1. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 1 Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM

2. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 2 Partnership USDA Forest Service Tim Tolle Oregon Graduate Institute Lois Delcambre Co-Project Directors

3. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 3 Details… USDA Forest Service Tim Tolle Oregon Graduate Institute * Lois Delcambre * On July 1, 2001 Oregon Graduate Institute  School of Science & Engineering of the Oregon Health Sciences University  Oregon Health & Science University

4. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 4 Presentation Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre Application Context; Progress to Date Tim Tolle Metadata ++ to Exploit Rich Structure Mat Weaver

5. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 5 Project Funding Duration: 3 years Budget: $1.5 million Principal financial sponsors –National Science Foundation –Bureau of Land Management (Oregon State Office) –Forest Service (R-6 and PNW Station) –National Park Service (Western Region)

6. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 6 Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute Computer Science Lois Delcambre Dave Maier Mat Weaver Shawn Bowers Environmental Science & Engineering Patty Toccalino Management in Science & Tech. Fred Phillips

7. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 7 Additional Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute 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 Two grad. students

8. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 8 Other Additional Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute 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 Two grad. students Dave Hansen Undergraduate students Kinley Campbell Emily Langston Jordan Wirfs-Brock High school apprentice On-site High school apprentice

9. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 9 Team Members Tim Tolle Regional Coordinator for AMA, US Forest Service Eric Landis Forest Information System Specialist, Consultant Craig Palmer Natural Resources Monitoring Expert, UNLV Fred Phillips Professor, Head, Mgt. of Science and Tech., OGI Patty Toccalino Asst. Prof., Environmental Science and Eng., OGI Lois Delcambre Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI David Maier Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI Shawn Bowers PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI Mat Weaver PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI

10. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 10 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, Pacific NW Region Robert Devlin 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

11. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 11 A Predisposition for Collaboration USDA Forest Service Oregon Graduate Institute science culture holds a PhD application-motivated research interest in seeing results applied

12. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 12 Predisposition: Safeguards USDA Forest Service Oregon Graduate Institute “why 3 years?” “..trouble with my C: drive” “…programmers!” “simplifying assumptions…” “narrow focus…” “deployment?!”

13. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 13 Tactics Academics “tag along” with Tim…. Field trips…to Rainier National Park, OSU, … Monthly, all-hands team lunches Guest spots…at research meetings The coffee shop around the corner

14. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 14 About Choosing Partners It’s a miracle

15. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 15 Presentation Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre Application Context; Progress to Date Tim Tolle Metadata ++ to Exploit Rich Structure Mat Weaver

16. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 16 Presentation Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre Application Context; Progress to Date Tim Tolle Metadata ++ to Exploit Rich Structure Mat Weaver

17. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 17 What is Superimposed Information? data “placed over” existing information sources to:  highlight  annotate  elaborate  select  collect  organize  connect  reuse information elements often to support new applications, beyond the original

18. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 18 Examples of Superimposed Information  Non-electronic examples:  Commentaries on religious texts, law, literature  Concordances, citation indexes  Electronic examples:  Your bookmark file in your web browser  RDF metadata

19. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 19 Why work on it now? Broadening range of digital information Accessibility/addressability to base information –Reference (e.g., URL) can be resolved quickly –Addressing at various levels of granularity Emerging Standards: RDF, Topic Maps, Xlink Emerging Applications: –Third Voice, Multi-Valent Documents,...

20. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 20 The superimposed and base layers with marks Superimposed Layer Base Layer Information Source 1 Information Source 2 Information Source n … marks Focus: building generic technology

21. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 21 Superimposed Applications enhanced base layer application simultaneous use of base and superimposed applications web browser (with extra functions such as annotation) superimposed application base application 1 base application 2...

22. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 22 Building the Sandbox … to support similarity search across multiple domains

23. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 23 Documents “Document” used very loosely – could be just about anything Vary in format (text, map, dataset, …) Vary in purpose (formal assessment, informal letter, …)

24. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 24 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

25. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 25 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

26. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 26 Enhanced Metadata Parley Pratt Author Environmental Assessment Purpose Wenatchee National Forest Location Interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass Keyword Editor NEPA Cle Elum Ranger District

27. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 27 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.

28. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 28 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, …)

29. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 29 For More Information www.cse.ogi.edu/footprints www.cse.ogi.edu/forest lmd@cse.ogi.edu Lois Delcambre maier@cse.ogi.eduDave Maier shawn@cse.ogi.eduShawn Bowers mweaver@cse.ogi.eduMat Weaver

30. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 30 Project focuses on the: Adaptive Management Areas USDA Forest Service USDI Bureau of Land Management USDI Fish and Wildlife Service

31. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 31 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.

32. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 32 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)

33. dg.o May 2001 – Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Mat Weaver 33 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)