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Northwest Environmental Data Network Meeting

April 5, 2006, 9:00 - 4:30

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission
729 NE Oregon St, Suite 200
Portland, Oregon
503-238-0667

Logistics

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A. NED Agenda Items

1. Introductions
2. Short Updates from Workgroup Leads.
3. Planning for Regional Data Management Workshop for May 23 and 24, 2006.
4. Status of organizational arrangements for EPA Challenge Grant Application.
5. Development of NED proposal for regional information management.
6. Award of EPA Challenge Grant to National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and relationship to NED and other NW regional efforts.

B. PNAMP data management agenda items

1. Report on PNAMP/CSMEP Workshop.
2. PNAMP Inventory Task: Update and issues.

C. Afternoon session (1-4pm)

1. Discussion (20k PDF) of Data Partnership Agreement materials:
   1. BC Data Exchange Agreement (70k Word)
   2. Channel Steward Handbook (800k PDF)
   3. DoD data sharing (100k PDF)
   4. Global Biodiversity sharing language (210k Word)
   5. Harvard BCB data sharing agreement (40k PDF)
   6. National statistics on data sharing (420k PDF)
   7. Open Data Consortium data policy (460k PDF)
   8. Pacific Northwest Exchange (910k Word)
   9. State of Oregon Framework (480k Word)
   10. TPA Final Report: Best Practices (510k PDF)
2. Discussion of Regional Data Stewardship roles. See the handout "Geospatial One-Stop Channel Steward Handbook" (800k PDF) at pages 1-8 and definitions in Appendix C.
3. At 3pm, discussion of CBFWA “Status of the Resource” data needs with Amy Langston and potential collaboration with NED Portal.

Stewart Toshach
NED Coordinator &
PNAMP Data Management Co-Lead