1. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Integrated Data Management Network for LCCs and Partners: A Framework for Coordinated Data Discovery, Access, Analysis, Visualization, Project Tracking and Coordination Webinar Series Summer 2014

2. Statement of Need  LCCs have a critical need for information management processes that facilitate:  science product (i.e., data, analysis and decision tools, documents) sharing;  data storage, security, and dissemination; and  project tracking, communication and collaboration tools  Effort must be interoperable with the USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC) and other landscape ‐ level project management systems

3. Goals  assemble a team that will develop conceptual approaches and practical to data management and analysis integration  define a core architecture as a default information management resource, while building specific interoperability among a select number of repository, visualization, and analysis portals as a practical application

4. Eventually…  The team will evolve into topic ‐ specific Communities of Practice that will jointly guide future integration pathways for LCCs and their partners

5. Planning and Doing The IDMN will:  facilitate efficient data sharing and technical communication among the broadest possible partnerships  provide specific coordinated interoperability solutions requested by multiple federal and state guidance documents  create the guidance that defines multiple information transfer situations  foster LCC and CSC partnerships by federating their locally developed hardware and software solutions

6. Deliverables 1. Data, application, and documentation standards that align with national ‐ level LCC partner programs and underlie all deliverables of the IDMN and subsequent outcomes of the Communities of Practice. 2. Roadmap to Interoperability:  Comprehensive strategic framework that guides the future network.  Planning and doing will be paired with shared, creative problem solving and lessons learned documentation to generate the roadmap  Describe the present and future integrated network supporting LCC data management, analysis and delivery needs.

7. Integrated Data Management Network A Framework for Data Discovery, Access, Analysis, Visualization, Project Tracking and Coordination June 12Dell Long, Lei Ann Wilson, & Don Brown, USGS ScienceBase: ScienceBase provides a collaborative data management platform (metadata catalog, data repository, product and project metadata editing and creation tools and web services) for LCCs. Register at: https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=tc1bc98c6c6dc4eefe01536c77c835972 https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=tc1bc98c6c6dc4eefe01536c77c835972 June 26Tosha Comendant & Brendan Ward, CBI Data Basin: Data Basin is science-based mapping and analysis platform currently in use by a number of LCCs, agencies, and organizations. Register at: https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t89599685d5398903490be887f55ce8db https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t89599685d5398903490be887f55ce8db July 10Brendan Ward, CBI Tom Miewald & BJ Richardson, USFWS Integration in Action: For landscape-level analyses to succeed, researchers need data portals and catalogs to interact at many levels. This way users can discover and use distributed science products. Register at: https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t66e38f96ec5ac42428b5af27e1d98bd2 https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t66e38f96ec5ac42428b5af27e1d98bd2 July 24Brendan Ward, CBI Dell Long, USGS IDMN Toolshed: The IDMN project developed several integration points between ScienceBase and Data Basin, a catalog and framework for evaluating tools available for the LCC Network, and best practices for developing tools to support integration. Register at: https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=te42e92852be420c19d86fc4847f4c2af https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=te42e92852be420c19d86fc4847f4c2af Aug 14Deanne DiPietro, CA LCCProject Tracking: Successful project tracking requires agreements on data standards and integration points. This allows LCCs to identify and assess funded research projects at regional and national scales. Register at: https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t8309b79b01cac9662d056116789843bb https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t8309b79b01cac9662d056116789843bb Aug 28Tim Kern, USGS Sean Finn, GNLCC Jim Strittholt, CBI Next Generation Data Integration Challenges: Future landscape-scale analyses will rely on more and larger datasets, more computationally intense models, and an ever increasing rate of data inputs and outputs. Integration activities must keep pace with these needs. Register at: https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t88b0980aaced0f57bee1ec512231bff6 https://doilearn.webex.com/doilearn/k2/j.php?MTID=t88b0980aaced0f57bee1ec512231bff6 IDMN Webinar Series At 2 pm EDT/1 pm CDT/12 pm MDT/11:00 am PDT

