National Park ServiceU.S. Department of the Interior

Inventory & Monitoring Program

Inventory & Monitoring Program

Data Management: The first ten years, and on to the second

decade

Margaret Beer, I&M Data Manager 2011 George Wright Society Meeting, March 15, 2011

January, 2001

In 2000, about five people in NPS called themselves“data managers.”

NPS Data Management Conference,

Ca. 2000

By the end of 2001, 12 permanent I&M network data managers were hired

By 2010: well over 70 I&M staff work specifically in network data management or GIS

In 2010, the Data Management and GIS Conference had over 200 attendees.

curation & archiving

database design

FOIA, OCIO, DObudgets and project

management

website management

records management

GIS, geography, cartography,

communications & outreachQA-QC

GPS, mobile computing

NPSpeciesNatureBib

NRDT SQL, VB, VBA

Data Management Challenge: How does it all fit together? How does it all get done?

NPStoret

Metadata

Slide from 2005

Accomplishments of the Data Management Community

…the first 10 years

- 32 Data Management Plans + a National Data Management Plan

- Natural Resource Database Template developed and refined – hundreds of instances now in use

- 700+ protocols uploaded, each with a data management component

- Thousands of Geospatial data sets, imagery, remote sensing data acquired and managed

Accomplishments of the Data Management Community

Progression of reference cartography

Quarter-Quad Delivery

Park MosaicsWeb Map Services - Seamless

Florissant Fossil Beds

Accomplishments of the Data Management Community

- Hundreds of species lists certified in NPSpecies

- Hundreds of reports produced under the Natural Resource Report Series

- Network SharePoint, Internet, intranet sites created and managed

Accomplishments of the Data Management Community

- Annual conferences

- Webinars, listservs

- Mentoring of new staff

- Thousands of records created and files uploaded to NRInfo

- Plus: curation, archiving, communication, administration, tech support, project management, mobile computing, records management…

Data Management Technical Reviews• Criteria and process developed by workgroup of 12 data

managers in the course of 2010

• Voluntary self-assessments

• Results starting in May

• Outcome will help set the course for next 5-10 years

Keys to Success

- Cooperation – open sharing of skills and knowledge

- Strong bottom-up approach

- Talent

- Persistence

Data managers,

2010

Data Warehouse“The Hopper”

Search Tools for Finding Things in the Hopper:

NatureBibNPSpeciesNR-GIS Search ToolNPS Focus

Inventory data setsGIS projectsMonitoring resultsResearch dataStudies funded by park base, NRPPFire Program

Condition Assessments:Occasional analyses, synthesis by parks, with funding & expertise assistance from WCA & I&M

Routine analysis and reporting by networks and cooperators

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…”

 

Testing Role-based Teams

User Interface Consistency

User Requirements

Iterative Development

Reporting Portal Help Auditing Error Handling

F o u n d a t i o n

Processes

Frameworks

Supporting ServicesIdentity Feedback Notification Park Units File

Resource DataSpecies References Observations Vouchers Taxonomy

Steps taken to build a solution and modernize systems

Hardware Software Staff Organization

nrinfo.nps.gov

But there isope . . .

• Based on web services and common data exchange standards.

• Based on widely-used industry standards.

• Approach is the OMB and DOI standard promoted for all federal agencies.

• We can integrate and share data among data systems.– Within NRSS/NRPC– Within NPS– With external partners and data sources

NRInfo Portal Essentials

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

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Data Discovery and Sharing within NPS

Elk Research

Data discovery and sharing among systems

USGS Publications Warehouse 70,000 records

USFWS ECOS data system

Harvesting of data by external sites

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

“ [NRInfo Portal] has been identified as having the core capabilities upon which the enterprise solution can be based. “

CLIMATE CHANGE

With apologies to the Department of Defense

Session Reminders:

Today, 4:00-6:05 – NPSpecies workshop

Wednesday Afternoon: 1:30 on… GIS & Data Management Open House (Oakley)

Thursday, 1:30 -3:35: Reference workshop

Thursday, 4:00-6:05: NRInfo Portal