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Tools for tomorrow’s floodplain manager: Data management and toolsASFPM annual conference 2008David FordDavid Ford Consulting Engineers, Inc.Sacramento, CA
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1. Gather2. Organize3. Refine4. Distribute
1. Gather
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Marvin Nauman/FEMA photo
Sacramento Bee
2. Organize
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Ernest To Center for Research in Water Resources
University of Texas at Austin 20061011
Data Source and Network Sites Variables Values Metadata
Controlled Vocabulary Tables
A data source operates an observation network A network is a set of observation sites
Depth of snow pack
Streamflow
Landuse, Vegetation
Windspeed, Precipitation
Data Delivery
e.g. mg/kg, cfs
e.g. depth
e.g. Non-detect,Estimated,
A site is a point location where one or more variables are measured
Metadata provide information about the context of the observation.
A variable is a property describing the flow or quality of water
A value is an observation of a variable at a particular time
Data Discovery
http://www.cuahsi.org/his/documentation.html
• Open
• Interoperable
Information
Knowle
dgeD
ata
3. Refine
Not me. I
swear
from IBM’s Website (of course)
from Northwest Hydraulic Consultants
1968: No network at all
1969: 4 sites
1971: Developers predicted 2000 users @ 14 sites
Today: 2,000,000,000 users @ 100,000,000+ sites
Peter Salus (2008). The ARPANET Sourcebook: The Unpublished Foundations of the Internet
HEC-ResSim
Corps' database
NWSRFS
HEC-ResSim
CDEC database
21
56
3
HEC-ResSim
10
9
8
7
11
4
Reservoir operators CDEC Web
server
Corps' Web
server
Corps' firewall
Synchronized
configuration
database
User interaction interface
User interaction interface
Systems management
Systems management
Provisioning tool
Provisioning tool
Monitoring and metering
Monitoring and meteringServices catalogServices catalog
Servers (remote connection via
Internet)
Servers (remote connection via
Internet)
4. Distribute
N=1+ R=G+ co-create
Prahalad & Krishnan, The new age of innovation, 2008
1. Gather2. Organize3. Refine4. Distribute
… the shelf life of biscuits and technology is about the same.Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems, quoted in New York Times, March 27, 1993
