1. October 20th 2006 Northwest Power and Conservation Council Stewart Toshach & Peter Paquet NED Project Coordinators Background - for the CBFWA Review of StreamNet and NHI Programs

2. CBFWA Presentation 2 BACKGROUND NED is following the recommendations of the Independent Scientific Review Panel (2000) and Scientific Applications International Corporation (2003) Studies NED MOU developed in December 2004 Background material is posted at http://www.nwcouncil.org/ned/Default.asp

3. CBFWA Presentation 3 NED GOAL To improve the quality, quantity, and availability of regional data and related information on fish, wildlife and water using a publicly supported approach to information systems management

4. CBFWA Presentation 4 Signed MOU and participating: BPA, EPA, NMFS - NWFSC and NWRO, USACE, CRITFC, State of the Salmon Consortium, NPCC, PSMFC, BC Integrated Land Management Bureau, States of Washington and Oregon. Not signed but participating: USBoR, USFS, USBLM, USGS, USFWS, NWIFC, States of Montana and Idaho. MOU & STEERING COMMITTEE

5. CBFWA Presentation 5 HOW NED FITS IN

6. CBFWA Presentation 6 Temporal & Spatial. Joy Paulus, WA IAC Technology for Data Discovery and Sharing. Tom Pansky, BPA Salmonid Monitoring and Research. Stewart Toshach, NED Subbasin Planning Data. Peter Paquet, NPCC & Phil Roger, CRITFC Regional Aquatic, Riparian and Upland Habitat Data. Tom ONeil, NWHI Water Quality Data. David Tetta, EPA NED WORK GROUPS & LEADS

7. CBFWA Presentation 7 PRODUCTS Best Practices for Reporting Locational and Time Related Data Check List for Organizing Field Collection and Management of Data (Draft) Best Practices for Data Dictionary Definitions and Usage (Draft) Completed recovery and integration of Subbasin EDT data and reach system data (NWHI)

8. CBFWA Presentation 8 PRODUCTS (Continued) Inventory of Water Quality and Other Related Databases for the Pacific Northwest Data Base Inventory of Data Definitions for Riparian and Upland Species White Papers for 2005 Regional Data Sharing & Discovery Workshop and Executive Recommendations Findings of 2006 Regional Environmental Data Sharing Workshop Hosted PNAMP Data Management Meetings

9. CBFWA Presentation 9 PRODUCTS (Continued) Researched, installed, tested and deployed a Northwest Environmental Data Network Portal see: http://nppc.bpa.gov/Portal Completed NED Portal Channels and Data Steward Roles and Responsibilities Guidance Completed NED Portal Data Sharing Agreement Cross-Walks of PCSRF, PISCES & other data dictionaries

10. CBFWA Presentation 10 Summary Regional Data Network Strategy and Needed Action 1.Build participation in MOU. 2.Move beyond the current ad-hoc arrangements for long term return on investment. 3.Focus on data standards, data stewardship, data quality (low cost - high impact).

11. CBFWA Presentation 11 Summary Regional Data Network Strategy and Needed Action 4. Maintain data definitions in an on-line regional data dictionary (evaluate Protocol Builder). 5. Work on data discovery and sharing. Populate and staff the NED Portal. 6 Migrate towards a DDBMS (distributed database management system) to connect regional databases into a coherent network.

12. CBFWA Presentation 12 OPERATIONAL MODEL

13. CBFWA Presentation 13 Questions and Answers

14. CBFWA Presentation 14 COMPARISON Warehouse approach Distributed database management system (DDBMS)

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17. CBFWA Presentation 17 Principle: Collect Once & Roll up Number of users Data size

18. CBFWA Presentation 18 PRINCIPLE – DATA CYCLE data submission data collection Integrate these Processes data storage data sharing data access feedback data analysis