Recovery.gov and Data.govUpdates

Ken ShafferNGAC MeetingAugust 25, 2009

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TopicsRecovery.govData.gov

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GeoRecovery.govSupporting the development of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) website – www.recovery.govEnsuring transparency and accountabilityGeoRecovery.gov Team Initially organized to support OMB/GSA Transitioned to support the Recovery Act

Transparency Board (RATB) that now leads this effort

Team members from FGDC member agencies and contractor support

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GeoRecovery.gov TeamFGDC member agencies

DOI, EPA, DHS, GSA, DOE, USDA, USDA/FS, NPS, NGA, HUD

Providing geo-enabling guidance to Recovery.gov developers (use cases)Provide support through the FGDC representative on the development teamRespond to requests for subject matter expertise in use-case development, application testing, services identificationAugust 20th meeting with the new recovery.gov geospatial contractor

Smartronix

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GeoRecovery.gov TeamGeoRecovery Team provided history of efforts to dateSmartronix reviewed and demoed v2 capabilitiesCommitted to reaching out to the federal community to leverage expertise and identify requirements through the TeamHolding joint monthly meetingsInterim meetings on specific actions called on an as needed basisCurrently, inbound data is coming from federal systems, not recipients (USASpending.gov for example)August 27th “sprint” deadline to have recovery.gov v1 capabilities migrated into v2 platformOctober deadline to have new site infrastructure in place, 1st geospatial enhancements ready, and begin preparation for handling recipient data

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GeoRecovery.gov TeamContract reflects a major commitment of recovery.gov to geospatial capabilitiesDevelopment and testing being done in a cloud computing environmentProduction will be on dedicated serversGeoRecovery.gov Team to:

Provide information on available federal data services Identify federal experts to participate in Beta testing Help identify technical/use issues that need to be

addressed Identify capabilities/data that will increase the site’s

usability to the public, federal agencies, constituentsRecovery.gov is being geo-enabled

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www.Data.govPurpose: “… to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.”Three components

“Raw” Data Catalog Tool Catalog Geodata Catalog

As of late August 2009:Passed the 400 mark on raw datasets available Passed the 200 mark on tools availableContinually improving the quality of the existing catalog records to correct minor discrepanciesGeospatial items: An interface was deployed to expose geodata.gov metadata that have been flagged by agencies for inclusion (based on meeting quality management principles) allowing approximately 100,000 geospatial data sets to be exposed through data.gov – LEVERAGING EXISTING EFFORTS

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www.Data.govFeatured Tool:The MY NASA

DATA Live Access Server

(LAS), over 149

parameters in atmospheric

and earth science from

five NASA scientific projects.

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Thank youQuestions?