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ORD Bibliography Environmental Information management

System (EIMS) Joint efforts with the Office of

Environmental Information EIMS-EDR Integration EIMS EIMS integration with Programmatic and

Regional IM efforts

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ORD Bibliography

Jeffrey FrithsenSIMCorB MeetingLas Vegas, NVFebruary 22-24, 2000

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Project Summary

Select and integrate a consistent set of tools to assist ORD scientists with finding and managing bibliographic information

Provide access to ORD’s bibliographic database through EIMS

Work with technical information managers (TIMs) to develop approaches to “publish” recent ORD publications through multiple mechanisms, including EIMS

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Expected Outcomes

Increase ORD desktop access to bibliographic resources

Improve interoperability of bibliographic search and management tools

Provide Internet access to inventory of ORD publications and link publications to related projects, models, and data

Provide direct access to more recent ORD publications (PDF, WordPerfect, other)

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Bibliographic Tools

Current Contentsfor finding recent

literatureReference Manager for managing lists

of references EIMS for managing enterprise

literature DBs

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Management Approach Project Leads:

Jeff Frithsen (NCEA), Carol Grove (NRMRL), Jonda Byrd (OEI)

Project Team: EIMS Development Team ORD Technical Information Managers

Contract Support: Initial funding $20K; Source NCEA Resource estimates for contract support

– FY00: 1 FTE FY03: 0.5 FTE– FY01: 1 FTE FY04: 0.2 FTE– FY02: 0.5 FTE

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Project Benefits

ORD publications database is made available to public and stakeholders Currently, publications database not available to Agency staff

or public

Process instituted for capture of information about publications Procedures reflect established peer review and approval

process Internet publication procedures integrated with document

management procedures used by ORD TIMs

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Resources and Schedule

Legacy database (1970-1990) Mapping of legacy database with EIMS started

(February 2000) Loading of legacy database into EIMS planned (April

2000) Resources budgeted: $20K

Resources needed for mapping and loading current (1991-2000) database and for developing business process with TIMs

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Environmental Information Management System (EIMS)

Jeffrey FrithsenSIMCorB MeetingLas Vegas, NVFebruary 22-24, 2000

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Project Summary

Continued development of EIMS as the foundation for the ORD SIMS

Development of EIMS as the ORD metadata repository Enhance features of EIMS web application Expand content of EIMS inventory

Emphasis on adding partners and integrating with new and existing systems

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Expected Outcomes

Provide comprehensive inventory of the projects, data, documents, and models created or used by ORD

Provide links between ORD data systems through development of a comprehensive data dictionary (data format wizard)

Through the delegation from OEI to ORD, develop EIMS as a part of the Agency’s overall approach to metadata management

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Management & Resources

Project Lead: Jeff Frithsen (NCEA), Bob Shepanek (NERL), 0.5 FTE

Project Team: ORD Partner Representatives (Gary Robertson, NERL; Vasu Kilaru,

NERL; Gary Collins, NERL; Janet Gamble, GCRP; Steve Hale, NHEERL)

EIMS Development Team OEI

Total ORD Resources: Approximately: $875K

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Project Successes

ORD Centers and Laboratories using EIMS as a metadata repository NCEA, NERL

ORD Programs and Projects using EIMS as a metadata repository Therdbase, ReVA, Global Change, UVNet

ORD Programs and Projects integrating with EIMS EMAP, ORD Publications DB

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Project Benefits

Improved access to ORD information, data, models and tools

Increased sharing of resources within ORD Working with OEI, improved access to

information from Program and Regional Offices

Reduction in IM costs to individual ORD programs

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EIMS - OEI - Regions and Programs Offices

Bob ShepanekSIMCorB MeetingLas Vegas, NVFebruary 22-24, 2000

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Project Summary

Expand Agency use of EIMS for “level 2” metadata

Modify EIMS to use EDR as data dictionary Modify EDR to accommodate science data

element descriptions Other agency use of EIMS

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Agency Metadata Strategy

EIMS

GILS EDR

GILS - Global Information Locator SystemEDR - Environmental Data RegistryEIMS - Environmental Information Management System

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Expected Outcomes

Strengthen working relationship among ORD and other EPA offices Regions 10,2,5,9 OEI, OW

Strengthen relationship among EPA/ORD and other agencies EPA/DOE NBII, NSDI

ORD products out/other stakeholder products in!

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Status

Delegation between ORD and OEI in place

OW, Region 10 using EIMS

Meetings with Regions 2,5 and 9 scheduled

EPA/DOE E-Print server operational in

April 00

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Management and Resources

Project Lead: Bob Shepanek, Jeff Frithsen, (NCEA) , .4 FTE, OEI, TBD

Project Team: OEI, EIMS Development Team ORD Resources: 1.5 FTE OEI Resources: 2.0 FTE Contract Resources:

FY00 1.0 FTE FY03 1.0 FTE FY01 2.0 FTE FY04 0.5 FTE FY02 2.0 FTE

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Project Benefits

Facilitated discovery, access and use of ORD data, information and tools for external stakeholders

Facilitated discovery, access and use of data, information and tools of external stakeholders by ORD

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