1. 1 FPDS-NG Data dissemination Atom feed Demo

2. 2 Agenda Introduction FPDS-NG Atom Feeds Demo Feedback & Questions

3. 3 Evolution of data dissemination methods –2000 and earlier – Flat files with fixed positions (for ex. CSV and fixed length files) –2001 to 2004 – Flat files with flexible formats (for ex. XML formats) –2004 to 2008 – Data feeds using web- services –2008 onwards – Data Feeds using ATOM Introduction

4. 4 FPDS-NG Atom Feed FPDS-NG Atom feeds are based on industry standard Atom 1.0 format Detail Atom feed specification is defined at http://www.fpdsng.com/wiki/index.php/Atom_F eed_Specificationshttp://www.fpdsng.com/wiki/index.php/Atom_F eed_Specifications

5. 5 FPDS-NG Atom Feed Format

6. 6 FPDS-NG Atom Feed Atom feeds are configurable to search using all the data elements defined in the FPDS-NG V1.4 data dictionary Payload includes the detailed contract information Data is paginated 10 Complete Award/IDVs per page Next and previous

7. 7 FPDS-NG Atom Feed The public ATOM feed site is https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAM E=PUBLIC&q https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAM E=PUBLIC&q Your search criteria would be appended to this url. For example, if you wanted data from a specific data, for a specific agency you would enter: https://beta.fpdsng.com/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PU BLIC&q=LAST_MOD_DATE:[2006/04/02, 2007/04/02] AGENCY_CODE:"4740" If you are unsure of the data element tags you can use the ezSearch advanced search function to assist you. Go to https:\\www.fpds.gov and activate the ezSearch function. Click on the Advanced Search button and then click on Add (see slide 8) Select the data element(s) and provide the criteria for those elements (see slide 9)

8. FPDS-NG Atom Feed FPDS-NG ATOM FEED

9. Copy the part of the url that speaks to your search critera (see below)

10. FPDS-NG ATOM FEED Paste that criteria in public atom feed url: Public atom feed: https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLI C&q https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLI C&q Examle of a Public atom feed with the criteria pasted in: https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLI C&q=+%20AGENCY_CODE%3A%221406%22 https://www.fpds.gov/dbsight/FEEDS/ATOM?FEEDNAME=PUBLI C&q=+%20AGENCY_CODE%3A%221406%22 Readers: Any feed reader can be used to pull the data Use wget to pull the information