You have been previously informed on the development work BMDW is performing to improve the donor/cord data submission services. The development includes mainly the following features:

• Acceptance of a different file format (XML)
• Streamlined web-based BMDW data upload service
• Processing and validation based on the XSD files
• Improved reporting and downloading functions

As part of these changes we have been communicating the XML schema definitions files before and a proof of concept upload platform was used by some users to upload their test XML files. All those users have received the validation results and revised test XML files can be uploaded again on the new BMDW data upload service later today.

• If you received login details of the previous test upload platform, you will get a welcome email today with instructions how you can access the new BMDW data upload service.
• Also people who requested already access before or who sent their XML file by email, will receive the welcome email with instructions.
• If you also finished your test XML file and would like to get access to the BMDW data upload service, please send us an email to support@bmdw.org . We will then create an account for you and a welcome email will be send to gain access to the service.

Important file requirements (also described in the new manual on BMDW public access)

• All files need to be encrypted with the new BMDW public key
• Files larger then 200Mb needs to be compressed by ZIP
• File naming should be in accordance with the guidelines

PLEASE NOTE: The existing public key for submitting .dot 20 format files for production remain unchanged. The new key is only for XML files.

We are still working on the automatic data upload method through an API connection to the new data upload service. Once we have completed that development, we will be in touch again with relevant details in order for organisations to use this method for submitting their XML files.

We would like to encourage all organisations to start uploading their new XML file to this data upload service as it gives your organisation the opportunity to make relevant changes to the XML prior to going live. This is also very valuable for our development work as with testing files we can validate our work and resolve as much issues as possible. Please be aware that the new BMDW data upload service is running on a development server. Therefore, you may notice outages, changes to your data, or even find some functions broken and giving errors. These potentially issues are either due to new functional deployments taking place or their being a bug in the software. If you do come across any bugs or defects, please do report these as well as any other feedback by sending an email to support@bmdw.org.