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Adaptive Management Portal

April 2000

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Adaptive Management Portal Objective

To make multiple, diverse, and reliable information from separate sites easily

accessible via a virtual library.

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Adaptive Management Areas

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Adaptive Management Portal System Description

An Internet-based catalogue, access, and retrieval system with dedicated service for Adaptive Management Area generated information. Key elements include:

Access to multiple sitesCollection PolicyMeta-information Content Standard

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Terminology- Based Access

Relevant Information Highlighted

(Base Info.)

User-Supplied Annotation

A Notional View

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1. Understand the customer requirements and opportunities

4. Architect and scale the information portal technology

2. Articulate and evolve the requirements for the system

5. Experimentally deploy the technology at Adaptive

Management Area sites

Figure 4: Major activities, with the relationship among the activities and the iterative development

3. Conceptually develop the information portal technology

Major influenceIterative influence

6. Evaluate the Project (will evaluate and influence all other major activities)

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1. Understandrequirements

2. Articulate systemrequirements

3. Conceptuallydevelop tech.

4. Architect andscale tech.

5. Experimentallydeploy tech.

6. Evaluate &Monitor

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

Figure 5: Schedule showing the level of work for each major activity, over time

developdevelop evolve finalize

prepare evolve finalizedevelop develop

developprepare finalizedevelop evolve

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evaluate evaluate evaluateevaluate evaluate

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RESEARCH OBJECTIVES Provide easy access to a distributed network Provide for local autonomy Provide a scalable system Provide an extensible design Explore and identify the use of standard

terminology Explore the capability for user-supplied

annotations

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1     Understand the customer requirements and opportunities

• Hold focus groups, workshops and interviews

• Assess the current information content • Query and work with other national and

international efforts • Evaluate the strengths and

corresponding marketing opportunities 

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How do we participate technically? Answer the questions

What kind of information would you want? What kind of information will you provide? What kind of “meta-information is needed? Which semantics need to be standardized?

Participate by providing, by using, by advertising

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How do we participate organizationally?

Answer the questions (examples): What should the collection policy be? What training is needed? For whom? What are the organization’s financial and funding capabilities? Who does data management? What expertise is available (including time)? What resource equipment is required? Available? Who are the customers? Why?

Participate by providing, by using, by advertising

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Adaptive Management PortalInteroperability

The ability of the user to search multiple and diverse sources (individual Adaptive Management Area sites) in an easy manner.

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How do we achieve interoperability?

standardized meta-data fields

standardized semantics

communications protocol

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Adaptive Management PortalCollection Policy

Provides guidance on the type of information which should be included as a part of the system.

Typically includes:types of eligible information resources,format for meta-data (catalogue) entries,quality of eligible information resources, andconditions for entering meta-data.

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Adaptive Management PortalMeta-information

Necessary auxiliary information needed to understand, locate, or search for information. Everyday examples include;

nutrition facts labelsbar codescard catalogues

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Adaptive Management PortalMeta-information Elements

Title Author or Creator Subject & Key Words Abstract or Other Text

Description Publisher (or AMA) Date Made Available Type (e.g. paper, www

page, dictionary) Format (e.g.. map, text)

Resource Identifier (e.g. ISBN, URL)

Source (if not original) Language Relation (conference,

compendium) Coverage (spatial and

temporal) Rights (copyright notice)

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Adaptive Management PortalProbable Add-ons

Discussion groups with conversation threads saved for future reference

Online newsletters and periodic documentsList server for announcements via e-mail Direct links to other compatible “nodes” e.g.

IUFRO’s Global Forest Information ServiceCalendar of AMA events and activitiesUser needs assessments via counters, surveys

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1. Understand the customer requirements and opportunities

4. Architect and scale the information portal technology

2. Articulate and evolve the requirements for the system

5. Experimentally deploy the technology at Adaptive

Management Area sites

Figure 4: Major activities, with the relationship among the activities and the iterative development

3. Conceptually develop the information portal technology

Major influenceIterative influence

6. Evaluate the Project (will evaluate and influence all other major activities)

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