Session: Information Management
Thursday, February 8, 2007 - 11:25 to 11:45 AM
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Overview of the Integrated Information Management System
Andreas Krause, Trinity River Restoration Program, akrause@mp.usbr.gov, (530) 623-3911
The Integrated Information Management System (IIMS) is a multi-disciplinary warehouse for centralizing the disparate data required to support the management of river systems. The IIMS vision is to build the default "go-to" tool to meet scientists' data requirements for doing research into river systems; if you want the latest data - you go to the IIMS; if you want to share your modeling results - you go to the IIMS; if you want to produce a report evaluating the success of an individual restoration action or a suite of actions - the IIMS has all the information readily available. Contrasting this, TRRP scientists currently have to put in considerable effort and go to several sources to collect together the data for common types of analysis.
The IIMS will be developed for the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP) over three years between 2007 and 2009. IIMS will be housed on Bureau of Reclamation computer servers with public access portals to facilitate data sharing and transparency with program partners, stakeholders, and the public. The A working version of the IIMS exists at the TRRP offices in Weaverville, CA.
The IIMS vision is to build a modular information management system by combining the common needs of several river systems into a central tool. This approach exploits the high degree of similarity of data and tools required for river system management. Essentially, the IIMS will use this economy of scale to repeat the IIMS for multiple river systems, each time benefiting from the existing implementation and therefore reducing the overall development effort. Reclamation will be able to easily implement and modify IIMS modules developed on the Trinity to meet basin specific data and analysis needs in other rivers basins.
Presentation notes:
The data base will be able to contain all types of data including maps, field notes, photographs. It will have simple visualization and display tools. A current, smaller version of the data base already exists on the TRRP website: www.trrp.net
Questions: Is there really a need for raw data? Will this be too much work for the researchers? This system is not being planned as an overly complicated or intensive program. The researcher will have discretion as to what exact data types are entered.