Project Demonstration

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Oregon Explorer

• Project Demonstration
• NRIC Aug 4-6, 2007
• Andrea Wirth, Oregon State University Libraries

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What is Oregon Explorer?

• Natural resources digital library
• Provides access to
• multi-format information for places of interest
• tools for integration and synthesis
• people resources
• context of issues through stories
• Place-based resource

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Why OE?

• OE Vision and goals
• technology
• accessibility
• partnerships
• decision making support
• OSU Strategic Plan (2004)
• Sustaining natural resources is one of OSUs five
  thematic focus areas

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Why OE?

• Digital Initiative
• Need!
• In 2000, a report on the state of the environment
  in Oregon found that information was not
  accessible to natural resources decision makers
  and others with an interest in Oregons natural
  resources. (Oregon Progress Board)

Before OE If youre just someone that wants to
know about a place, its tough, and people get
frustrated - Gail Achterman at OE Launch,
6/28/07
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OE Creators

• Partnership between and
• Team members with diverse backgrounds and areas
  of expertise
• Partners for basin and topic portals

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Whats next?

• Portals
• Wildlife
• Land use
• Imagery
• Rural Communities
• Spatial Data
• Fixing, fine tuning, bugs, improvements
• integration of map tool and literature searches
• Visioning, evaluation, role definition

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Admin tool

• Home grown
• Allows editing from various contributors
• OE team
• Remote contributors
• Technical Writer
• Partnership for Umpqua Rivers

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