October 20th 2006

Northwest Power and Conservation Council

Stewart Toshach & Peter Paquet

NED Project Coordinators

Background - for the

CBFWA Review of StreamNet and NHI

Programs

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BACKGROUND

NED is following the recommendations of the Independent Scientific Review Panel (2000) and Scientific Applications International Corporation (2003) Studies

NED MOU developed in December 2004

Background material is posted at http://www.nwcouncil.org/ned/Default.asp

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NED GOAL

To improve the quality, quantity, and availability of regional data and related information on fish, wildlife and water using a publicly supported approach to information systems management

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Signed MOU and participating: BPA, EPA, NMFS -NWFSC and NWRO, USACE, CRITFC, State of the Salmon Consortium, NPCC, PSMFC, BC Integrated Land Management Bureau, States of Washington and Oregon.

Not signed but participating: USBoR, USFS, USBLM, USGS, USFWS, NWIFC, States of Montana and Idaho.

MOU & STEERING COMMITTEE

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HOW NED FITS IN

FEDERALFRAMEWORK

NORTHWESTCONTENTGROUPS

STATE/PROVINCIALFRAMEWORK

NED FISH,

WILDLIFE & WATER

DATANETWORK

SUBBASINPLANNING

WATERQUALITY/QUANTITY

PNAMP

BIOLOGICALOPINIONS/RECOVERY

FGDC metadata.standards

NSDIgeospatial portal

National MapBase Mapping

Themes

Trans/Boundary

WAGIC

OGIC

IDAHO GIS

PNW_RGIC

Montana

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Temporal & Spatial. Joy Paulus, WA IAC

Technology for Data Discovery and Sharing. Tom Pansky, BPA

Salmonid Monitoring and Research. Stewart Toshach, NED

Subbasin Planning Data. Peter Paquet, NPCC & Phil Roger, CRITFC

Regional Aquatic, Riparian and Upland Habitat Data. Tom O’Neil, NWHI

Water Quality Data. David Tetta, EPA

NED WORK GROUPS & LEADS

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PRODUCTS

Best Practices for Reporting Locational and Time Related Data

Check List for Organizing Field Collection and Management of Data (Draft)

Best Practices for Data Dictionary Definitions and Usage (Draft)

Completed recovery and integration of Subbasin EDT data and reach system data (NWHI)

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PRODUCTS (Continued)

Inventory of Water Quality and Other Related Databases for the Pacific Northwest

Data Base Inventory of Data Definitions for Riparian and Upland Species

White Papers for 2005 Regional Data Sharing & Discovery Workshop and Executive Recommendations

Findings of 2006 Regional Environmental Data Sharing Workshop

Hosted PNAMP Data Management Meetings

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PRODUCTS (Continued)

Researched, installed, tested and deployed a Northwest Environmental Data Network Portal see: http://nppc.bpa.gov/Portal

Completed NED Portal Channels and Data Steward Roles and Responsibilities Guidance

Completed NED Portal Data Sharing Agreement

Cross-Walks of PCSRF, PISCES & other data dictionaries

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Summary Regional Data Network Strategy and Needed Action

1. Build participation in MOU.

2. Move beyond the current ad-hoc arrangements for long term return on investment.

3. Focus on data standards, data stewardship, data quality (low cost - high impact).

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Summary Regional Data Network Strategy and Needed Action

4. Maintain data definitions in an on-line regional data dictionary (evaluate Protocol Builder).

5. Work on data discovery and sharing. Populate and staff the NED Portal.

6 Migrate towards a DDBMS (distributed database management system) to connect regional databases into a coherent network.

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OPERATIONAL MODEL

Regional Environmental SubjectArea Specialists

Regional InformationSystem Specialists

Streamnet

NWHI

PNWWQX

OGIC/NSDIstandards/framework

WA IAC,SWIMTAC

PNW-RGIC

PSMFC -PITAGIS,

FPC, DART

FederalAgencyPortals

Other State,Tribal data

bases/portals

Develop/deploy datasharing standards to

permit common queries,improved QA/QC andmetadata reporting.

Develop training tools.Maintain regional data

dictionary.

PCSRF

State Fishand Wildlifeprograms

FCRPS-subbasin

pilots

PNAMP

TribalPrograms

Federalagency

programs

OWEB

SubbasinPlanning

NED Challenge:document data

collection methods,understand subjectarea language as a

foundation forregional data sharing

and standards useWA SRF Bd

State WaterPrograms

Link standardsuse to project/

programdeliverables.

Coordinate back andforth on solutions

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Questions and Answers

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COMPARISON

Warehouse approach

Distributed database management system (DDBMS)

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Data

Data

Data

Central Data Base

Repository

Internet

Data Providers

Internet

Data User

Data User

Data Providers

Data Providers

Internet

Data Base Warehouse Approach

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Data

Data

Data

Internet

Data Providers

Internet

Data User

Data User

Data Providers

Data Providers

Internet

Distributed Data Base Management System Approach

EXCHANGE NODE

Exchange formatsallow data integrationbetween contributing

data bases

Published metadatadata directory locates

data

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Principle: Collect Once & Roll upPress

releases,

presentations

Public

Annual reports,

Planning documentsResearchers and managers

Graphics, maps,

environmental quality

“report cards”, indicators

Technical staff, research

managers, public

Statistical summaries

and graphs

Modelers, researchers,

statisticians

Data tables, data sets, metadataModelers,

researchers

Raw data: field data, laboratory resultsField & lab

scientists

Press

releases,

presentations

Public

Annual reports,

Planning documentsResearchers and managers

Graphics, maps,

environmental quality

“report cards”, indicators

Technical staff, research

managers, public

Statistical summaries

and graphs

Modelers, researchers,

statisticians

Data tables, data sets, metadataModelers,

researchers

Raw data: field data, laboratory resultsField & lab

scientists

Number of users

Data size

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PRINCIPLE – DATA CYCLE

data submission

data collection

Integrate these

Processes data storage

data sharingdata access

feedback

data analysis