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NPS Focus

Resource Information Management Division National Information Office of the Chief Information Officer. NPS Focus. Christie McDonald Digital Data Manager/Developer Resource Information Services Division. NPS Focus Background. Images, documents, metadata Public and Internal sites

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NPS Focus

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  1. Resource Information Management DivisionNational Information Office of the Chief Information Officer NPS Focus Christie McDonald Digital Data Manager/Developer Resource Information Services Division

  2. NPS Focus Background • Images, documents, metadata • Public and Internal sites • Service-wide scope • Launched in 2000 • Library catalog records • Federatedsearching • Web service Wonder Lake, Denali National Park and Preserve

  3. http://npsfocus.nps.gov

  4. http://focus.inside.nps.gov

  5. NPS Focus Records • Digital Images • Pretty pictures – Maps • Park assets – Historic photos • Park features – Scanned text • Park events – Museum objects • Interpretive images • JPG and TIF • MrSID encoding Yosemite National Park

  6. NPS Focus Records • Digital Documents • Photos – Letters • Articles – Scanned text • Drawings • Historical Documents • Annual Reports • Technical Reports • PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT • DjVu encoding Cape Hatteras National Seashore

  7. NPS Focus Records • As of 4/17/2010 • ~115,000 metadata records • >64,000 data files • >230,000 images/documents • Many multi-page/image files Big Hole National Battlefield

  8. Digital Collections in NPS Focus • Parks/Regions/Programs • Midwest Region Office Map Catalog • Southeast Archeological Center • Mission 2000, Spanish Mission Records • Abandoned Mine Lands Program • Civil War Digital Collection • Submerged Resources South Carolina State Monument

  9. NPS Focus Records • Who populates Focus records? • PMIS users • Parks • Programs • Southeast Archeological Center • Mission 2000 • Abandoned Mine Lands • Facilities Management Mexican Spotted Owl, Zion National Park

  10. PMIS Records in Focus • NPS Budget Office (PMIS) • Image service with NPS Focus • Link PMIS records to images in NPS Focus Olympic National Park

  11. ARRA Records in Focus • NPS Office of the Director (ARRA) • ARRA funding via PMIS • 4 photos in NPS Focus linked to PMIS record • Demonstrate to Congress • Good use of ARRA $ • Benefits to local economies • Benefits to parks & visitors Robert S. Abbott House

  12. NPS Focus Workflow Image(s) • ARRA Workflow: Create PMIS record Create record and upload images to NPS Focus Link PMIS record to Focus images Repeat as needed More Images? Stones River National Battlefield

  13. NRHP in Focus • National Register of Historic Places • > 88,000 metadata records • Nomination form + images • > 172,000 images/documents Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park

  14. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/

  15. Facilities Managementin Focus • Facilities Management Division • Images of assets • Condition assessment • Buildings, trails, equipment, etc. • Integration with NPMap Happy Isles, Yosemite National Park

  16. NPMap Integration • NPS Focus records discoverable in NPMap • Geographic search if geospatial coordinates populated • Unit and text search • NPMap links to NPSFocus based on: • related record ID • geospatial coordinates Badlands National Park

  17. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/

  18. Metadata Standards • Dublin Core • 26 elements (not all required) • Most repeatable • NPS Digital Photo Metadata Standard (DPMS) Core • FGDC • NPS Bibliographic Metadata Application Profile (BibMAP) Sequoia National Park

  19. NPS Focus Features • File Management Capabilities • Batch Upload • File compression • File viewers • paging • zoom and pan • File download options • Image web service • Embedded links • URL directed search Aster Flowers, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

  20. Uploading to NPS Focus • User authorization • Requires a DOI Learn training session • NPS Focus Digital Librarian • Full time user support • Greg Creamean • Assisted batch uploading • Help desk support Cape Hatteras National Seashore

  21. NPS Focus Migration • Migrated to Denver Data Center • Increased server management capabilities • Moved off out-of-maintenance servers • Improved server performance and stability Great Falls Park, George Washington Memorial Parkway

  22. NPS Focus Web Stats • Web Statistics • 3/12/2010 through 3/18/2010 • Total traffic through Denver DMZ by hits – 5.9 million hits • 2nd most accessed site – NPS Focus system sites with 5.7% of all traffic Bighorn Sheep, Arches National Park

  23. Future Integration • NPMap • IRMA • Technical Information Center (TIC) • InsideNPS • Other repositories • Contact us to partner! Fountain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

  24. Future Redesign • Additional rich media and data formats • Increased media viewing abilities • All applicable metadata standards • Embedded metadata support • Tools for embedded metadata • GPS Photolink • Geospatial Coordinates • Continuing to gather requirements North Dome, Yosemite National Park

  25. Thank You! • Questions? Contact the NPS Focus Team NPS_Focus@nps.gov Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

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