Natural Resource Program CenterInventory & Monitoring Program

IRMA

and the

National Resource Information Portal

2010 Resource Information Management Conference

April, 2009

Natural Resource Program CenterInventory & Monitoring Program

• What’s IRMA? What’s the Portal?

• How can I use the Portal?

• What’s coming next?

• What’s the bigger picture? (Steve Fancy)

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What’s IRMA? IRMA = Integration of

Resource Management Applications.

Goal is to integrate natural resource data applications Eliminate redundant data storage; streamline functions

Create a central web portal, single sign-on system, common user interface

Transition to service-oriented architecture (SOA), starting with NPSpecies, NatureBib, and the NPS Data Store.

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What’s the Portal?

NRInfo = Natural Resource Information Portal

http://nrinfo.nps.gov

Visible results of the IRMA project

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NRInfo Home Page

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How can I use the Portal?

As of today: • Search for and retrieve documents or data• Get park species information• Link to other information sources

By the end of May, 2010:• Create or edit records for documents or data

sets• Upload associated files

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• Available to all NPS users

• Additional functionality and data added every few months

• Publicly available in 2011 (Non-sensitive data)

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References

NatureBib

NPS Data Store

Reference Application

Approx. 250,000 records

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Enter search term and draw search box for area of interest

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record is created via upload process; original metadata record is stored and not lost or modified

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Reference Application Summary:

- Now: search for documents and data; download related files

- May: create new records; edit existing records, “bundle” related records; spatial search

By the end of May, NatureBib and the NPS Data Store applications will be retired.

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Taxonomy service available to search and crosswalk with multiple taxonomic systems.

Taxonomic Information

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NPSpecies Summary:

- Now: get species lists, associated status data, lists of park where species occur; taxonomy searches

- May: View “match lists” of federal T&E species, state sensitive, G-Ranks, etc.

Release 9 (Fall, 2010): create-edit records

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Goal is to integrate resource information systems

NR and GIS Data Store SystemNR Biological Inventory System - NPSpeciesNR Bibliography Inventory System

o Research Permit and Reporting Systemo Public Use Statistics Office and Reporting Systemo NPS Water Rights Docket Files o Alien Plant Control and Mgt Databaseo NPS Endangered Species Act Databaseo And more…

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The NRInfo Portal is not the only way

to access data…

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REST-style Searches (representational state transfer)

Construct URLs to fetch data and documents directly

Example: link to fetch data and documents on

elk in ROMO:

http://services.nrinfo.nps.gov/reference/

reference/list/romo/elk

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Any NPS Web page can automatically be updated using REST

Elk research

Search code can be embedded in web pages; search is dynamically executed each time

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Dynamically create reference lists

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other possibilities for data exchange…

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USGS Prototype Access to Publications Warehouse – 70,000 records

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Data Sharing and Integration with NPS Technical Information Center

e-TIC SOA framework

Two-way data exchanges possible

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ITISCollaborating on exchange specifications;

Receive taxonomy record updates via web services

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NBII: can integrate NPS data into its portal next year

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USFWS ECOS data system pilot

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In Summary…

This is a start.

• First of many releases– development is iterative

• NRInfo Portal has to work for you. Your ideas and input are essential.

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User Feedback Sessions: Ram’s Room, Tues-Thurs afternoons

What do you like? What doesn’t work? What’s clunky? What’s missing?

Great opportunity for you to influence portal design and functions

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Also:

Wednesday, 10:00 – NPSpecies in the NRInfo Portal

Wednesday, 4:15 - Run-through of Reference Application

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nrinfo.nps.gov