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Data Sharing: Progress Report. National Water-Quality Monitoring Council July 20, 2004. Overall Workplan. Create web portal Site common view Sample common view Result common view Data standards. Increasing Level of Difficulty. Window to My Environment. EPA web site Integrates data
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Data Sharing: Progress Report National Water-QualityMonitoring Council July 20, 2004
Overall Workplan • Create web portal • Site common view • Sample common view • Result common view • Data standards Increasing LevelofDifficulty
Window to My Environment • EPA web site • Integrates data • EPA & USGS • Map Interface
WME: Grand Canyon, AZ NWISWeb
Current Activities • Site Type • Common view • Source-system upgrades • Coordinated update of reference lists • Improve aggregation frequency to discourage creation of stale data copies • NWISNWISWeb improvements • STORET vers. 3.0 requirements analysis
Rendezvous • Science drives databases. • Systems are evolving. • Enhancements to data-sharing needs. • Meet at portal.
Rendezvous Relay NWIS NWISWeb Portal STORET Warehouse STORET
Key Findings: GAO Report • Cites barriers to QW coordination • Recommends lead organization • Endorses the “portal” concept
Caveats • Process will take time and resources. • Improvements needed to source systems as well as the portal. • Meanwhile, copying data is counterproductive.