The NRInfo Portal as the Springboard for DOI-Wide Collaboration

Brent Frakes, Functional Analyst

Challenges for Data Sharing, Integration, Dissemination to Address Climate Change Need to discover, share, have access to large

holdings of data and information to address rapid climate change e. g., geospatial data, imagery, water quantity & quality,

soils, vegetation, invasive species, land cover and use, status and trends of plant and animal populations, to name a few

Multiple scientific and resource management disciplines Multiple scales, multiple agencies

Data are stored at thousands of locations in a variety of formats; many methods needed to access them

Most of the data and information we need exists or will exist in databases and sources outside of the DOI

DOI-Wide Climate Change Strategy Ken Salazar’s Secretarial Order #3289

(September 14, 2009) Titled “Addressing the Impacts of Climate

Change on America’s Water, Land and Other Natural and Cultural Resources”

Emphasis on climate change science, adaptation, and mitigation

Requires that critical data be shared among scientists in many groups and in many different organizations

Established teams to figure out how to implement

Teams

Data System Design Team - Focused on the development of the information system architecture, systems integration and system implementation and operations

Integration, Observations and Assessments Team   - Identifying the necessary common data sets needed to identify key environmental indicators and address resource management issues.  Provide guidance for developing standards for the collection, use and assessment of information

Teams’ Purpose

Ensure a cohesive strategy for observations and data management

Chartered to develop a strategy, design and implement plan An integrated research and long-term

observing network built on an alliance of existing and new DOI and partner programs

An enterprise data discovery, integration, and management system for organizing, synthesizing and disseminating information

Team MembersBureau/Office NumberNational Park Service (NPS) 2Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) 4Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE)

4

Geological Survey (GS) 11Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 2Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 2Bureau of Reclamation (BR) 2Department of Interior (DOI) 4Office Management and Budget (OMB) 1

Major Milestones

September / October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011

Deputy Secretary’s Memo (9/3)

TeamKick-off

(10/22) National

LCC Workshop (11/2 –

11/4)

Scope and Objective

Defined (11/10)

Stakeholder

Analysis (11/15)

Target SolutionPhases (11/26)

Candidate Solutions Identification (12/1)

Data Integration Team Workshop (12/7 – 12/9)

• Scenario review• Candidate solution

evaluation• Identification of national

scale critical datasets• Governance concepts• Final Report elements and

structure

Solutions / Functions

Matrix (12/17)

OCIO Briefi

ng(12/22

)Initial Rough Draft Report

(12/30)

First Draft Target

Architecture (1/4)

Task Force Briefing

(1/7)

Report Delivered (1/31)

LCC/CSC Leadership Briefing

(1/12)

OCIO Briefing (1/28)

Team Recommendations …the National Park Service – Natural Resource Program

Center’s Natural Resource data and Information Portal (NRInfo Portal) has been identified as having the core capabilities upon which the enterprise solution can be based. While this solution is currently primarily focused on the needs of the National Park Service, it has been developed with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach that is in line with the enterprise solution…and it should provide the capabilities to deliver immediate term results as well as a platform to support future needs…

…the NR Info solution upon which the Enterprise Service Bus will be established also has core data catalog capabilities that employ the Dublin Core standard. Thus, by leveraging this standard and the NR Info catalog capabilities, the Enterprise Information Solution can be implemented in a more rapid manner…

The Goal of Web Services Each agency

maintains their data systems, yet make portions of their data available for sharing by using a common set of standards and processes.

NPS

FWS

USGS

NASA

NOAA

States, Tribes

Bureau “Ologists”

Land Managers &

Planners

Researchers

NOAA

General Public

Data.gov

LCC or other Portals

NPS

FWS

USGS

NASA

NOAA

Shared Data

Internal Data

User Communitie

s

Taxonomy File Identity Units Notification

Reference

NPSpeciesResearch Permitting

and Reporting

Vouchers

Inventory Tracking

Primitive - Common

Aggregate- Specialized

Ideal Web Services• Modular• Build once and reuse• No redundancy of functionality• Supports unstructured and structured

enterprise information

Match Lists

Proposed Major Implementation Stages – Phase One

Phase One – Immediate Actions (February – September 2011)

Proposed Major Implementation Stages – Phase Two

Phase Two – Longer Term Strategic Actions (FY11 – FY12)

Current Status of this Proposal Waiting for review, funding and approval

by DOI Very optimistic budget schedule NPS is a key leader in the integration of

information across the DOI