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Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal

Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. Project Funding. Duration: 3 years - started August 2000 Budget: $1.5 million Principal financial sponsors National Science Foundation: Digital Government Program

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Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal

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  1. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM

  2. Project Funding • Duration: 3 years - started August 2000 • Budget: $1.5 million • Principal financial sponsors • National Science Foundation: Digital Government Program • Bureau of Land Management (Oregon State Office) • Forest Service (R-6 and PNW Station) • National Park Service (Western Region)

  3. Strategic Planning Region 6 USDA Forest Service Tim Tolle Computer Science OGI School of Science & Eng. OHSU Lois Delcambre Partnership Co-Project Directors

  4. Advisory Board Co-Inventor of the Topic Map Model Michel Biezunski President, IUFRO, Oxford Forestry Institute, Dept of Plant Sciences Jeff Burley USDA Forest Service Steve Solem Martin Goebel Sustainable Northwest MD, Asst. Professor, Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, OHSU Paul Gorman Executive Director, IMFN Secretariat Fred Johnson Chief, Office of Technical Support, Forest Resources, USDI Fish and Wildlife Service Monty Knudsen Communications Director, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station Cynthia L. Miner Science Advisor, USDI, National Park Service Regina Rochefort Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mark Whiting Forest/environmental expertise Computer science expertise

  5. Computer Science Lois Delcambre Dave Maier Mat Weaver Shawn Bowers Rupa Tummala Sun Murthy Management in Science & Tech. Fred Phillips Nicole Steckler Marianne Koch Balbinder Banga Environmental Science & Engineering Patty Toccalino Julia Norman The academic team Dave Hansen, George Fox Undergraduate students Kinley Campbell Emily Langston Jordan Wirfs-Brock

  6. Balance of three, parallel goals • Research….in cs, environmental science, in business, management, pschology/sociology • Development…deployment • Application…in the Adaptive Management Area Network of the Pacific Northwest

  7. Capabilities of The Forest Portal Document Upload File: Author: Title: Type: Contact: Notes:

  8. Capabilities of The Forest Portal Metadata Attachment Metadata Property Value

  9. Capabilities of The Forest Portal Keyword Search Search Keyword: Metadata Search Browse Category Location > Region 6 > Wenatchee National Forest BOR Road IssuesA memo to the U.S. Department of the … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Appeal Decision: Plum Creek Checkerboard …Final decision, pursuant to 36 CFR 215, appeal on … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Interstate 90 Final Record of DecisionDocuments my rationale and selection of Alternatives … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Interstate 90 LegislationConference report on H.R. 438, making Omnibus … [Metadata] [Similar Documents]

  10. Capabilities of The Forest Portal Similarity Search Metadata Property Value Using Browse Category Location> Region 6> Wenatchee National Forest BOR Road IssuesA memo to the U.S. Department of the … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Appeal Decision: Plum Creek Checkerboard …Final decision, pursuant to 36 CFR 215, appeal on … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Interstate 90 Final Record of DecisionDocuments my rationale and selection of Alternatives … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Interstate 90 LegislationConference report on H.R. 438, making Omnibus … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Find Similar Documents (through associated Metadata)

  11. Idea Box Try things out Get feedback Test Portal Documents Metadata CVs Use by specialists AMA initial Portal Documents Metadata CVs Use by AMA staff AMA production Portal Agency server & licenses Use by opencommunity Steps to an AMA Portal

  12. Major Track:Application Needs  Metadata Interviewing Identifying User Needs Articulating functionality Evaluating controlled vocabularies Choosing controlled vocabularies Preparing controlled vocabularies Representing/using metadata Metadata++

  13. Application Needs  Metadata The Problem, User Needs, Controlled Vocabs.Tim Tolle with active participation of FS, BLM, AMA, …Finding & Choosing Glossaries Tim Tolle with Kinley Campbell, Eric Landis Evaluating Controlled Vocabularies Julia Norman, Patty ToccalinoPreparation of Controlled Vocabularies(Computer Science Team) Rupa, Emily, ShawnMetadata++Primary research activity: Mat Weaver, Lois Delcambre, Dave Maier

