1. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM Tim Tolle & Lois Delcambre ttolle@fs.fed.us lmd@cse.ogi.edu Co-Project Directors

2. Adaptive Management Areas

3. Figure 1: Adaptive Management of Forest Lands Monitor: Gather Information Continuous Management Evaluate (Lessons Learned) Act Plan & Set Directions

4. The ability for the user to search multiple, diverse and reliable sources (individual Adaptive Management Area sites) in an easy, inexpensive manner. What do we need?

5. ISSUES: The Internet Used at present Potentially useful But not necessarily reliable –Searches –Information

6. Duration: 3 years Budget: $1.5 million Participants: –Adaptive Management Areas (Tim Tolle) –Oregon Graduate Institute (Lois Delcambre, David Maier, Patty Toccalino, Fred Phillips) –Natural Resource Information Specialist (Eric Landis) –Federal Agencies: Forest Service (Northwest Region), PNW Research Station, Bureau of Land Management, National Science Foundation, Fish and Wildlife Service Location: Western Washington, Oregon and California PROJECT FACTOIDS

7. 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 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 Assistant Director, Ecosystem Mgt., USDA, Forest Service Steve Solem

9. Principal 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 and 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 Forest/env. expertise Computer science expertise

10. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests NSF Digital Government Program federal and local agencies university researchers a partnership

11. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests NSF Digital Government Program federal and local agencies: USDA Forest Service USDI Bureau of Land Management USDI Fish & Wildlife Service National Park Service Three AMA sites university researchers: computer science environmental science business/management

12. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests NSF Digital Government Program Research Development Application Deployment

13. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests NSF Digital Government Program researchdevelopmentdeployment Application context: Web-based AMA portal

14. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests NSF Digital Government Program federal and local agencies: USDA Forest Service USDI Bureau of Land Management USDI Fish & Wildlife Service National Park Service Three AMA sites researchdevelopmentdeployment

15. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests NSF Digital Government Program researchdevelopmentdeployment university researchers: computer science environmental science business/management

16. Goals for Today Have fun … (we love to talk about our work) Have good discussions Have a working meeting

17. Agenda 9breakfast/introductions 9:30Larry Brandt 10:00Opening RemarksTim Tolle & Lois Delcambre 10:15Engaging the stakeholdersTim Tolle Eric Landis Patty Toccalino Niki Steckler (Fred Phillips) 11:45lunch(catered - same room)quick demo: Rupa Tummala 12:45Developing the technologyLois Delcambre Mat Weaver Dave Maier Shawn Bowers 4:00Presentation @ Forest Service Building downtown 7:00Dinner downtown

18. What will we address this morning? What we are doing to learn about the client needs and wants What we plan to do next What we have learned so far What is out there to help Comparisons of controlled vocabularies Demonstration

19. Understand the client requirements and opportunities

20. Test Areas

21. Cle Elum and Wenatchee Eugene and Corvallis Star RS and Applegate Watershed Center Roseburg Rainier NP

22. Challenges Easy Access for All Levels of Expertise Turning Data into Knowledge - Usable Making Contributions Simple Low Cost Interoperable Searching Persistent Information Provide Quality Assurance Encourage the Use of Standards

23. Worldwide Web You Say? Look Again 550 Billion Documents Available - 1 billion indexed through conventional search engines Quality Assurance? – anyone can contribute and “recontribute” No Standards for Vocabularies – a “tree” is not always a tree Is the Information Sustainable? When was it produced, has it been updated?

24. BUSINESS NEEDS Looking at business models for portal (Fred) Identifying inhibitors and facilitators of information sharing (Niki) Evaluating Adaptive Management Areas as a research consortia (Fred)

25. Contributions of MST Researchers to the Forest Project Portals: Business Models & Critical Success/Failure Factors –Masters’ student Natasha Farvann, supervised by Prof. Fred Phillips –Paper due March 15, 2001 –Will guide implementation of AMA portal Inhibitors/Facilitators of Information Sharing in Organizations –Prof. Nicole Steckler –Identify critical factors that have a practical impact on willingness to share information –Will help position AMA portal for maximum use by agencies Relative Variety Analysis –Profs. Fred Phillips and Gary Summers –Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis (a public program evaluation tool); may be applied to measuring efficiency & flexibility of participating agencies –Simulations and paper to be completed by April 15, 2001 R&D Consortia: Formation Process & Critical Success Factors –Profs. Fred Phillips (OGI), Boaz Golany (Technion), David Gibson (UT-Austin) –Co-funded by Neaman Foundation (Israel); progress report to Neaman 3/5/01 –Future work will evaluate AMAs as cooperative research mechanism

26. Clients answered technical questions

27. SCENARIOS FOIA (Freedom of Information Act – request for information) Silvicultural prescription Watershed assessment

28. WHAT FORMS OF RECORDS? Maps Reports and study results Decisions Data summaries

29. SHOW VIDEO

30. What do we know about this place? SEARCH FOR: PLACES Maps and gazetteers

31. WATERSHEDS Use USGS naming convention Agencies have agreed to boundaries, province by province

32. PROVINCES

33. Similar Places: as templates Similar … terrain or hydrology or climate or forest types or wildlife or towns or ??? SEARCH FOR:

34. Forest types Species, especially listed species

35. SEARCH FOR: ACTIVITIES Tree planting Research Thinning Burning invasive species Stream restoration

36. SEARCH BY: DOCUMENT TYPE Assessments Decisions Research and administrative studies Monitoring Surveys

37. SEARCH BY: PEOPLE Who is working on this and how do I contact him? What is Lynn working on these days? What are the hypotheses she’s studying?

38. SEARCH BY: OTHER TOPICS CLIMATE HABITAT TRAILS ARCHEOLOGY COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FACILITIES RECREATION ROADS SOILS HISTORY WILDERNESS

39. Answer policy questions

40. Provides guidance on the type of information which should be included as a part of the system. Typically includes:  Types of eligible information resources  Format for meta-information (catalogue)  Quality of eligible information resources  Conditions for entering meta-information Develop Policies

41. Policy findings Access issue: who can view the records?

42. Policy findings? Make data available?

43. Policy findings Use common key words How can we find the information we want?

44. Policy findings Need to have a policy about who puts records “in”

45. Concerns: “I just want to point and click to get what I want.”

46. Concerns: Maintain links to other sites

47. SELECTING THE “RIGHT” CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES Looking at International, National, regional CVs and key word lists (in that priority) Need definitions Want to know relationships among terms Too broad = not useful Too many words = too much time to look up search = Lack of use Many terms used are regional

48. Title Author or Creator Subject & Key Words Abstract or Other Text Description Publisher (or AMA) Date Made Available Type (e.g. Paper, WWW Page, Dictionary) Format (e.g. Map, Text) Resource Identifier (E.G. ISBN, URL) Source (If Not Original) Language Relation (Conference, Compendium) Coverage (Spatial and Temporal) Rights (Copyright Notice) Standard Metadata Dublin Core