Standard Code Management

• Guide S21, Classifying Ministry Data Using Corporate Code Tables
• Guide S38, Data Administration Standards (includes overview of Org Unit, TSA, Tree/Log Species code structures)

Availability of Corporate Codes

• Corporate codes defined within MoFR are available through the Corporate Code Section of IDD.
• Before creating a new code, check IDD to ensure the code does not already exist.

Data Administration Role

• The Data Administration group manages corporate code updates for ministry data custodians. The corporate code tables were established as a means of storing and managing ministry codes and making their definitions available throughout the ministry. Program areas doing new application development are encouraged to re-use existing codes rather than re-inventing the wheel and creating multiple meanings for the same data.

Background

• Business area data custodians are responsible for defining data classification codes to clarify and standardize business data within their area of expertise. As use of these codes is often cross-program to ministry-wide, they are held in corporate code tables with additions/updates/deletions managed carefully due to cross-ministry impacts.
• Data Administration is responsible for managing updates to the full set of ministry data classification codes. For the last several years DA staff have been reviewing code requests and updating corporate code tables. The DA group has also created standards for the development and update of ministry corporate codes.