8. U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase/LC MAP LCC Integrated Data Management Network Dell Long, Don Brown, and Lei Ann Wilson USGS Fort Collins Science Center

9. Agenda  ScienceBase/LC MAP Overview (Dell)  Adding/Managing Items (Lei Ann)  Catalog Search (Lei Ann)  GIS capabilities & Partner Portals (Don)  Wrap-up (Dell)  Questions

10. Overview  Researchers found few existing capabilities focused on the needs of science projects  Many data stores were domain-specific, hard to do interdisciplinary discovery  Existing repositories were not data-friendly  Project Managers needed a way to track and report on the products, data, and references scientists were generating

11. https://www.sciencebase.gov Sponsored by Core Science Systems, with support from NCCWSC and the LCC Network Repository as a Service Consistent with the Digital Government Strategy Open source software What is ScienceBase? Presentation Layer Mission Specific Portal Platform Layer Systems, Processes, Management & Web APIs Information Layer Open Data and Content

12. ScienceBase Components  Catalog: Metadata storage and search  Can harvest metadata held by other portals  Repository  Each community has unique space  Discover items collected by other projects  Geospatial Integration: ArcGIS and OGC services  Web services to feed custom applications

13. Security  Each Community/Project controls its own space  Who can work with data  Who can access data  Each item or set of items can be restricted to a person, group of people, related projects, or open to the public

14. Repository as a Service  ScienceBase asks users to change their expectation of the repository  Not an “end-to-end” solution, with tools for every science challenge, as no software can support all needs  User interface can be outsourced to projects  Focus is on supporting integration with other sites, repositories, and tools  Allows users to build or use tools that can interact with the repository

15. Adding/Managing Items Create new record: Select Create New Record to add a metadata record, which may include a project description, citation with a URL to publication file, or a web link to a data service. (Used to reference data elsewhere) Import file: Select Import File to create a new item that will include a file from a local system. Users must be logged in and have write privileges.

16. Create New Item: Metadata  Only required fields are Title and Destination  Richer metadata highly recommended  Provides better ways to discover record  More information to the user  Think about FGDC, ISO 19115 and EML

17. Managing Permissions

18. WAF Harvesting  ScienceBase items can be created from several standard metadata formats including FGDC, ISO-19115, and EML  An item with a reference to a web accessible folder (WAF) can be harvested, creating child items for each file  Original metadata is retained on the new items for future reference

19. Search the Catalog  Search by keywords  Browse by category/tag  Browse by location  Advanced search

20. Advanced Search

21. GIS Capabilities & Partner Portals  Uploading shapefiles, geotiffs, and Service Definitions (ArcGIS and OGC Mapping Services).  ScienceBase as a repository and service provider.  Can be used to store end-user controlled website content (data files interactive maps).

22. GIS Capabilities (shapefiles & geotiffs)

23. GIS Capabilities (GIS Services)  Open source GIS Services on GeoServer  WMS, WFS, and WCS

24. GIS Capabilities (GIS Services)  ArcGIS Services in ScienceBase

25. Partner Portals  Consume ScienceBase data and GIS Services in external websites.

26. Catalog Services  ScienceBase provides basic support for several standard harvesting methods  Each data collection has its own “end point”  Catalog Services for the Web (CSW)  Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

27. What’s Next for ScienceBase?  Better handling of native metadata formats  Improved support for uploading and downloading large data sets  Continued support for the storage of project data and metadata from USGS projects and its partners

28. Wrap Up  ScienceBase Documentation  https://www.sciencebase.gov/about https://www.sciencebase.gov/about  Email  sciencebase@usgs.gov sciencebase@usgs.gov  Give Feedback  http://feedback.sciencebase.gov/forums/73465- sciencebase http://feedback.sciencebase.gov/forums/73465- sciencebase

29. Questions