1. Natural Resource Program Center NPSpecies Update Alison Loar and Michelle Flenner 4/21/2010

2. Natural Resource Program Center Update Topics Progress to Date Functionality to be Added in 2010 Procedural Changes for Naturebib Retirement –Editing Using NPSpecies MS Access Desktop –Uploading MS Access Desktop files –Science1.nature NPSpecies Changes Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 (released in May) Q/A

3. Natural Resource Program Center Progress to Date Released 2.0 Summer 2008 –Simple Certified Species Lists –Hybrid Data Structure Release 2.1 Spring 2009 –Using New Taxonomy and Unit Applications Transition from silo architechure –Full Species List and Park-Species Profiles Release 2.2 Winter 2009 –Addition of Park Classification, Management Fields, and Evidence Counts Views for Species Lists –REST style Web Services

4. Natural Resource Program Center Update Overview Progress to Date Functionality to be Added in 2010 Procedural Changes for Naturebib Retirement –Editing Using NPSpecies MS Access Desktop –Uploading MS Access Desktop files –Science1.nature NPSpecies Changes Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 (released in May) Q/A

5. Natural Resource Program Center Functionality to be Added in 2010 Ideally here’s the plan… –2.3 – Integrate NPSpecies with Match Lists To be released in next month –2.4 - Integrate NPSpecies with New Evidence Applications Voucher, Observation, and Reference May post-pone functionality until after 3.0 –3.0 – Retire science1.nature NPSpecies Need your input –You will be given a handout at the end of this session with a list functionality to be built for you to prioritize to help us determine the next few releases

6. Natural Resource Program Center Update Overview Progress to Date Functionality to be Added in 2010 Procedural Changes for Naturebib Retirement –Editing Using NPSpecies MS Access Desktop –Uploading MS Access Desktop files –Science1.nature NPSpecies 1.0 Changes Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 (released in May) Q/A

7. Natural Resource Program Center Procedural Changes for Naturebib Retirement Editing using NPSpecies MS Access Desktop Uploading NPSpecies MS Access Desktop –Updated submission forms for upload requests Science1.nature NPSpecies 1.0 Changes –Naturebib available to NPSpp in read-only mode –Reports with Bib data will work –Editing References via NPSpp will be disabled

8. Natural Resource Program Center Editing Using NPSpecies MS Access Desktop Desktop Data Entry for References –To Add Scientific Name Links to Existing Naturebib records Use desktop application to add or remove scientific name links to existing references in Nature bib –To Edit an Existing Reference in Naturebib Preferable if edits occur in the Reference application Ok to make edits to Title, Author, and Year Pub in Desktop –To Add New References not in Naturebib Add new references into the Reference application

9. Natural Resource Program Center Uploading NPSpecies MS Access Desktop Complete Replacement, Complete Replacement by Taxonomic Category, and Append New References –What you can do via desktop NPSpecies : Edit Scientific Name Links to Existing Naturebib records –Use desktop application to add or remove scientific name links to existing references in Nature bib Limited Editing of Existing Reference in Naturebib (Title, author, and year pub.) –Make modifications in the desktop NPSpecies –Let us know the BibkeyID’s of the records you modified on the submission form –What you cannot do via desktop NPSpecies: Add a New Reference not in Naturebib –Add that new reference into the Reference application »Wait to add scientific name links when functionality is available

10. Natural Resource Program Center Science1.nature NPSpecies 1.0 Changes Text here describing changes Reports like this will still work. Editing References from here will be disabled.

11. Natural Resource Program Center Naturebib Retirement Access to NatureBib Disabled May 14th NatureBib and NPSpecies shared Logins NatureBib records linked to Park-Species records in NPSpecies Link to full FAQ’s on NatureBib shutdown –https://science1.nature.nps.gov/naturebib/layout/main/FAQ sforlinkingtoNatureBiblogonpagemb.docx

12. Natural Resource Program Center Science1.nature NPSpecies 1.0 Changes Reports will work –Species List Evidence Counts View –Reference Profiles from Naturebib –Reference List Reports –Links to physical digital files Editing References will be disabled May 14th –Adding a new Reference –Linking Scientific Names to References –Editing Title, Author, Year published (couldn’t do anyway)

13. Natural Resource Program Center Update Overview Progress to Date Functionality to be Added in 2010 Procedural Changes for Naturebib Retirement –Editing Using NPSpecies MS Access Desktop –Uploading MS Access Desktop files –Science1.nature NPSpecies 1.0 Changes Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 (released in May) Q/A

14. Natural Resource Program Center Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 Welcome Page

15. Natural Resource Program Center Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 Search Page

16. Natural Resource Program Center Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 Results Page

17. Natural Resource Program Center Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 Downloaded data Help Page

18. Natural Resource Program Center Update Overview Progress to Date Functionality to be Added in 2010 Procedural Changes for Naturebib Retirement –Editing Using NPSpecies MS Access Desktop –Uploading MS Access Desktop files –Science1.nature NPSpecies 1.0 Changes Preview of NPSpecies 2.3 (released in May) Q/A

19. Natural Resource Program Center Q/A Any Questions? Quick Survey to Prioritize Content of Versions…

20. Natural Resource Program Center Important Information NPSpecies Contact Information: Alison_Loar@nps.gov 970-267-2112 Michelle_Flenner@contractor.nps.gov 970-267-2129 Portal Location: http://nrinf0.nps.govhttp://nrinf0.nps.gov Portal Feedback: nrinfo_feedback@nps.govnrinfo_feedback@nps.gov