NRDT Data Standards

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NRDT Data Standards

• Or
• Whatever happened to BOFAT?

Inventory and Monitoring Program
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Whatever happened to BOFAT?

• BOFAT Buffet of Fields and Tables
• 2001 Data Managers Meeting (Las Vegas baby)
• Now NRDT Data Standards
• Committee
• Process

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NRDT Standards Committee

• About a dozen data managers
• Review and comment on proposed NRDT standards
• Adopt standards after review process
• NRDT Standards webpage
• http//science.nature.nps.gov/im/apps/template/Dat
  aStandards.htm

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NRDT Standards Process

• Based on NPS GISC standards process
• Standard Development Team
• A lead person and interested parties
• NRDT Standards Committee review
• 2 general review/comment periods
• Start to finish 60-90 days

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Creating an NRDT Standard

• Four easy steps

1 Create an Access database
2 Harvest into Dataset Catalog
3 Export XML metadata
4 Upload to the Data Store
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Standards Metadata

• NPS Metadata Tools Editor
• Edit with NPS_DataStandard_Edit.xml stylesheet
• View with NPS_DataStandard_View.xml stylesheet

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Searching for Standards

• NR-GIS Data Store
• Search Type Data Standard
• Search by keyword, abstract, title
• Search by standard status
• Conceptual Model
• Final Draft
• Adopted

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Data Store NRDT Standards

• Review comment on proposed standards
• View ER-diagrams
• Download adopted standards as a Access (.mdb)
  files to facilitate NRDT application development

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Questions???