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Enhancing Natural Resource Information Management: Challenges and Strategies

This document delves into the complexities of Natural Resource Information Management in a diverse landscape of data formats and stakeholder needs. It explores the spatial and temporal scales of biological science and highlights the challenges of accessing, managing, and disseminating information from various sources. Emphasizing the growing need for standardized documentation per EO 12906 and compliance with NEPA and FOIA, the piece discusses the role of controlled vocabularies, mandates for data collection, and the integration of multiple data providers. It also addresses the necessity of quality assurance and making information accessible to users across various expertise levels.

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Enhancing Natural Resource Information Management: Challenges and Strategies

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  1. Motivation Eric Landis elandis@ix.netcom.com

  2. Current Natural Resource Information Management Conditions • Diversity of Information Content • Spatial Scale - from genes to ecosystems • Temporal Scale – that’s biological science • Both biological and non-biological information • Numerous Formats • Napkins to GIS including tabular, graphic, text, video, audio, physical specimens • Providers provide data – Users seek knowledge

  3. Current Conditions (cont.) • Numerous Independent Locations of Holdings • Desktop corners, old floppies, hard drives, libraries, websites, home offices, back rooms • More Mandates Regarding Collection, Management and Dissemination • EO 12906 – “standardized documentation” • NEPA – provide environmental effects of management actions to decision makers & public • FOIA – access to federal documents • Unit and Project “Mandates”

  4. Current Conditions (cont.) • Multiple Stakeholders • Providers - data “owners”, support staff, archivists, budget personnel, webmasters • Users – resource managers, K-PhD, business, policymakers, researchers, public interests • Numerous Controlled Vocabularies & Thesauri • Integrated Taxonomic Information Service Database • Global Change Master Directory Keyword List • NBII Thesaurus (early 2001) • WMC’s Recommended Watershed Terminology • NRCS Climate Glossary • “Local” and Individual Keyword Lists

  5. What the Information User Sees What do I need? Where can I find it? How do I get it? How do I get it? Clara Weaver

  6. What the Information Provider Perceives I’ I really want to make my information available, but at what price? Metadata? Fred the Fish Biologist Controlled Vocabularies? Mandate Citation

  7. 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?

  8. 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

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