national park service u.s. department of the interior inventory & monitoring program

National Park ServiceU.S. Department of the Interior

Inventory & Monitoring Program

Natural Resource Information Portal

nrinfo.nps.gov

Margaret Beer, I&M Data Manager 2011 George Wright Society Meeting, March 17, 2011

National Park ServiceU.S. Department of the InteriorNatural Resource Program Center

October, 2006 - NRPC Data Management Policy

• “…NRPC will create a central web portal, a single sign-on system, and develop a common user interface for all natural resource applications…”

• “ NRPC will integrate all applications, eliminate redundant data storage, and streamline standard functions...”

• “ NRPC systems will transition to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This transition will strategically position NRPC to better deal with future changes in technology…”

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NRInfo Portal Essentials

- Authentication: system knows who you are and what you can do, without usernames and passwords

- Standardized look, feel, navigation throughout

- Managed Access: NPS and public

- Sensitivity, Proprietary status, Quality assessment: managed at the record level

- The portal isn’t the only way to reach the underlying data

NRInfo Portal Essentials

- User Requirements: hundreds of users and potential users interviewed during development process

- Iterative Development: Short development cycles; functionality added or improved with each cycle

- Performance: will be getting better!

- Much to improve.

NRInfo Portal – on deck

- Public Use Statistics: work will begin this year to integrate application into the portal

- Inventory Tracking: Integration by the end of the fiscal year

- T&E species, RPRS, APCAM: currently being considered for conversion and integration

- Geospatial capabilities: expanding with each release

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NRInfo Steering Committees

Reference NPSpecies Portal

Portal Steering Committee Overall portal functionality, look, feel,

navigation, layout

Portal Steering Committee – other ideas one tab called “search” bring back the name “data store” tabs based on function, not subject specific searches or ways to retrieve

“authoritative” data sets “human use” tab is confusing to cultural

staff look at Google’s use of links in upper-left

corner of its home page look at Databasin.org website etc.

NrinfoMake NRInfo my home page

Search

We need your ideas, suggestions, gripes, concerns, requests.

Nrinfo_feedback@nps.gov

Or

Brent Frakes, Alison Loar, Kathy Dratch, Margaret Beer, Peter Budde