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Busting The Wild Alaskan Information Silo Scott Miller (ARCN) & Josh Schmidt (CAKN)

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Page 1: Busting The Wild Alaskan  Information Silo

Busting TheWild Alaskan Information Silo

Scott Miller (ARCN) & Josh Schmidt (CAKN)

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What’s an information silo?

An information silo is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems.

Information silo. In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo

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Alaska: 4 Networks, 4 Organizational Structures, 4 Silos •Same I&M program

•Same Vital Sign•Presented different ways•Confusing to public•Duplication of effort

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How silos affect people: An example

Hmmm, what’s a network?!?! Well,

I’ll click and see what I get.

I’d like I&M information on brown bears in Alaska

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This looks pretty good. What’s this Southwest thing? I want to know about bears all over Alaska

I’ll click this ‘Networks’ link. Maybe there are more networks

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Dang. No catalog.

Can I search all the networks? Double dang.

Well I’ll try this Southeast network thing.

What the heck is this? Looks like there are many of these network things.

Maybe there’s a national catalog?

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Dang, no bears here. What the heck is a ‘Vital Sign?’ Is this a medical site?(Back up)

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There was nothing on that Southeast thing. I’ll try Central. (Click)

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But why does it look different than that other bear site?

Aren’t these all Park Service sites?

Am I lost?

(Why are they taking vital signs of moose?)

Well, there seems to be something about bears here.

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Well, here’s an Arctic Network site that has info on brown bears

This one looks different, too. I don’t get it.

Aren’t these all the same program?

What’s going on?!?!

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I could waste all day searching all these network things.

It’s all one program! Why isn’t there a catalog of these Vital Sign things?

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Why do we inflict this torture? We have a silo-oriented architecture

• Silo #1: I&M Program Silo: Non-I&M People don’t think about I&M information the same way I&M people think about I&M information

• Silo #2: Network Silos: Our solutions make sense to people inside a network silo, but not to anyone outside a network silo.

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The Solution• We have a good start with Service Oriented

Architecture and Web Services • Centralize what we can at national level– Vital Sign Profiles – Resource Briefs– Reports– Datasets (already doing this NPS Data Store)

• Focus talents more at national program applications, less at network-level apps

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Alaska Region Current Model (Silos)

Arctic Network Website• Boilerplate I&M Program Info• Network info• Personnel info• Vital Signs• Reports• Projects• Datasets

Southeast Alaska Network Website

• Boilerplate I&M Program Info• Network info• Personnel info• Vital Signs• Reports• Projects• Datasets

Southwest Network Website

• Boilerplate I&M Program Info• Network info• Personnel info• Vital Signs• Reports• Projects• Datasets

Central Alaska Network Website• Boilerplate I&M Program Info• Network info• Personnel info• Vital Signs• Reports• Projects• Datasets

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Alaska Region Proposed Integrated Model (Sans silos)

National I&M Website• Boilerplate I&M Program Info• Reports (NR Publications website)• *Datasets (NPS Data Store) Alaska Region I&M Website

• Regional Personnel info• Regional Vital Signs Catalog• Regional Projects Catalog & Tracking•*Dataset Catalog (from NPS Data Store web service)

Alaska SQL Server Arctic Network Website

• Network specific info• Network Personnel info• Network Vital Signs Catalog• Network Projects Catalog & Tracking•*Dataset Catalog (from NPS Data Store web service)

Central Alaska Network Website• Network specific info• Network Personnel info• Network Vital Signs Catalog• Network Projects Catalog & Tracking•*Dataset Catalog (from NPS Data Store web service)

Southeast Alaska Network Website

• Network specific info• Network Personnel info• Network Vital Signs Catalog• Network Projects Catalog & Tracking•*Dataset Catalog (from NPS Data Store web service)

Southwest Alaska Network Website• Network specific info• Network Personnel info• Network Vital Signs Catalog• Network Projects Catalog & Tracking•*Dataset Catalog (from NPS Data Store web service)

NPS OracleDatabase

Shared Catalogs

Web Services (Systems Oriented Architecture)NPS Data Store is great silo-busting example

Point # 1: If it can be cataloged and shared it goes up here

Point # 2: If it’s network specific it goes down here

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Our Plan• Form regional website committee• Determine ‘one-size-more-or-less-fits-all’

website outline• Develop unified website template ‘look\feel’• Build back-end database & web catalogs• Populate database• Review info• Launch

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Benefits• Silos minimized, info centralized & shared• Shared investment of effort• Minimal upkeep• Specialized talent is focused where needed

– Graphic design by graphic designer– Database design by data manager– Content written by coordinators and scientists

• Ready bake tools– Automatic accommodation of staff turnover– More use and buy-in minimizes loss of institutional knowledge