A Brief Introduction to the Chesapeake Information Management System CIMS

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A Brief Introduction to theChesapeake
Information Management System (CIMS)

• Brian Burch,
• Data Center Manager
• U.S. EPA
• Chesapeake Bay Program Office

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CIMS

• What is CIMS?
• What problems does CIMS address?
• How does it work?
• How are CIMS NEIEN related?

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What is CIMS?

• Chesapeake Information Management System
• CBP Executive Council Adoption Statement
• Calls on partnership to coordinate data
  information activities

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What problems does CIMS address?

• Access to data
• Geographically organized data
• Data documentation
• Conflicting standards
• Multiple versions of same data
• Multiple answers to the same question

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How does it work?

• Partnerships through MOAs
• Pennsylvania DEP, Maryland DNR, Maryland MDE,
  Virginia DEQ
• EPA, NOAA, USGS, CBP
• National Aquarium, Susquehanna River Basin,
  Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
• St. Marys River Project
• Versar, Inc.
• Common standards
• Linked to procurement
• Coordinated development

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Current Data Flow Process
EPA
State
Submission
Submission
CBP
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CIMS NEIEN
EPA CDX
State
NEIEN
CIMS
NEIEN
CBP
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CIMS/NEIEN obstacles

• Standards
• CIMS CIMS Standards
• NEIEN ECOS Standards
• Build-out of NEIEN

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• Questions?

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A Brief Introduction to Web Services

• Brian Burch,
• Data Center Manager
• U.S. EPA
• Chesapeake Bay Program Office

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Web Services

• What are web services and how do they work?
• Examples of web services?
• How does CIMS/NEIEN use web services?

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What are web services?How do they work?

• Web Service l Function

My Computer
Input 2, 2
Function Add 2 numbers
Output 4
2 2 4
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What are web services?How do they work?

• Web Services l functions that run over the
  Internet

Computer on the Internet
My computer
Input 2, 2
Function Add 2 numbers
Output 4
2 2 4
Internet
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What are web services?How do they work?

• Web Services l functions that run over the
  Internet and communicate in a standard format, XML

Computer on the Internet
My computer
Input 2, 2
Function Add 2 numbers
Output 4
2 2 4
Internet
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What are web services?How do they work?

• Web Service facts
• Can be written in many, many different languages
• Important they they communicate in a standard
  format, XML
• Are critical to CIMS NEIEN
• Caution!
• Requires partners site is stable
• Requires trust between partners

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Examples of Web Services

• BabelFish
• Input word in english, output language
• Output word in requested language
• NOAA/NWS
• Input weather station ID (KNAK)
• Output current weather conditions (temp, wind)

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CIMS Examples of Web Services

• MDDNR
• Retrieve shallow water monitoring data
• PASDA
• Synchronize metadata holdings
• SRBC
• Retrieve water quality data
• NEIEN
• Retrieve FRS data

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CIMS/NEIEN use of web services

• Functions to send get data from partner

EPA go get state data
State send EPA data
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CIMS/NEIEN use of web services

• Functions to send get data from partner

Data exchange template
EPA go get state data
State send EPA data
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Data Exchange Template

• Reconciles differences in standards
• Allows partner to manage data their own way

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State send EPA data
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• Questions?

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CIMS NEIEN replace with a diagram