DIW public guides for factories: data-readiness checklist

The recovered public-source record states: DIW public guides cover several factory matters, including factory licences, boilers, gas activity and waste movement out of a site. It confirms only the described event, not that a company has obtained eligibility, approval, benefit or a compliance conclusion.

Define the business use case and boundary first. State the decisions, legal entities and systems in scope, and use one actual equipment, activity or waste-removal flow as the rehearsal case; keep any unsupported state as unconfirmed.

Create a data catalogue covering at least applicable matter, source version, legal entity, premises and equipment, licence or notice record, inspection, operator, contractor, waste movement and evidence. Give every field a business definition, format, system source, accountable function, update timing and acceptable evidence.

Standardise identifiers for entities, counterparties, documents, projects or transactions, retaining aliases and historical versions. Do not merge on names alone or overwrite a version referenced by past activity.

Map every state in guide source and applicability → obligation or process item → owner → licence or activity record → inspection and transaction evidence → exception → review to its source document, owner and timestamp, with a visible queue for missing, conflicting, stale or unauthorised data.

Test completeness, consistency, timeliness and traceability on a small sample and record gaps instead of inventing values. Expand only after operations, finance and IT sign off the boundary.