1. Tools for tomorrow’s floodplain manager: Data management and tools ASFPM annual conference 2008 David Ford David Ford Consulting Engineers, Inc. Sacramento, CA

2. from CP on flickr.com

3. 1. Gather 2. Organize 3. Refine 4. Distribute

4. 1. Gather

7. from net_efekt on flickr.com

12. Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo

13. Sacramento Bee

14. 2. Organize

15. Duncan Davidson, flickr.com

16. Ernest To Center for Research in Water Resources University of Texas at Austin 20061011 Data Source and Network SitesVariablesValuesMetadata Controlled Vocabulary Tables A data source operates an observation network A network is a set of observation sites Depth of snow pack Streamflow Landuse, Vegetation Windspeed, Precipitation Data Delivery e.g. mg/kg, cfs e.g. depth e.g. Non-detect,Estimated, A site is a point location where one or more variables are measured Metadata provide information about the context of the observation. A variable is a property describing the flow or quality of water A value is an observation of a variable at a particular time Data Discovery http://www.cuahsi.org/his/documentation.html

17. Open Interoperable

18. Information Knowledge Data 3. Refine

19. Not me. I swear

20. from IBM’s Website (of course)

21. from Northwest Hydraulic Consultants

23. 1968: No network at all 1969: 4 sites 1971: Developers predicted 2000 users @ 14 sites Today: 2,000,000,000 users @ 100,000,000+ sites Peter Salus (2008). The ARPANET Sourcebook: The Unpublished Foundations of the Internet

26. HEC-ResSim Corps' database NWSRFS HEC-ResSim CDEC database 2 1 56 3 HEC-ResSim 10 9 8 7 11 4 Reservoir operators CDEC Web server Corps' Web server Corps' firewall Synchronized configuration database

27. User interaction interface Systems management Provisioning tool Monitoring and metering Services catalog Servers (remote connection via Internet)

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32. N=1 +R=G +co-create Prahalad & Krishnan, The new age of innovation, 2008

38. 1. Gather 2. Organize 3. Refine 4. Distribute

39. … the shelf life of biscuits and technology is about the same. Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems, quoted in New York Times, March 27, 1993