  14. Major Track:How to build a portal? User Interface GIS functionality Metadata entry Document repository Metadata++ Document identification Portal products Distribution Gazetteer

  15. How to build a portal? Architectural Issues for the Forest Portal(Computer Science team) Dave Maier, Dave Hansen, Lois Delcambre, Mat WeaverDOIs, handles GIS, Gazetteer, connection to Metadata++Evaluating Portal Products(Computer Science team) Rupa Tummala, Mat Weaver, Dave Maier, Lois DelcambreEvaluation of MS Sharepoint, Oracle portal product, Greenstone digital library looking for: document repository, metadata attachment looking for tools to leverage

  16. Major Track: If we build it…will they come? AMA as a research consortia Successful/unsuccessful portals & business models Facilitators/Inhibitors of Information Sharing

  17. If we build it…will they come? Evaluating Portal Business ModelsBalbinder Banga, Fred PhillipsAnalyzing Research ConsortiaFred Phillips, Gary Summers, Jordan Wirfs-Brock  Inhibiting/Facilitating Information SharingNiki Steckler, Marianne KochCase Study of AMA CollaborationsVictoria Sturtevant

  18. Other Ideas Access document subparts? Introduce structure incrementally? Gather bits of information together (in bundles)? Look for snippets of structure?

  19. Building the Sandbox …to support similarity searchacross multiple domains

  20. Documents • “Document” used very loosely – could be just about anything • Vary in format (text, map, dataset, …) • Vary in purpose (formal assessment, informal letter, …)

  21. Traditional Metadata • Fields with values • May or may not use “controlled vocabulary” • Allows for basic searches Author: Parley Pratt Purpose: Environmental Assessment Location: Wenatchee National Forest Keyword: Interstate 90 Keyword: Snoqualmie Pass

  22. Enhanced Metadata Environmental Assessment • Instead of fields and values, we use explicit properties and terms • Metadata is represented by connecting a document with a term via a property Parley Pratt Purpose Wenatchee National Forest Author Location Interstate 90 Keyword Snoqualmie Pass

  23. Enhanced Metadata Keyword Snoqualmie Pass NEPA Interstate 90 Purpose Environmental Assessment Location Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Author Editor Parley Pratt

  24. Super Enhanced Metadata Keyword Snoqualmie Pass NEPA Explicit hierarchy of properties and terms allows for enhanced searching. Interstate 90 Purpose Environmental Assessment Location Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Author Editor Parley Pratt

  25. Super-Duper Enhanced Metadata Keyword Snoqualmie Pass NEPA Interstate 90 Purpose Environmental Assessment Additional relationships of various types between terms allow for super-duper enhanced searching (i.e. similarity search, …) Location Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District Western Hemlock Author Editor Parley Pratt

  26. For More Information • www.cse.ogi.edu/forest • Tim Tolle • Lois Delcambre

  27. Project focuses on the: Adaptive Management Areas USDA Forest Service USDI Bureau of Land Management USDI Fish and Wildlife Service

  28. Adaptive Management Portal:a value-added, Internet-based service • Provide multiple access paths to forest information. • Preserve local autonomy and local focus of each site. • Support diverse users and types of information. • Use proposed, existing, and de facto standards for content, classification, and technology. • Be low-cost, scalable, extensible.

  29. Task 1 – Status • Workshops @ Snoqualmie Pass Adaptive Management Area, Cle Elum, WA (June and July) • Interviews with Forest Service Corvallis Forest Sciences Lab and USGS FRESC, Corvallis (August) • Interviews with Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area, Eugene (August) • Interviews with the Applegate Partnership and its associated agencies (August) • Rainier National Park (planned for October)

  30. Things we’ve learned from Task 1 NSF Digital Government • work is project-based • multiple agencies are involved • each agency serves as information gatherer; information broker; information consumer • primary product is information: assessments, studies, surveys, environmental impact statements • even though information is a primary product, information technology is secondary (stewardship of the land is the primary mission)

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