Proof of Concept achieved! by Melanie Ransmeier and Mike Cox Using IRMA Web Services to create dynamic web applications

Presentation overview Project Inspiration Making it Happen Search criteria Data Set-up Getting the data - REST Page Layout Data Processing & Display Demo Future Work & Potential

Inspiration! Air Quality in Parks Goal is to provide park and network specific air quality information. Identify location specific air quality impacts Summarize relevant studies and monitoring Links to available data sources Idea! Let’s provide all of the significant references too. Problem – Don’t want to build or maintain a database to store this information.

IRMA Connections NRInfo already stores and manages reference information Most of our key references were already in NatureBib and transitioned to NRInfo Service oriented architecture allows for access to the databases supporting NRInfo from a public facing web page.

Search Criteria Provide high quality air references Park/Network specific Sort by topic aerosol contaminants deposition haze mercury Establish our own reference set Tie refs to locations in NRInfo Formalize key-words and add them to NRInfo records *ARD_Park-Air-Info_CollectionARD_Park-Air-Info_Collection nitrogen ozone sulfur toxics visibility Data Set-up

More data considerations Entering new citations Check for existing records first! Modify existing records Ownership = permission to edit key-words and locations. Making a reference visible on the web 1. Ref must be “activated” 2. and made “public” in NRInfo Information resource sensitivity must be set to “Non-Sensitive” this needs to be set for all legacy records imported from NatureBib or DataStore.

The Programming Goal Create a simple search page that pulls specific references from NRINFO and output formatted data to a web page

REST “Representational State Transfer” Fielding (2000) Rest Constraints: 1. Client-Server 2. Stateless 3. Cache 4. Uniform Interface 5. Layered 6. Code On Demand (Optional)

Basically You send a web request (URI) to get formatted data!

NRINFO REST NRINFO Reference Returns a Representation of Data in NRINFO database Here, it’s a subset of information pertaining to a reference According to Reference Application Help Manual: {unitcodes}&searchField={searchField}&searchStrings= {searchstrings}&format=xml

Reference Service Parameters Format – *Required Unit Code(s) Search Field Search String Start Index Reference Type Bounding Area

Base URI UnitSubject Custom URI format=xmlformat=xml && units=ROMO& searchField=keyword& searchStrings=ARD_Park-Air-Info_Collection;aerosol

ARD Search Page Design Basic Query – Unit + Keyword Formatted, Sorted Results

Bound to xml file easy to change reduces web page size Ideally, eventually will pull from Unit service Park List Bound to XML UnitList.xml … Rocky …

Ajax Panel I.Process Drop Down Values II.Form REST URL III.Request Info from NRINFO IV.Apply XSLT to Sort Results V.Return Formatted Data VI.Profit results.cfm

XSLT XML HTML

On update of Park or subject, region automatically refreshes

LIVE DEMO -- hopefully

Summary Actively getting freshest data from NRINFO Reduce Redundancy Data Storage Update

Future Work & Potential Allow multi-select from drop down lists Include download files when possible Update GRI & ARD publications pages to draw from NRINFO Improve efficiency of publication management Custom delivery of information on webpages More user-centric

References Help/ReferenceHelp.pdf Help/ReferenceHelp.pdf sfer sfer tm tm

Thank you Air Resources Division Ellen Porter Colleen Flanagan Ksienya Pugacheva Geologic Resources Division Bruce Heise & Tim Connors I&M Brent Frakes Kathy Dratch Lisa Nelson

Questions? Melanie Ransmeier Mike Cox