Northwest Data Sharing Network: 2005 Annual General Meeting

1. Northwest Data Sharing Network:2005 Annual General Meeting Don Morgan Executive Director, Northwest Data Sharing Network

3. Annual Report

4. Mission of NWDSN Timely, co-ordinated, co-operative, and innovative use of geo-spatial data sets to reduce the cost of data ownership and improve decision-making about land use in our region.

5. Common Interests • sharing information • collaboration • Resource monitoring • Sustainable Forest Management • Land Use Planning • IFPA • Operational forestry • First Nation Accommodation

6. NWDSN Vision • Government data management centralization • Need for local data management • Promote data ethic: • Taking responsibility for information • Not abdicating to a remote authority • Ensuring information is the best available • Maintaining ownership and value

7. NWDSN Vision • Higher Level of Organization • Identify and promote local business data needs • Develop collaboration: • Share costs • Validate local information • Provide up to date information to government to honour intent of data sharing agreements • Promote and develop data standards

8. NWDSN Vision • Business Needs: • Corporate interests: • Companies want data sharing entities • Focus on local needs • First Nations interests: • Review industrial activities in territory • Provide FN interests to resource developers

9. NWDSN Vision • Business Needs: • Government interests: • Custodian engagement • FSP data identification • Links to local data • Engage FN’s and companies in a formal way

10. Implementation • Background Research • What’s worked elsewhere? • Establish Governance • Data Survey • Who has what? • What format is it in? • Load Data to Service Provider • Enable Data Viewing and Exchange

11. Participants • Industry: Canfor, Weldwood, West Fraser, L&M, Babine Timber Sales • First Nations: Wet’suwet’en • Government: Skeena Region MSRM, WLAP, Skeena-Stikine Forest District • University of Northern BC • Northwest Community College • Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resource Research and Management

12. Governance • What makes it work! • Clearly identify the business need • Form society before implementation • board membership • Develop trust • Keep it simple • Formalize policy structures • manage expectations • Business Planning - Business Case

13. Governance • Data sharing policy defines: • Custodianship • permissions - user/data specific • non-member access • membership • funding • rules and regulations • external partnerships

14. Accomplishments • Organizational • Governance established • Board of directors • Technical committee • Partnerships • UNBC, NWCC • BV Centre • IT companies • Membership Funding

15. Accomplishments • Technical • Inventory identification • Data loading • Data modelling • Data viewing • Inventory coordination – blocks and roads

17. Budget

18. NWDSN Funding • Membership Funds: • NWDSN administration • Infrastructure Management • Connection to LRDW • UNBC hosting • Map service maintenance • Web site hosting • Filling project gaps • Integrate operational projects with NWDSN

19. NWDSN Funding • 2005/2006 Project Funding • MSRM RMD LRMP monitoring • IFPA SFM monitoring • Linked Projects • FII Forest Science Projects • GEOIDE • SFM network • Federal MPB • Federal Climate Change

20. Cost Recovery Options • Charge for annual access (require data sharing agreements with government) • Kispiox licensees • Woodlot owners • NRFL holders • Community forests • Fees for service • Requires staff • Cost of setup

22. Past Year’s Activities

23. Who does the work? • The Board • Set NWDSN strategic direction and vision • Maintain societies policies • Develop and approve budget • Approve annual operating plans • Project priorities • Direction to Technical Committee

24. Who does the work? • Technical Committee • Project management, review and sign off • Identify and develop standards • Oversee infrastructure • Technical forum for data and technical issues • Advise board: • Recommendations • Guidance • Standard Operating Procedure

25. Who does the work? • Executive Director • Board & Technical Committee Coordination • Coordination of priorities and issues • Project management with Technical Committee • Promoting data ethic and management • Track NWDSN policy • Web page maintenance • Investigate funding opportunities

26. Who does the work? • Contract • UNBC • Housing local and business data • FTP access, access permissions • Web Map Service • Technical integration with projects • IT contractors • Project specific

27. Who does the work? • MSRM • Links to provincial initiatives • Links to LRDW • Member data requests • Ongoing data Management

28. Current Projects • Data Upgrade • Pacific Inland Resources • Fraser Lakes Sawmill • Coordination with IFPA DSN project

29. Current Projects • IFPA Data Sharing Network Project • Block/road aggregation; • Automated aggregation • ESF+ standard • Government standard • Data download: • Link to government corporate data • Local & business data • Data Viewing

30. Current Projects • Identification of “Best Available Information” • Data sources: • Licensee data holdings • Government • LRDW • Local data • First Nations • Process • Validation through NWDSN technical committee • Update Meta data to reflect status • Identify to MSRM

31. Ongoing Projects • Data review and validation • Boundary matching • Data identification and access • Local custodian, custodian delegate • Cultural heritage • Accessing cultural information • FN accommodation

32. Project Sub-committees • Monitoring Sub Committee • Chair – Jim McCormack • Members – Andy Mumma, Don Morgan, Scott Emmons, Jaret VanDerGiessen • Geoconnections Sub Committee • Chair – Scott Emmons • Members – Don Morgan, Jim McCormack, Allen Baxter • Best Available Data Sub Committee • Chair – Cheryl Delwisch • Members – Jim McCormack, Tim Penninga, Jaret VanDerGiessen, Tom Olafson

34. 2005/2006Operating Plan

35. Future Projects • Meta data update • Link to Best available project • FSP data identification and organization • Updates to data translation • West Fraser changes • Data maintenance • Road conflation • Edge matching • Off line data • Hydrology • Stream Stability • Orthophotos, Satellite imagery • Monitoring SFM/LRMP/WSP

36. Linked Current Projects • GEOIDE • Public Access: • Public advisory groups • Community resource boards • On line Decision Support tools • Sustainable Forest Management Network • SFM toolkit

37. Linked Future Projects • Mountain Pine Beetle • Forest Science Program: • Monitoring • Nadina Landscape model • Stand models – FSP • Federal MPB funding • Community support funding • Climate Change • Community resilience • Western Economic Diversification • Rural capacity building

39. Opportunities and Challenges • Funding • Charging non members • Cost recovery • Non member access • Non-members taking advantage of member investment • West Fraser • Weldwood acquisition • Change in operational data management • Working with non members in the same administrative unit • NRFL • New Members • Nadina Field Services • WLAP

40. LRDW and NWDSN • NWDSN: • Local Level/Trust • Business Relationships • Organize and Share • TSA/LRMP/IFPA/FN • Business Processes • Project Data • Local Contact • User Perspective • LRDW: • Provincial Level/Trust • Corporate Relationships • Source/Access/Retrieval • Province Wide • Standards & Infrastructure • Corporate Data • Provincial Contact • Custodian Perspective

41. Extent • Current : • Morice • Lakes • Bulkley • Future: • Kispiox • Kalum

42. Next Steps • Finalize NWDSN SOP • Continued data maintenance, investigation, loading and coordination • Forest Stewardship plans • Plan monitoring • Cultural heritage data standard and sharing • Tightening links with MSRM corporately