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Northwest Environmental Data Network Meeting

February 6, 2008, 9:00 - 3:00

Northwest Power & Conservation Council
851 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1100
Portland, Oregon
503-222-5161 or 800-452-5161

Conference call arrangements:

Please dial 877-848-1997. You will then be asked to enter the conference code.  Enter code 338 to connect to the call.

Agenda

9:00

1. Introductions (15)
2. Update on Responses to Summit and Next Steps and Task 4 product (Stewart) (35)
   download (670k Word)
3. Work Plan Action Items (Tom Iverson) (35)
4. Advancing Metadata reporting and Metadata Template (Bruce Schmidt) (35)
   questions (110k Excel) and discussion/presentation (5mb PowerPoint)
5. Best Practices Document Status (20)
   download (420k Word)
6. Puget Sound Update (Stewart) (20)
7. PNAMP information management items (20)
   Final draft PNAMP data steward position description (80k Word)

Noon - 1:00 — Lunch

Afternoon Work Session 1:00 - 3:00

8. NED Community Page Development (Tom O’Neil and Jennifer Pollock). (90)
   1. Discuss the development and application of a new NED portal community page around relevant habitat data sets associated with the Pacific Northwest, including USGS-one stop, NBII-PNWIN, NED, PNW-RGIC, and other groups that house regional habitat data. Discuss a vision on how to develop a community page that a) streamlines regional data and b) effectively collaborates relevant regional data. (15 minutes)
   2. Develop goals and objectives of a community page and brainstorm thematic applications. (30 minutes)
   3. Plan logistics around developing community page; Who? When? Where? And Funding? (15 minutes)
   4. Define roles and responsibilities for individuals participating in the creation and maintenance of the community page. (15 minutes)
   5. Follow up action items (10 minutes)
   6. Set next meeting (5 minutes)

   This discussion also relates to two documents previously prepared by the NED SC – for reference:
   ChannelSteward (130k PDf) and Portal Sharing Agreement (110k PDF)

9. Follow up as needed on morning agenda items, or more time on agenda item 8 (30)