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Tim Owen, National Climatic Data Center Jon Burroughs, STG Contractor - National Climatic Data Center

National Integrated Drought Information System: U.S. Drought Portal. Tim Owen, National Climatic Data Center Jon Burroughs, STG Contractor - National Climatic Data Center. NIDIS – U.S. Drought Portal drought.gov: A Window on Drought Information. Portal Timeline…

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Tim Owen, National Climatic Data Center Jon Burroughs, STG Contractor - National Climatic Data Center

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  1. National Integrated Drought Information System: U.S. Drought Portal Tim Owen, National Climatic Data Center Jon Burroughs, STG Contractor - National Climatic Data Center

  2. NIDIS – U.S. Drought Portaldrought.gov: A Window on Drought Information Portal Timeline… May 06 - Began educating the NIDIS Community about what a Portal is, and is not. June 06 – NIDIS WebIT Team was chartered to: Develop list of various options for portal software technology with a focus on security concerns, costs, required resources for initial start-up and long-term maintenance requirements. Committee members: Wendy Gross[1], Steve Ansari [1], Jon Burroughs[1], Ian Cottingham[2], Anju Shah[1], Jason Symonds[1]. Steering Committee participants: Tim Owen[1], Mark Svoboda[2], Jay Lawrimore[1],David Wertz[3]. [1]NCDC, [2]NDMC, [3]ESIP June 06 – December 06 - Assessed requirements for the Portal. Participated in Longmont NIDIS Workshop. Evaluated Portal Implementation Strategies Interviewed organizations that had implemented Portals: NBII, FRAMES, Geospatial One Stop, ESIP, NASA Prototype portal, C-Side, NOAA Fisheries, NOAA C-Side, EPA. Researched vendor options: Commercial and open source. December 06 – January 07 – Conducted in-house Proof of Concept evaluations of the two top commercial portal vendors. Rated vendors against predetermined evaluation criteria. Made final recommendations. Spring 07 – Purchased BEA/Aqualogic Portal software, and hardware. Began training and implementation. November 1, 2007 New Online Drought Information Portal Makes its Debut !

  3. NIDIS – U.S. Drought Portaldrought.gov: A Window on Drought Information What is a Portal? Think of a Portal as a hub from which users (NIDIS users!) can access all of the content that they will commonly need. It is a Web site and services that improve the access, processing, and sharing of structured and unstructured information within and across a given “enterprise” through: Portlets -A portal page is displayed as a collection of non-overlapping portlet windows, where each portlet window displays a portlet. They provide aggregated, reusable access to specific information sources or applications (e.g., web services, mapping applications, search engines). Web Services - Applications and utilities that allow data exchange in a highly interoperable, standardized language/vendor/platform-neutral manner. Crawlers and other content aggregation are supported. Communities - A virtual workspace of a portal for collaboration, communication, and information dissemination/collection. Communities contain portlets and projects. Collaboration through Projects -Workspaces within a community that involves subsets of Portal membership. Projects contain portlets and can be part of one or more communities, facilitating collaboration via overviews, discussions, and document/project management.

  4. NIDIS – U.S. Drought Portaldrought.gov: A Window on Drought Information What else makes a Portal Powerful? Customization –Ability to customize the portal page for different user groups and individuals. Security– Incorporation of security through roles and a fine granularity of privileges. As guest users, the public can access non-proprietary enterprise-wide information and web sites well as selected web sites as appropriate. Crawlers and Search Engines – Bringing in content from elsewhere on the web. Search content of the portal contained in the pages of the Portal and the Knowledge Directory. Designing a Portal is a Complex Process To be successful a portal needs lots of planning and the cooperation of all partners of the project.

  5. U.S. Drought Portal Showcase Three Showcase Portlets 1.) U.S. Drought Monitor (NOAA, USDA, NDMC) 2.) Drought Impacts Reporter (NDMC) 3.) Climate Prediction Center Seasonal Forecast (NOAA) Seven Theme Areas 1.) What is NIDIS? 2.) Current Drought 3.) Forecasting 4.) Impacts 5.) Planning 6.) Education 7.) Research 2. 1. 3.

  6. NIDIS Portal Phase 2 Work and Beyond • GIS Features • Enhanced content and linkages • Community collaboration tools and features • Links to emerging early warning networks and products (soil moisture, satellite, etc.) • Link to GEOSS/GIDIS • Links to pilot studies • Potential for data and information management/sharing cross-agency and at all levels

  7. Summary NIDIS’ U.S. Drought Portal Provides a Window for Interagency Data Collaboration and Dissemination • The initial phase of the USDP (November 2007) is allowing drought experts and general users to answer key questions about drought on an end-to-end basis.

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