Inventory and Monitoring Archives

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Inventory and Monitoring Archives

• Vital Signs Monitoring Meeting
• 8/21/2003
• Julie E. Fleming
• IM Program

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Natural Resource Museum Collection

• From the NPS Collections manual, a Natural
  Resource Museum Collection is
• A collection comprised of permanently retained
  specimens and samples taken from the living and
  nonliving components of the natural world and
  field data, records, and reports generated by the
  collecting and research activities.

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Management Policies 2001
Natural Resource Museum Collections consist
of field data, objects, specimens, and features
obtained for preservation during inventory,
monitoring, research, and study projects,
together with associated records and reports,
will be managed over the long term within the
museum collection
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IM Goals

• To store IM products in archival facilities
  which bests preserves the products for long term
• To have ready access to the products
• To have the products cataloged according to the
  Parks involved
• To have the metadata available for researchers
• To meet the requirements for a Natural Resource
  Museum Collection archival
• Scope of Collection

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Repository Sites

• Local Park Museum
• Regional Facilities
• Local State/University Facilities
• Private Repositories
• Technical Information Center (TIC)
• NPS Archeological Centers

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Western Archeological and Conservation Center
(WACC)

• Mandated to handle NR
• NARA compliant building (longevity of archived
  products)
• Can store the project deliverables in one
  location (digital data, analog data, specimens,
  photos, etc.)
• Have the taxonomic and collections management
  expertise
• NPS facility
• Products can be retrieved easily

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Status

• September meeting scheduled with WACC
• From the IM Data Management Workshop in Tucson
  in May 2003, approximately half of the IM
  Networks are interested in pursuing an archival
  solution with the Archeological Centers. Others
  currently had a working solution with a park in
  their network or a private institution.
• Per survey, most networks do not have an
  archival plan, or are developing one currently.
• Proposal for Archival with WACC is being drafted