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Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory & Monitoring Program March 16, 2011Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory & Monitoring Program March 16, 2011

Bill Johnson

Leveraging the power of NPS’s Natural Resource Program

Center information platform to benefit an individual I&M

network

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Our Design Considerations

Accessibility required for cooperators, partners, and NPS staff

Limited staff resources

Restricted IT capabilities

Staff turns over

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NRPC’s Offering

MS SQL Server database platform

Web server

Business continuity components

External Internet web presence

Responsive technical support staff

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Infrastructure Schematic

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External / Internal Web Presence

PROTOCOL RETRIEVAL

CONTACTS

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Example: Online Reporting

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Example: Data Retrieval Query

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Example: Query Results

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Worldwide Discoverability

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Drawbacks

Requires technical expertise in building web sites and SQL databases

Trades off flexibility for integrity and functionality

Relies on outside provider’s performance for success

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Advantages System reliability and responsiveness

World wide availability

Data security

High capacity at low cost

Once established, provides data to customers without staff involvement

One platform to maintain

Web services / Web 2.0 hooks

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Contacts

The web-connected database: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sean

The web-connected data manager: Bill_Johnson@NPS.GOV

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