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Southeast Alaska Network Inventory & Monitoring Program March 16, 2011 Bill Johnson Leveraging the power of NPS’s Natural Resource Program Center information platform to benefit an individual I&M network

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Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory & Monitoring Program March 16, 2011

Bill Johnson

Leveraging the power of NPS’s Natural Resource Program Center

information platform to benefit an individual I&M network

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Our Design Considerations

Accessibility required for cooperators, partners, and NPS staff

Limited staff resources

Restricted IT capabilities

Staff turns over

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NRPC’s Offering MS SQL Server database platform

Web server

Business continuity components

External Internet web presence

Responsive technical support staff

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Infrastructure Schematic

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External / Internal Web Presence

PROTOCOL RETRIEVAL

CONTACTS

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Example: Online Reporting

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Example: Data Retrieval Query

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Example: Query Results

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Worldwide Discoverability

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Drawbacks Requires technical expertise in building

web sites and SQL databases

Trades off flexibility for integrity and functionality

Relies on outside provider’s performance for success

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Advantages System reliability and responsiveness World wide availability Data security High capacity at low cost Once established, provides data to

customers without staff involvement One platform to maintain Web services / Web 2.0 hooks

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Contacts The web-connected database:

http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sean

The web-connected data manager: [email protected]