National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer NPS Focus Christie McDonald Digital Data Manager/Developer Resource Information Services Division Resource Information Management Division National Information Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer NPS Focus Background Images, documents, metadata Public and Internal sites Service-wide scope Launched in 2000 Library catalog records –Federated searching Web service Wonder Lake, Denali National Park and Preserve

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer NPS Focus Records Digital Documents –Photos – Letters –Articles– Scanned text –Drawings –Historical Documents –Annual Reports –Technical Reports PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT DjVu encoding Cape Hatteras National Seashore

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer PMIS Records in Focus NPS Budget Office (PMIS) –Image service with NPS Focus –Link PMIS records to images in NPS Focus Olympic National Park

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer NPS Focus Workflow ARRA Workflow: Image(s) Create record and upload images to NPS Focus Create PMIS record More Images? Repeat as needed Link PMIS record to Focus images Stones River National Battlefield

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer Facilities Management in Focus Facilities Management Division –Images of assets –Condition assessment –Buildings, trails, equipment, etc. –Integration with NPMap Happy Isles, Yosemite National Park

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer NPS Focus Web Stats Web Statistics –3/12/2010 through 3/18/2010 –Total traffic through Denver DMZ by hits – 5.9 million hits –2 nd most accessed site – NPS Focus system sites with 5.7% of all traffic Bighorn Sheep, Arches National Park

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer Future Integration NPMap IRMA Technical Information Center (TIC) InsideNPS Other repositories Contact us to partner! Fountain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer 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

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Resource Information Management Division National Information Systems Center Office of the Chief Information Officer Thank You! Questions?Questions? Contact the NPS Focus Team Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve