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LAKEVIEWS

LAKEVIEWS. A Brief Introduction. WHAT IS LAKEVIEWS?. Response to COA. Federal/Provincial agreement guided by vision of a “healthy, prosperous, & sustainable Great Lakes Ecosystem” for present & future generations” Signed by 8 Federal Departments, 3 Provincial Ministries Establishes:

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LAKEVIEWS

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  1. LAKEVIEWS A Brief Introduction...

  2. WHAT IS LAKEVIEWS? • Response to COA • Federal/Provincial agreement guided by vision of a • “healthy, prosperous, & sustainable Great Lakes Ecosystem”for present & future generations” • Signed by 8 Federal Departments, 3 Provincial Ministries • Establishes: • priorities, goals, & results for enhancement & conservation of Basin Ecosystem • management strategies required to achieve these goals • roles and responsibilities of each party • commitment to report regularly and publicly • Key Principals: • Free Exchange of Information • data will be collected once, closest to the source, in the most efficient manner possible and will be shared

  3. WHAT IS LAKEVIEWS? • Response to COA Annex 4: • Develop an information management system for tracking environmental change & progress • Parties will ensure accurate and timely information on environmental progress by achieving: • Scientific data & information shared among government, organizations, and basin residents • Canada & Ontario will: • Develop and maintain information management system framework for COA • Provide public access to monitoring information through the internet and published reports

  4. OUR VISION An interoperable system of distributed databases linked by web services & mapping technologies that serves as a discovery, access, visualization & reporting tool for monitoring trends in environmental quality An interoperable system of distributed databases linked by web services & mapping technologies that serves as a discovery, access, visualization & reporting tool for monitoring trends in environmental quality

  5. HOW DOES IT WORK? • Adoption of best practices & standards • Information stays at source • Interoperable • Distributed • Free access to information • Build within, on, & around existing information services • Metadata to describe information • Web services to provide access • Compliance with standards (metadata and services)

  6. NEXT STEPS • Profile • Application • Content • Multiple “Views” • Enhance features • Requirements • Training • Development • Implementation • Marketing

  7. APPLICATION • Multiple Views • Utilize existing architecture • Create/apply page templates • Customize categories, sub-categories, & layers • Enhance Features • Links to multi-media • Improve access to spatial & temporal trend info

  8. CONTENT • Requirements • What do you need? • What stage of IM are you at? • Who is your audience • What questions do you want to answer? • How do you want to present your information? • What approach? • Training • Introduction at Management level • Working level “buy-in” • Capacity building • Tools

  9. CONTENT (cont.) • Development • How do you develop? • Who does the development? • Time… • Resources??? • Implementation • Making sure systems are compatible • Where does application sit? • Maintenance issues…

  10. CONTACT INFORMATION BRAD HILL Environment Canada (905) 319-7209 brad.hill@ec.gc.ca

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