Continuation proposal for: Archival backup and digital accessibility of historical Alaska and West C

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Continuation proposal for Archival backup and
digital accessibility of historical Alaska and
West Coast groundfish survey data.

• Task Lead Guy Fleischer
• Co-Investigators Robin Harrison and Nancy
  Roberson
• NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center

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AFSC Groundfish Task conducts annual trawl
surveys in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Gulf
of Alaska

• The survey data are important because
• they represent an important historical fisheries
  research data time series
• they are the definitive master data source for
  the recorded observations from our field work
• are an essential component of the North Pacific
  Fisheries Management Councils groundfish stock
  assessments

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FYO8
We were granted CDMP funds to create digital
copies of the original data sheets that were
archived from our groundfish surveys
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FYO8 WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED
160 boxes of data inventoried, documented, packed
and shipped 27 boxes of data scanned into
pdfs by contractors All data from 1999-2006
Bering Sea digitized We created a quality
reviewing system for returning data Researched
web based document management tools The FY08
CDMP funding was used up in about six month's
time
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FYO8 ACCOMPLISHMENTSWhat do they mean?

• Data delivery to the contractors is essentially
  complete
• About 25 of our data are digitized
• 10 of the scanned datasheets are now available
  on a common drive for Center use
• To finish this project, 120 boxes of data forms
  need to be digitized
• We are requesting increased funding for FY09
  this would allow us to complete 75 or more of
  the total project at this years rate of data
  digitizing.

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Work Proposed for FY09
DIGITIZE 2009 (80 boxes of data forms)
2010 (40 boxes)
INVESTIGATE a web based system for organizing,
searching and accessing the completed pdfs