the House of Representatives, it has its own guidelines, within which each committee adopts its own rules. This creates considerable variation among the panels.

The United States Senate makes the schedules of its committees available in XML format. Those schedules can be downloaded over the internet.

The United States Senate makes contact information for each senator available in XML format that can be downloaded over the internet.

The US Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act Databases (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/LDA_reports.htm ) were created in response to Section 209 of HLOGA which requires the Secretary of the Senate to make all documents filed under the LDA, as amended, available to the public over the Internet. LDA documents are included in two, downloadable databases: Lobbying Database and Contributions Database. Downloadable lobbying document files include all documents received during a given calendar quarter.

The Lobbying Database includes the lobbying registrations (LD-1) and reports (LD-2). The Contributions Database is limited to the documents filed under section 203 of HLOGA (LD-203), the first of which was required to be filed by registrants and lobbyists by July 30, 2008.

Section 103 of HLOGA requires the Secretary of the Senate to notify Members and certain employees separating from the Senate about their post-employment lobbying contacts with the Senate and to post information contained in the notice on the Internet.

En-route to the passage of a bill or resolution, the Senate will hold roll call votes. A roll call vote is a call of the roll of Senators to determine whether a quorum is present, to establish a quorum, or to vote on a question. Roll call votes are available in XML format.

UTQG (http://ogd.nhtsa.gov/ ) was developed by the NHTSA to assist consumers purchasing new vehicles or replacement tires. NHTSA has rated more than 4,200 lines of tires, including most used on passenger cars, minivans, SUVs and light pickup trucks using a grading system known as the Uniform Tire Quality Grading System (UTQGS). UTQGS allows consumers to compare tire tread wear, traction performance and temperature resistance.

The USNG Web Service (http://gisdata.usgs.gov/XMLWebServices/TNM_USNG.php) returns the United States National Grid Coordinate for a specific latitutde/longitude point or the Latitude/longitude for a USNG position.

The USA.gov FAQ knowledgebase is updated monthly, and includes all of the fields that you see in the USA.gov FAQ knowledgebase (http://answers.usa.gov ). The fields include the topic(s), question, answer, and when the FAQ was last reviewed.

USAspending.gov (http://USAspending.gov/ ), as mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, for each federal award provides:

1. the name of the entity receiving the award;
2. the amount of the award;
3. information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc;
4. the location of the entity receiving the award;
5. a unique identifier of the entity receiving the award.

This information is provided as an easy to use website and in a machine readable format i.e. XML.

The Thesaurus and Glossary (http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt.shtml ) are online vocabulary tools of agricultural terms and are cooperatively produced by the National Agricultural Library, USDA, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture through the Orton Memorial Library.

The USGS NWIS service (http://waterservices.usgs.gov/ ) provides for the XML-based delivery of all USGS historical daily values data contained in the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS). The service provides access to the 295 million individual daily values of hydrologic data contained in NWIS including about 200 million individual daily stream flow values some of which are from stream gage records of over 100 years in duration. These data also include about 14 million daily water levels in wells, about 13 million daily temperature values, and about 6 million daily specific-conductance (salinity) values.

The USGS NWIS Instantaneous Values REST Web Service (Experimental) (http://waterservices.usgs.gov/rest/WaterML-Interim-REST-Service.html ) is being made available until a production-class instantaneous unit values water web service comes online. This interim service can be used to retrieve recent values for stream flow (as well as other real-time parameters served by the USGS). This service provides recent real-time USGS water data in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.

Be advised that:
• The service is not considered production-class
• The service is considered experimental
• The timeliness of the data served is not guaranteed

the UV Index (http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/uvindex.html ) predicts the next day's ultraviolet radiation levels on a 1-11+ scale, helping people determine appropriate sun-protective behaviors.

The VSO (http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/vso/) is an interconnected system of software to permit consumers to easily find and request data products of interest. As of this writing, there are two main functions of the VSO -- finding data products (acting as an Access Aid), and negotiating for the delivery of data products (acting as an Ordering Aid).
The VSO unites access to space- and ground-based observations of the Sun. This allows anyone who has an interest in solar data to find image and other data files to search using traditional instrument names, by type of data (e.g., "magnetogram") or by event (e.g., data associated with a particular solar flare or active region).

VSTO (http://vsto.org/ ) is a web service used to retrieve the VSTO data access URLs for a given Instrument and time interval. Optionally the results can be constrained to a specific parameter type and/or a specific data product.

The Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO) is a unified semantic environment serving data from diverse data archives in the fields of solar, solar-terrestrial, and space physics (SSTSP), currently:

• Upper atmosphere data from the CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) archive
• Solar corona data from the MLSO (Mauna Loa Solar Observatory) archive

VSPO (http://vspo.gsfc.nasa.gov ) is an effort to make data resulting from all missions relevant to the global problem of the effects of solar particles and fields on the Earth and the solar system (a "Heliophysics Great Observatory") easily available. The basic philosophy, shared with the Virtual Solar Observatory and many other such projects, is to register data products from disparate repositories using a common language that allows searching across datasets, retrieving data, and performing analysis and visualization in a uniform way.

WATERS (http://www.epa.gov/waters/geoservices/index.html ) is an integrated information system for the nation's surface waters. The EPA Office of Water manages numerous programs in support of the Agency's water quality efforts. Many of these programs collect and store water quality related data in databases. These databases are managed by the individual Water Programs and this separation often inhibits the integrated application of the data they contain. Under WATERS, the Water Program databases are connected to a larger framework. This framework is a digital network of surface water features, known as the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). By linking to the NHD, one Water Program database can reach another, and information can be shared across programs.

WATERS (http://www.epa.gov/waters/geoservices/index.html ) is an integrated information system for the nation's surface waters. The EPA Office of Water manages numerous programs in support of the Agency's water quality efforts. Many of these programs collect and store water quality related data in databases. These databases are managed by the individual Water Programs and this separation often inhibits the integrated application of the data they contain. Under WATERS, the Water Program databases are connected to a larger framework. This framework is a digital network of surface water features, known as the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). By linking to the NHD, one Water Program database can reach another, and information can be shared across programs.

A variety of web tools (http://www.usps.com/webtools/welcome.htm ) that provides Address and Delivery Information, Rate Calculators and Carrier Pickup APIs.

Address Information APIs
Helps ensure that mailing addresses are correct.

Delivery Information APIs
Check estimated delivery times prior to mailing or check the delivery status of package after mailing.

Rate Calculators APIs
Determine postage rates based on weight, class of mail, and origin/destination information.

Carrier Pickup™ APIs
Submit a request online to have carrier pick up packages when carrier arrives with regular mail delivery.

Note: You must register with the USPS prior to using this service. After you register, you will be provided with SERVER_URL, SECURE_SERVER_URL and USERID for the test servers (see Example). Once testing is complete, you can apply for access to the production servers at which time you will be provided with new URLs.

The National Weather Service provides access to observed current weather conditions for about 1,800 locations across the United States and US Territories. Two file formats designed for computer to computer data transfer are provided. RSS and XML lists are provided to aid the automated dissemination of this information. Each location is assigned a unique code. You will have to visit their site to determine the code assigned to your location of interest. Once the code has been determined, the xml can be downloaded from:

    http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/????.xml

where ???? represents the code for your chosen location

All of the location codes are available for download at http://weather.noaa.gov/tg/site.shtml .

XML View of Complete Guideline Summaries (http://www.guideline.gov/about/tsxml.aspx ) are summaries of complete NGC Guidelines in XML format. The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. It’s mission is to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.