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Master Veteran Index (MVI) Service

Metadata Updated: April 21, 2022

The authoritative source for person identity data. Maintains identity data for persons across VA systems. Provides a unique universal identifier for each person. Stores identity data as correlations for each system where a person is known. Provides a probabilistic matching algorithm. (Includes MPI, PSIM, and IdM TK) Maintains a gold copy known as a Primary View of the persons identity data. Broadcasts identity trait updates to systems of interest. Maintains a record locator service.

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Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2022

Metadata Source

Harvested from VA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2022
Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
Maintainer
Identifier 64b048b3-e55e-49ce-b86f-615a47451b2c
Data First Published 2018-02-23
Data Last Modified 2022-03-22
Rights Protected by Privacy Act and/or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Public Access Level restricted public
Bureau Code 029:40
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id ca652912-3881-4259-bcbc-c646b1575c96
Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
Harvest Source Title VA JSON
Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/c7db-tep2
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Program Code 029:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash ac60e7711559d8776e9d12ce356c4e857a224b92
Source Schema Version 1.1

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