Data Management Workgroup
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Background
As they work to bring data together from disparate systems, conduct broad-based assessments, and deliver the resulting information to decision makers and the public via the My Water Quality Website, all of the Monitoring Council's theme-specific workgroups encounter similar data management, web development, and geospatial information system (GIS) issues. The Data Management workgroup will establish the overall approach to transform existing data management systems into a distributed system of databases, catalogs, and assessment and mapping tools to enable users to access data, metadata, and assessment products from a single entry point, or web portal. As defined in the Council’s Comprehensive Strategy, a key responsibility of the data management workgroup is to ensure that the theme-specific workgroups:
- Meticulously define their data requirements.
- Identify data requirements that cut across multiple themes and that therefore should be coordinated.
- Employ data management strategies that comply with appropriate national and state guidelines.
- Have a well-established mechanism for communicating data management issues to a body with overall responsibility for oversight and support of individual themes’ data management efforts.
The goal is to achieve only that degree of standardization necessary to meet users’ needs. In addition to looking inward toward the theme-specific workgroups, the Monitoring Council’s Data Management Workgroup will look outward to other partners within and outside of state government to ensure that the Monitoring Council’s data management strategy aligns with State and Federal initiatives and takes advantage of opportunities to utilize useful tools and approaches developed elsewhere.
- Workgroup Invitation, July 12, 2011
- Workgroup Charter, December 5, 2012
Membership - come join us!
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- California Department of Public Health
- California Department of Water Resources
- California Natural Resources Agency
- California Ocean Science Trust (OST), MPA Monitoring Enterprise
- California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)
- California State University (CSU), Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology (COAST)
- California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Center for Geographic Studies
- California Technology Agency
- Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
- Council for Watershed Health
- Ecolayers
- Esri
- Heal the Bay
- Humboldt State University
- IBM
- Klamath Basin Monitoring Program
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- LimnoTech
- Microsoft
- RimuDB
- San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) / Aquatic Science Center (ASC)
- San Francisco State University
- Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS)
- Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP)
- 34 North
Meetings
- July 26, 2018
- May 3, 2018
- February 1, 2018
- December 7, 2017
- July 19, 2017
- May 3, 2017
- April 14, 2017 - Steering Committee
- February 1, 2017
- December 16, 2016 - Steering Committee
- November 2, 2016
- September 7, 2016
- July 6, 2016
- May 4, 2016
- March 2, 2016
- January 5, 2016
- Agenda
- SWAMP Information Management and Quality Assurance Center - presentation by Melissa Morris
- Notes
- October 7, 2015
- August 5, 2015
- June 18, 2014
- April 23, 2014
- February 12, 2014
- October 2, 2013
- August 7, 2013 (Cancelled)
- June 5, 2013
- April 3, 2013 - 1:00-4:00 p.m., CalEPA Headquarters Building, Conference Room 240, Sacramento
- February 6, 2013
- December 5, 2012
- October 3, 2012 (Cancelled)
- August 1, 2012
- June 6, 2012
- April 27, 2012
- January 30, 2012
- Agenda
- Notes
- Esri Mapping Tools - presentation by Michael Dangermond
- Central Valley Monitoring Directory - presentation by Anne Littlejohn and Michael May
- November 22, 2011
- Agenda
- Notes
- Data Integration Approaches and Technologies - presentation by Peter Williams
- Toward an Integrative Software Infrastructure for Water Management in the Smarter Planet - referenced paper by Barbara Eckman, et al
- Evolving MPA Monitoring: Technology Solutions to Inform Decisions - presentation by Tony Hale
- SFEI's Portal Development and Data Management - presentation by Cristina Grosso
- Theme-Specific Workgroup Data Issues
- Data Management Workgroup Strategy: Our Charge from the Monitoring Council - presentation by Steve Steinberg
- Monitoring Council Comprehensive Monitoring Program Strategy Excerpt
- September 16, 2011
- Agenda
- Notes
- Maximizing the Effectiveness of Water Quality Data Collection & Dissemination - presentation by Jon Marshack
- GIS in California: Spatial Data Infrastructure Discussion - presentation by Scott Gregory
- My Water Quality Web Portal Data Infrastructure and Challenges - presentation by Jeff Kapellas
- An Overview of CEDEN - presentation by Steve Steinberg
- Biogeographic Information and Observation System (BIOS) - presentation by Tom Lupo
- Data Management Workgroup fact sheets
- Glossary for Information Management Discussions
- For additional information on the Monitoring Council's Data Management Workgroup, email Tony Hale or call (510) 746-7381
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