Progress to date

The initial task of the NECDS Working Group was to develop national data standards for mortgages, discharges and transfers to allow electronic lodgment of these registry instrument types.  By early 2009, draft requirements for transactions between NECS and Land Registries had been developed and the working Group moved on to the requirements for transactions between Industry and NECS. 

The purpose in developing data standards is to convert these draft requirements into XML schema that fully describe the content of Web Services messages between NECS and Land Registries.  To facilitate this, the NECDS Management Group in mid 2009 endorsed the development of a single, controlled vocabulary for terms used in the NECS environment including wherever possible their synonyms used in the various States and Territories.  A sub-group of the Working Group was tasked with developing the NECS Vocabulary and late in 2009 it was made available to all Working Group members for review.  In due course, the NECS Vocabulary will be merged with the LIXI Vocabulary as part of the XML schema production activity.

The National Office with the assistance of Ajilon Australia Pty Ltd has reviewed the Working Group’s draft requirements documentation and supplemented it with a message use case specification.  The requirements documentation consists of separate Operations and Administration & Maintenance requirements for NECS/Land Registry and Industry/NECS transactions and the message use case specification covers all four requirements documents.

The NECS/Land Registry Operations requirements documentation is available here. 

The NECS/Land Registry Administration & Maintenance requirements documentation is available here. 

The Industry/NECS Operations requirements documentation is available here.

The Industry/NECS Administration & Maintenance requirements documentation is available here.

The Message Use Case Specification for all of the above requirements is available here. 

These documents are drafts only and are currently being reviewed by the Working Group.  If you are a LIXI member you can provide input to the documentation here. Following the Working Group’s review, it is expected that a first draft of the XML schema for NECS/Land Registry transactions will be commissioned.

Comments on any aspect of the NECDS work and the above documentation is welcome here.

For more information on the development of the NECDS, contact National Office Operations Manager, Ann Kinnear on (03) 8626 4520 or here. 
 

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