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Challenge Grant Update
Linking the Network of Natural Heritage Biodiversity Data to
the Environmental Information Exchange Network
N. V Raman, DNREC, Oct 5, 2005
Challenge Grant Update
 EPA Challenge Grant Project:
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Benefits
Timeline
Participants
Proposed Data Flow
The NatureServe Network
Unique Challenges
NatureServe Vista Pilot
Additional Resources
Contacts
Questions
Project Benefits
 Implement a new, voluntary biodiversity data flow:
• Provides EPA and Exchange Network users with access to
locations of threatened and endangered species
• Supports conservation planning, environmental regulation and
decision-making
• Creates opportunity for applications that can consume
biodiversity data
 Document and share results:
• Promotes knowledge transfer to NatureServe network members
• Expands audience for Exchange Network to other conservation
organizations with similar biodiversity data holdings
Project Timeline
 Year 1:
• Develop and register XML schema for biodiversity data flow
• Develop and implement data access requirements
• Develop and implement data exchange tools
 Year 2:
• Develop and implement web service APIs
• Prototype user interfaces to the biodiversity data
• Pilot a direct application link between Delaware Natural
Heritage data and the NatureServe Vista decision support
system
• Document and share results
Project Participants
 Challenge Grant Lead
• State of Delaware, Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control
 Participating Agencies
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NatureServe
State of Washington, Department of Ecology
State of Washington, Department of Natural Resources
State of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources
State of New Mexico, Natural Heritage New Mexico
The NatureServe Network
Puerto Rico
US Virgin Islands
NatureServe
90 staff in 6 offices
- Member Services
- Conservation Science Services
- Information Technology Services
Member Programs
800 staff
- 53 U.S. programs
- 7 Canadian programs
-11 Latin American / Caribbean
programs
NatureServe Key Activities
 NatureServe:
• Establish scientific standards for biological inventory and
biodiversity data management
• Develop comprehensive and current databases for at-risk species
and ecological communities
• Provide information products and conservation services to guide
natural resource decision-making
 Member Programs:
• Collect, analyze, and distribute detailed data about plants, animals,
and ecosystems
• Track distribution and conservation status of species and natural
communities and map the locations of at-risk populations
• Conduct environmental reviews and assessments
SQL Server
Biodiversity
Database
Proposed Data Flow
XML
NHNM
Oracle
Biotics 4
Oracle
Central
Database
XML
CDX NAAS for
Authentication and
Access Control
Exchange
Network
Node
NatureServe
IL DNR
Internet
DNREC
Oracle
Biotics 4
XML
Authorized NEIEN
User or Application
MS
SQL
Server
Exchange
Network
Node
Exchange
Network
Node
WA DNR
Oracle
Biotics 4
XML
MS
SQL
Server
Exchange
Network
Node
Biodiversity
Database
Future NatureServe
Network Participants
Architecture
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Applications Layer – NatureServe
Explorer, NatureServe Vista, and other
custom applications submit XMLSOAP requests to web services.
Web-Application Services Layer – core
functionality is implemented as web
services and map services; security
services provide authentication and
authorization based on data provider
policies; this layer interacts with the
publishing database to retrieve
information in response to
user/application queries.
Database Layer – includes Biotics 4
source database, publishing
geodatabase, and policy store.
Unique Challenges
 Spatial Data
• Expose species location data
• Provide Web Services to access and query spatial data
• Create map-based user interface to spatial data
 Security
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Fine grained authorization roles
Attribute-level authorization
Data specific authorization
Impact on performance and caching must be taken into
account
 Heterogeneous Network
• Different deployment environments
• Different physical data models – similar logical data models
NatureServe Vista Pilot
To Guide Implementation of Delaware’s Comprehensive
State Wildlife Plan
 Demonstrate the use of the Exchange Network to
flow biodiversity data from the Delaware Natural
Heritage Program to a decision support system
 Develop the interface within the NatureServe Vista
decision support system to consume the biodiversity
data Web Service
 Use other available data services appropriate for the
project area chosen by Delaware
NatureServe Vista
1. Element Selection
Decision or
Alternative
Scenario
3. Conservation Summary Layer
2. Element Conservation Layer
4. Evaluate Goals
6. Query and Reporting
5. Conservation &
Land Use Scenarios
Status of Challenge Grant Activities
 April 05 workshop
• Gathered user stories for web services, drafted XML schemas
 XML schema for biodiversity data flow
• Schemas defining species and occurrence data in review now
• March 06 target date for registering with Exchange Network
 Data access policies and sharing agreements
• Drafting amendments to existing data sharing agreements to
accommodate Exchange Network methods
• Documenting proposed security framework for integrating finegrained access control services with NAAS
Status of Challenge Grant Activities
 Data transfer tools for extracting XML data from source
DB and importing into publishing DB
• Example work flows for data synchronization process in review
• Nov 05 target date for completing data transfer utilities
 Web Services
• Initial web service for presence of known indicator in
development now
• Jan 06 target date for completing web service APIs
 Prototype user and application interfaces
• Challenge grant partners to identify initial trading partners for
‘beta testing’ web services with partner application interfaces
Additional Resources
 NatureServe:
http://www.natureserve.org/aboutUs/index.jsp
 NatureServe Network:
http://www.natureserve.org/aboutUs/network.jsp
 NatureServe Vista:
http://www.natureserve.org/prodServices/vista.jsp
Contacts
Participant
Delaware
Washington
New Mexico
NEIEN Node Contact
Heritage Program Contact
Dennis Murphy
Karen Bennett
[email protected]
[email protected]
Debbie Stewart
Janice Miller
[email protected]
[email protected]
N/A
Rayo McCollough
[email protected]
Illinois
N/A
Tara Kieninger
[email protected]
NatureServe
Douglas Sellers
[email protected]
N/A
Questions?