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Fire Research And Management Exchange System

Technology in Support of Wildland Fire Research
and Management
Presentations by Greg Gollberg, Frames Program
Manager University of Idaho and Shelaine
Curd-Hetrick, Biodiversity Partnership
Coordinator NBII - SAIN
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The Importance of Fire
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The Importance of Fire Management
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The Importance of Science
Science Fire management plans and programs will
be based on a foundation of sound science. . .
Scientific results must be made available to
managers in a timely manner and must be used in
the development of land management plans, fire
management plans, and implementation plans.
National Fire Aviation Executive Board
(September 2004)
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Fire Research And Management Exchange System
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Mission Statement FRAMES supports wildland fire
and natural resource professionals and
policymakers, by promoting and facilitating
information and technology sharing, exchange,
collaboration, and development through a
state-of-the-art clearinghouse and web
portal primary users are researchers, who
provide the scientific basis for wildland fire
management, and wildland fire and natural
resource managers / practitioners, who need
state-of-the-art research, information, tools,
and data to assist their daily efforts.
FRAMES Strategic Plan 2007-2012
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An Emphasis on Tools
Wildland Fire Tools and Information Resources
Include Articles, atlases, charts, computer
programs, databases, decision support systems,
documents, encyclopedia, expert systems, figures,
geographic information systems, glossaries,
graphs, maps, metadata, models, news items,
notices, photographs, presentations, project
information, program information, references,
spatial and non-spatial data, surveys, tables,
thesauri, web pages, and websites
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CATALOG
NAVIGATION
and
CATALOG
NAVIGATION

• Subject Areas

RESOURCES

• Geographic Areas

• Data
• Documents
• Tools
• Projects
• Programs
• Web pages

• Partner Sites

• Browse

• Search

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2006 Milestones
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FRAMES in Transition
R D Prototype
Operational
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FRAMES Statistics
FRAMES Site Traffic

• Site Traffic
• Total Users
• Top Communities
• Top Resources

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FRAMES Statistics
FRAMES Total Users

• Site Traffic
• Total Users
• Top Communities
• Top Resources

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FRAMES Statistics
FRAMES Top Communities

• Site Traffic
• Total Users
• Top Communities
• Top Resources

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FRAMES Statistics
FRAMES Top Resources

• Site Traffic
• Total Users
• Top Communities
• Top Resources

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• Why regional portals?

Geographically defined as the same 13 states of
the Southern Area Coordination Center (SACC)
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Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi Alab
ama Florida Georgia South Carolina North
Carolina Tennessee Kentucky Virginia
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• SACC manages wildland fire and other incident
  management activities in collaboration with the
  10 other coordination centers in the United
  States.
• The SFP supports SACC by providing a single point
  access to fire related publications, datasets,
  databases, decision-support tools, models and
  state-of-the-knowledge literature synthesis in
  support of fire and natural resource management
  fore the southern United States is the goal of
  the SFP.

How?
? Through leveraging partnership expertise
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• Tall Timbers Research Station (TTRS)
• The E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database developed
  by Tall Timbers, provides access to over 18,000
  bibliographic citations pertaining to fire
  ecology literature with emphasis on the
  southeastern United States.
• Our Fire Ecology Thesaurus provides extensive
  indexing for out E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology
  Database with over 1000 keywords including fire
  terms, ecological terms, geographic and
  physiographic designations, habitat types,
  management types, and scientific names of plants
  and animals.

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• The Nature Conservancy
• Identified and entered metadata about Joint Fire
  Science Program and National Fire Plan projects,
  and the resources created under each project into
  the Southern Fire Portal Database of FRAMES.
• Added key regional metadata about non-JFSP/NFP
  projects in the southeast into the Southern Fire
  Portal Database of FRAMES.

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• U.S. Forest Service
• Providing access to the Encyclopedia of Southern
  Fire Science.
• Providing access to the related content of the
  Forest Encyclopedia Network.

• Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS)
• A compilation of synthesized information
  (navigated text, photos, graphics, bibliography,
  and fire science databases) developed by experts
  on hundreds of fire science topics delivering
  grounded information to practitioners and the
  general public.

• Southern Regional Extension Forest office
• Promoting and advancing the Southern Fire Portal
  and the many features that it offers and
  expanding the ESFS.

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• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• Providing metadata creation services for regional
  spatial and tabular data sets using the Federal
  Geographic Data Committees Biological Data
  Profile.
• Facilitating coordination among partners with
  respect to funding, contracts and communication.

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• National Biological Information Infrastructure
  (NBII)
• Providing metadata creation service for regional
  spatial and tabular data sets using the Federal
  Geographic Data Committees Biological Data
  Profile.
• Collaborating with the Tall Timbers Research
  Station to incorporate fire ecology keywords into
  the existing NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus.

• NBII Southern Appalachian Information Node
  (SAIN)
• Working with The Nature Conservancy to add
  metadata about JFSP and NFP projects and
  associated resources into the Southern Fire
  Portal Database of FRAMES.
• Coordinating with Southern Fire organizations to
  ensure growth of the SFP.

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http//frames.nbii.gov/southernfire
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Metadata on Tools Related Information Availability
and Use Spatial Domain and Information Time
period of Content Contributors Frequently Asked
Questions Technical Information Support
Information Metadata Reference Additional
Information
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• Southern Fire Portal Summary
• FRAMES-SFP is providing one-point access to
  diverse fire related information in the region.
• Draws form multiple sources each with independent
  support.
• Work in Progress
• Please help us identify folks within the region
  that have fire related content.

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2007 Highlights and Next Steps

• FRAMES Strategic Plan approved by Interim
  Steering Committee
• Establish Wildland Fire Use Module Community
• Records posted on FRAMES have been migrated into
  RCD online catalog tool is in beta test
• There are currently 1176 resources cataloged
• Data - 92
• Documents - 795
• Tools - 121
• Projects - 86
• Web pages - 82
• Implement Resource Catalog Database (RCD) and
  Online Cataloging Tool

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Next Steps Continued

• Update existing records
• Import FIREHouse content
• Catalog additional deliverables from FS Missoula
  Fire Sciences Lab and JFSP
• Continue to provide content and increase content
  utility
• Expand services and increase user base
• Develop implementation plan and prepare for
  hand-off to Departments of Agriculture and
  Interior in 2010

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THANK YOU !