harvesting information to sustain our forests: creating an adaptive management portal

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Harvesting Information to Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests:Sustain our Forests:

Creating anCreating anAdaptive Management PortalAdaptive Management Portal

NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMNSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM

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PartnershipPartnership

USDA Forest ServiceTim Tolle

Oregon Graduate InstituteLois Delcambre

Co-Project Directors

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Details… Details…

USDA Forest ServiceTim Tolle

Oregon Graduate Institute*

Lois Delcambre

*On July 1, 2001 •Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science & Engineering

of theOregon Health Sciences University Oregon Health & Science University

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PresentationPresentation

• Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre

• Application Context; Progress to DateTim Tolle

• Metadata++ to Exploit Rich StructureMat Weaver

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Project FundingProject 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)

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Team Members Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute@ Oregon Graduate Institute

Computer ScienceLois Delcambre

Dave MaierMat Weaver

Shawn Bowers

Environmental Science& Engineering

Patty Toccalino

Management inScience & Tech.

Fred Phillips

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Additional Team Members Additional Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute@ Oregon Graduate Institute

Computer ScienceLois Delcambre

Dave MaierMat Weaver

Shawn BowersRupa Tummala

Sun Murthy

Environmental Science& EngineeringPatty ToccalinoJulia Norman

Management inScience & Tech.

Fred PhillipsNicole Steckler

Two grad. students

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Other Additional Team Members Other Additional Team Members @ Oregon Graduate Institute@ Oregon Graduate Institute

Computer ScienceLois Delcambre

Dave MaierMat Weaver

Shawn BowersRupa Tummala

Sun Murthy

Environmental Science& EngineeringPatty ToccalinoJulia Norman

Management inScience & Tech.

Fred PhillipsNicole Steckler

Two grad. students

Dave HansenUndergraduate students

Kinley CampbellEmily Langston

JordanWirfs-Brock

High school apprentice

On-site High school apprentice

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Team MembersTeam Members

Tim Tolle Tim Tolle Regional Coordinator for AMA, US Forest ServiceRegional Coordinator for AMA, US Forest Service

Eric LandisEric Landis Forest Information System Specialist, ConsultantForest Information System Specialist, Consultant

Craig PalmerCraig Palmer Natural Resources Monitoring Expert, UNLVNatural Resources Monitoring Expert, UNLV

Fred PhillipsFred Phillips Professor, Head, Mgt. of Science and Tech., OGIProfessor, Head, Mgt. of Science and Tech., OGI

Patty ToccalinoPatty Toccalino Asst. Prof., Environmental Science and Eng., OGIAsst. Prof., Environmental Science and Eng., OGI

Lois DelcambreLois Delcambre Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGIProfessor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI

David MaierDavid Maier Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGIProfessor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI

Shawn BowersShawn Bowers PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGIPhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI

Mat WeaverMat Weaver PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGIPhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI

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Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryMark Whiting

Science Advisor, USDI, National Park ServiceRegina Rochefort

Communications Director, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research StationCynthia L. Miner

Chief, Office of Technical Support, Forest Resources, USDI Fish and Wildlife ServiceMonty Knudsen

Executive Director, IMFN SecretariatFred Johnson

MD, Asst. Professor, Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, OHSU Paul Gorman

Sustainable NorthwestMartin Goebel

USDA Forest Service, Pacific NW RegionRobert Devlin

President, IUFRO, Oxford Forestry Institute, Dept of Plant SciencesJeff Burley

Co-Inventor of the Topic Map ModelMichel BiezunskiAdvisory Board

Forest/environmental expertiseForest/environmental expertise Computer science expertiseComputer science expertise

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A Predisposition for CollaborationA Predisposition for Collaboration

USDA Forest Service Oregon Graduate Institute

science cultureholds a PhD

application-motivated researchinterest in seeing results applied

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Predisposition: SafeguardsPredisposition: Safeguards

USDA Forest Service Oregon Graduate Institute

“why 3 years?”“..trouble with my C: drive”“…programmers!”

“simplifying assumptions…”“narrow focus…”“deployment?!”

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TacticsTactics

• 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

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About Choosing PartnersAbout Choosing Partners

It’s a miracle

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PresentationPresentation

• Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre

• Application Context; Progress to DateTim Tolle

• Metadata++ to Exploit Rich StructureMat Weaver

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PresentationPresentation

• Project/Partnership Structure and Experience Lois Delcambre

• Application Context; Progress to DateTim Tolle

• Metadata++ to Exploit Rich StructureMat Weaver

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What is Superimposed What is Superimposed Information?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

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Examples of Superimposed Examples of Superimposed InformationInformation

Non-electronic examples:

Commentaries on religious texts, law, literature

Concordances, citation indexes

Electronic examples:

Your bookmark file in your web browser RDF metadata

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Why work on it Why work on it now?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, ...

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The superimposed and The superimposed and base layers with marksbase layers with marks

Superimposed Layer

BaseLayer

Information Source1

Information Source2

Information Sourcen

…

marks

Focus: building generic technology

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Superimposed ApplicationsSuperimposed Applications

enhanced base layerapplication

simultaneous use of base and

superimposedapplications

web browser(with extra functions such as annotation)

superimposedapplication

baseapplication1

baseapplication2

...

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Building the Sandbox …Building the Sandbox …to support similarity searchto support similarity search

across multiple domainsacross multiple domains

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DocumentsDocuments

•“Document” used very loosely – could be just about anything

•Vary in format (text, map, dataset, …)

•Vary in purpose (formal assessment, informal letter, …)

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Traditional MetadataTraditional 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

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Enhanced MetadataEnhanced Metadata

Parley Pratt

Author

Environmental Assessment

PurposeWenatchee

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

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Enhanced MetadataEnhanced Metadata

Parley PrattAuthor

Environmental Assessment

Purpose

WenatcheeNational Forest

Location

Interstate 90

Snoqualmie Pass Keyword

Editor

NEPA

Cle ElumRanger District

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Super Enhanced MetadataSuper Enhanced Metadata

Parley PrattAuthor

Environmental Assessment

Purpose

WenatcheeNational Forest

Location

Interstate 90

Snoqualmie Pass Keyword

Editor

NEPA

Cle ElumRanger District

Explicit hierarchy of properties and terms allows for enhanced

searching.

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Super-Duper Enhanced MetadataSuper-Duper Enhanced Metadata

Parley PrattAuthor

Environmental Assessment

Purpose

WenatcheeNational Forest

Location

Interstate 90

Snoqualmie Pass Keyword

Editor

NEPA

Cle ElumRanger District

WesternHemlock

Additional relationships of various types between terms allow for super-

duper enhanced searching (i.e. similarity

search, …)

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For More InformationFor More Information

• www.cse.ogi.edu/footprints

• www.cse.ogi.edu/forest

• lmd@cse.ogi.edu Lois Delcambre• maier@cse.ogi.edu Dave Maier• shawn@cse.ogi.edu Shawn Bowers• mweaver@cse.ogi.eduMat Weaver

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Project focuses on the:

Adaptive Management

Areas

USDA Forest ServiceUSDI Bureau of Land

ManagementUSDI Fish and Wildlife Service

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Adaptive Management Portal:Adaptive Management Portal: a value-added, Internet-based a value-added, Internet-based

serviceservice

• 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.

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Task 1 – StatusTask 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)

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Things we’ve learned from Task 1 Things we’ve learned from Task 1 NSF Digital GovernmentNSF 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)