2007 Inventory & Monitoring Data Management Conference
February 12-16, 2007, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Conference Materials
Background Information
Agenda
List of participants
Conference announcement
Presentations and Handouts
(all are Powerpoint files unless otherwise indicated)
Monday Hands-on Training Sessions
Metadata Tools and Editor; NPS Data Store
Overview of SQL Server editions; making the move from Access to SQL
Jet vs. SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Simon Kingston
Flavors of SQL Server 2005 - Tom Richie
Upsizing to SQL Server 2005 from Access - Brent Frakes
Using the new NRDT front-end and back-end templates
Note: the completed front-end template is now referred to as the NRDT Front-end Application Builder (FAB)
NRDT - Using the New Front-end and Back-end Templates - Simon Kingston
NRDT FAB web site includes application, exercises, sample user guide, and links to example applications
Database Development Tips - John Boetsch
Tuesday Sessions
Update: Current status of Inventories and the Monitoring Program - Steve Fancy
Update: NPS Climate Progect - John Gross
New directions at WASO: the integration of resource management applications (IRMA) - Margaret Beer
The basics: service-oriented architecture, XML, web services, implications for WASO, networks, and parks - Lisa Nelson
User Board Update: NPSpecies; NPSpecies Overview (doc) - Steve Fancy
User Board Update: MADSAC - Peter Budde
User Board Update: NatureBib - Deborah Angell
User Board Update: NPStore - Dean Tucker
User Board Update: NRDT - Margaret Beer
Update: Vital Signs ArcIMS Project - Mark Hart, Lisa Nelson, Bill Thorp
Show and Tell (29MB)
Link to Prototype Natural Resource Data Portal (NPS only)
Wednesday Sessions
WASO Technical report series; Interagency Protocol Database - Steve Fancy
Network website update - Steve Fancy
Communicating science information to our primary audiences: Rob Daley;
Ann Rodman;
Geoffrey Sanders
Breakout Session: Data Management SOPs for Protocols:
- Bill Moore - "Unprofound Thoughts in Eight Minutes or Less"
- John Boetsch - Information Management Components of Protocols: document and PowerPoint
- Dave Press - Generic SOP Outline
Breakout Session: GIS Directory Structure: Revising the Old Model
- Pat Lineback - SIEN File Directory Structure
- Helen Thomas - NCPN Directory Structure
- Lisa Nelson - GIS Folder Structure-NRPC
- Brent Frakes - Directory Structure Best Practices
Monitoring case study: working with a large data management team - Gareth Rowell
Monitoring case study: moving into monitoring with a small data management team - Rob Daley
Monitoring case study: the devil is in the protocol details - Geoffrey Sanders
Monitoring case study: accommodating a legacy monitoring project - David Press
Monitoring case study: the transition from theory to practice when managing monitoring data - John Boetsch
Show and Tell (26MB)
Thursday Sessions
DM update: staff changes, inventory tracking, etc. - Margaret Beer
Breakout Session: Project Management and Project Tracking
- Brent Frakes - Project Management
- Tom Richie - Project Management
- Notes from group brainstorming (doc)
Breakout Session: Common Report Formats
- Margaret Beer - Towards a Set of Best Practices for Reports and Products
Panel discussion: Data Management Plans: Are they working? Where do they go from here - Fred Dieffenbach
Presentation and panel: Developing common vegetation standards in the Eastern Reagion - Geoffrey Sanders
Facilitated discussion: The data manager position: core duties; workloads; advancement; other topics - Brian Witcher