NOAA Conference, Santa Cruz CA

1
Resources.
Solutions.
Results.

• NOAA Conference, Santa Cruz CA

November 5 - 6, 2008
2
Company Overview
3
SOURCECORP Fact Sheet

• Nationwide BPO and Consulting Firm
• - Competencies Process-based document
  information management solutions
• - Market focus Government, Healthcare,
  Financial Services, and Commercial
• - Digitize over 4B pages annually
• Headquartered in Dallas TX
• - Founded in 1994
• - 2,200 clients more than 3,000 employees
• - Operations in 40 states, Mexico, Philippines
  partnerships worldwide
• Company Value Propositions
• - Industry and application expertise
• - Nationwide coverage and infrastructure
• - People, process, management, and technology
• - Six Sigma quality management

4
Government Operations - Quick Facts

• 10 facilities in Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma, and
  Arkansas
• 500 team members dedicated to government support
• Conversion support for NOAA since 1997
• Other federal government clients include INS,
  FEMA, USPS, IRS
• Conversion support for 9 state government
  agencies

5
SOURCECORP Business Process Services
Document Scanning Indexing Imaging
Microfilm-to-image Tiff-to-microfilm
Barcode Large format
Mailroom Services Opening Batching Document
prep Document research Coding calculation
Data Conversion Key from paper Key from
image Remote data entry Key from
microform System/manual editing OCR
6
NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program

• 2008 Projects

7
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Incoming Records

• Mailroom/intake functions for the nations
  incoming paper climate observations
• Forms forwarded to NCDC Processing Center in Mt.
  Vernon
• Receipt, pre-editing, coding, scanning, indexing,
  data capture, and quality assurance functions
• Post images to IMCs WSSRD daily
• 2.6 million records processed annually
• 20,400 Fisher Porter rain gauge tapes per year

8
Production Capabilities
CDMP - SAO Data Capture

• 1928 - 1981 US Surface Airway observations
• 7.35 million observations digitized this year
• 880 million characters captured

9
Production Capabilities
CDMP - FORTS Data Capture

• Completed data for 215 Forts, including Fort
  Bidwell
• 196 million keystrokes captured
• 3.4 million observations this year
• Key-from-image
• Utilization of Excel spreadsheet
• Blind key verification
• Editing routines

10
Production Capabilities
CDMP - HPD

• Key-from-image application
• Full index data capture
• Full capture of recording station information
• Project completed - 72,733 images

11
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Lightship Observations

• Remaining 14 stations currently in progress
• Multiple forms
• Key-from-image

12
CDMP - REEF

• 111,936 surveys completed since 2005
• 350,000 records output
• All pages scanned to create images
• Information captured via OMR scanning

13
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Mexican Data

• Captured 450,000 images onsite in Mexico City
  from fragile aged bound books (2005)
• Information from 131 stations gathered
• Indexed images placed on WZZRD in 2008
• Data capture of information in process in
  key-from-image application

14
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Fish Landing Data

• Fish landing data from 1931 - 1968 1960 and 1965
  have been completed 1955 in process
• 228,032 observations completed
• Data residing on microfiche
• All fiche scanned and converted to digital image
• Key-from-image with full verification

15
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Snotel

• Estimated volume of 100,000 surveys
• Most surveys encompass Western region
• Simplex image/index duplex scanning

16
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Humpback Whale Sightings

• 14 books to process
• Processing implemented in 4th quarter 2008
• Books must remain intact

17
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Marine Mammal Health Stranding Data

• Program testing complete
• Processing to begin 4th quarter 2008
• Image/index
• Projected volumes 62,000 pages

18
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Fish Commission

• 40 of 230 images completed
• Project status complete

19
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Historical Sea Survey Rescue

• 4 books completed
• 21 additional books in process

20
Production Capabilities
CDMP - Vietnam Surface Observations

• 2008 project implementation
• 20,456 observations
• 1600 images to process
• FY10 completion goal

21
SOURCECORP Facilities
22
Production Capabilities
SOURCECORP Locations
23
CDMP Processing Sites

• Mt. Vernon, Kentucky

24
CDMP Processing - Staffing Levels

• 108 full-time employees from 4 Eastern Kentucky
  Counties for 2008 tasks
• 87 data entry operators
• 4 editors
• 3 scanners
• 6 clerks
• 6 supervisory/management personnel
• 2 full-time programmers