1. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 1 Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM

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

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

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

6. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 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. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 7 Capabilities of The Forest Portal DocumentUpload File: Author: Title: Type: Contact: Notes:

8. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 8 Capabilities of The Forest Portal MetadataAttachment Metadata PropertyValue

9. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 9 Capabilities of The Forest Portal Search Keyword Search Keyword: Browse Category Location > Region 6 > Wenatchee National Forest BOR Road Issues A 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 Decision Documents my rationale and selection of Alternatives … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Interstate 90 Legislation Conference report on H.R. 438, making Omnibus … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Metadata Search

10. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 10 Capabilities of The Forest Portal SimilaritySearch Find Similar Documents (through associated Metadata) Browse Category Location > Region 6 > Wenatchee National Forest BOR Road Issues A 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 Decision Documents my rationale and selection of Alternatives … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Interstate 90 Legislation Conference report on H.R. 438, making Omnibus … [Metadata] [Similar Documents] Metadata PropertyValueUsing

11. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 11 Steps to an AMA Portal 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 open community

12. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 12 Major Track: Application Needs  Metadata Interviewing Identifying User Needs Articulating functionality Choosing controlled vocabularies Evaluating controlled vocabularies Preparing controlled vocabularies Representing/using metadata Metadata++

13. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 13 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 Toccalino Preparation of Controlled Vocabularies (Computer Science Team) Rupa, Emily, Shawn Metadata++ Primary research activity: Mat Weaver, Lois Delcambre, Dave Maier Application Needs  Metadata

14. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 14 Major Track: How to build a portal? Metadata++ Document identification Portal products Gazetteer Metadata entry Document repository GIS functionality Distribution User Interface

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

16. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 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. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 17 Evaluating Portal Business Models Balbinder Banga, Fred Phillips Analyzing Research Consortia Fred Phillips, Gary Summers, Jordan Wirfs-Brock Inhibiting/Facilitating Information Sharing Niki Steckler, Marianne Koch Case Study of AMA Collaborations Victoria Sturtevant If we build it…will they come?

18. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 18 Other Ideas Access document subparts? Look for snippets of structure? Introduce structure incrementally? Gather bits of information together (in bundles)?

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20. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 20 Building the Sandbox … to support similarity search across multiple domains

21. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 21 Documents “Document” used very loosely – could be just about anything Vary in format (text, map, dataset, …) Vary in purpose (formal assessment, informal letter, …)

22. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 22 Traditional Metadata Author: Parley Pratt Purpose: Environmental Assessment Location: Wenatchee National Forest Keyword: Interstate 90 Keyword: Snoqualmie Pass Fields with values May or may not use “controlled vocabulary” Allows for basic searches

23. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 23 Enhanced Metadata Parley Pratt Author Environmental Assessment Purpose Wenatchee National Forest Location Interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass Keyword Instead of fields and values, we use explicit properties and terms Metadata is represented by connecting a document with a term via a property

24. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 24 Enhanced Metadata Parley Pratt Author Environmental Assessment Purpose Wenatchee National Forest Location Interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass Keyword Editor NEPA Cle Elum Ranger District

25. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 25 Super Enhanced Metadata Parley Pratt Author Environmental Assessment Purpose Wenatchee National Forest Location Interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass Keyword Editor NEPA Cle Elum Ranger District Explicit hierarchy of properties and terms allows for enhanced searching.

26. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 26 Super-Duper Enhanced Metadata Parley Pratt Author Environmental Assessment Purpose Wenatchee National Forest Location Interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass Keyword Editor NEPA Cle Elum Ranger District Western Hemlock Additional relationships of various types between terms allow for super-duper enhanced searching (i.e. similarity search, …)

27. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 27 For More Information www.cse.ogi.edu/forest Tim Tolle Lois Delcambre

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29. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 29 Project focuses on the: Adaptive Management Areas USDA Forest Service USDI Bureau of Land Management USDI Fish and Wildlife Service

30. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 30 Adaptive Management Portal: a value-added, Internet-based service 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.

31. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 31 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)

32. BLM Briefing – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle 32 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)