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Oregon Explorer

Oregon Explorer. Project Demonstration NRIC Aug 4-6, 2007 Andrea Wirth, Oregon State University Libraries. What is Oregon Explorer?. Natural resources digital library Provides access to multi-format information for places of interest tools for integration and synthesis people resources

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Oregon Explorer

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  1. Oregon Explorer Project Demonstration NRIC Aug 4-6, 2007 Andrea Wirth, Oregon State University Libraries

  2. What is Oregon Explorer? • Natural resources digital library • Provides access to • multi-format information for places of interest • tools for integration and synthesis • people resources • context of issues through stories • Place-based resource

  3. Why OE? • OE Vision and goals • technology • accessibility • partnerships • decision making support • OSU Strategic Plan (2004) • Sustaining natural resources is one of OSU’s five thematic focus areas

  4. Why OE? • Digital Initiative • Need! • In 2000, a report on the state of the environment in Oregon found that information was not accessible to natural resources decision makers and others with an interest in Oregon’s natural resources. (Oregon Progress Board) Before OE: “If you’re just someone that wants to know about a place, it’s tough, and people get frustrated” - Gail Achterman at OE Launch, 6/28/07

  5. OE Creators • Partnership between and • Team members with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise • Partners for basin and topic portals

  6. What’s next? • Portals • Wildlife • Land use • Imagery • Rural Communities • Spatial Data • Fixing, fine tuning, bugs, improvements • integration of map tool and literature searches • Visioning, evaluation, role definition

  7. Admin tool • Home grown • Allows editing from various contributors • OE team • Remote contributors • Technical Writer • Partnership for Umpqua Rivers

  8. McCall talks of the problem of Oregon losing its credibility as the “environmental model of this nation” through the “unfettered despoiling of our land”

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