IRMA and the National Resource Information Portal

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IRMA and the

National Resource Information Portal

2010 Resource Information Management Conference

April, 2009


• 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.


What’s the Portal?

NRInfo = Natural Resource Information Portal

http://nrinfo.nps.gov

Visible results of the IRMA project


NRInfo Home Page


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


• Available to all NPS users

• Additional functionality and data added every few months

• Publicly available in 2011 (Non-sensitive data)


References

NatureBib

NPS Data Store

Reference Application

Approx. 250,000 records


Enter search term and draw search box for area of interest


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


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.


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

Taxonomic Information


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


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…


The NRInfo Portal is not the only way

to access data…


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


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


Dynamically create reference lists


other possibilities for data exchange…


USGS Prototype Access to Publications Warehouse – 70,000 records


Data Sharing and Integration with NPS Technical Information Center

e-TIC SOA framework Two-way data exchanges possible


ITISCollaborating on exchange specifications;

Receive taxonomy record updates via web services


NBII: can integrate NPS data into its portal next year


USFWS ECOS data system pilot


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.


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


Also:

Wednesday, 10:00 – NPSpecies in the NRInfo Portal

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


nrinfo.nps.gov

IRMA and the National Resource Information Portal

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