Evolving Interactive Communication for Improved Collaboration - Tim Antisdel

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Changing Dynamics

of Sharing

TRI Information

Tim Antisdel

March 31, 2009


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Changing Dynamics of Sharing

TRI Information

Agenda

National Dialogue

Early Data Sharing

Data Publishing


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What People Want

http://www.epa.gov/nationaldialogue/index.html


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EPAs Access Strategy

Develop the technology capacity to support information access from EPA.Strengthen Access Infrastructure

Create a program to learn and monitor the needs of EPAs information audiences.Customer Needs and MonitoringProgram

Cross-Cutting

Support EPA and its audiences ability to access information and collaborate using newweb technologies. Includes Beta.epa.gov, a digital space for EPA staff to experimentwith innovative web and software applications.

EPA and New Web TechnologiesNew Technologies

Enhance the integration of environmental information to improve corporateenvironmental transparency, especially regarding corporate lineage.

Corporate EnvironmentalTransparency

Publish to the web all major EPA data assets, which provides broader access to the rawdata.

Data Publishing Program

Use Information

Deliver information in multiple formats for different audiences, their level of access totechnology, and their spoken language.

Bridging the Digital Divide

Connect people to the correct internal experts who can help them find, understand anduse information.Connecting the Public and EPA

Understand Information

Develop and implement a search strategy for EPA and implement the Web ContentManagement System.

Search Strategy

Develop and implement a single EPA site that helps people locate environmental datafrom EPA and other sources.

Data Finder

Find Information

DescriptionActions


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What Users Want

(Data Publishing)

Raw data to be made publicly available as

quickly as possible after it is collected by EPA

Clear documentation that includes informationabout the quality of the data.

To conduct their own analyses and to

customize the data for their or their customers

use.

The Data in multiple formats and made

available through multiple access methods.


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User Groups and

their Needs

Data publishing responds the needs of twospecific groups:

Technical Users who need to download data(especially large data sets) for local use.

Data Developers and others who want tointegrate EPA data into their own applications

and/or to redistribute or republish it for theircustomers.

Ad Hoc Data Users that want to query thedata on-line using tools provided by EPA.

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How will TRI Respond?

Early Data Sharing

Enhanced Data Publishing


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Early Data Sharing

Planned for RY 2008 (CY 2009) Make the raw Data available to the Public as

soon as possible after the reporting Deadline Post the raw data files on the TRI website for

downloading State Data File Format

Basic Data File Format

Disclaimer: Percentage of Data & Data Revisions

Update 4 or 5 times prior to the PDR

Still have the PDR in Dec/January


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Early Data Sharing

Possibilities for Future:

Load Envirofacts and TRI-Explorer with the

Early data (on a flow basis). Post Disclaimer and Percent of Data Available

Limit the tools to non trend reports for early data

Release the Early data through webservices.

Issues: How much is enough data to start?

When should we release the data?


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Early Data SharingPossibilities for Future:

Establish a Collaboration site or tool Enable people to share their thoughts and findings

about the earlier data Their analyses If they think the early data is useful, ETC.

www.chemicalright2know.org.

Create a Real-Time PDR Replicate all the reports from the PDR as on-line

As data flows in, the reports would dynamicallyupdate.

Disclaimers and Percentage of Data Posted


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Data Publishing

Posting Data Files Target: Technical Users

Data Files

State Data Files Basic Data Files

New Formats Access Database with Queries built in

XML files

Other formats

More Frequent updates

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Data Publishing

Improving the On-line Tools Target: Ad Hoc Query Users

Envirofacts Labeling

Meta data

Ordering & Grouping

Information Access Division - Rewrite

TRI-Explorer Back-end Merge with Envirofacts

Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) tool

TRI-

Explorer
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/


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Data Publishing

The TRI.net application Target: Ad Hoc Query Users

Ad Hoc Query Tool

Downloadable to Desktops

Integrates other data sets

Has GIS mapping built in

Automatic Data Updates See the Presentation at 2:30 on Wednesday by

Bill Smith


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Enhanced

Data Publishing

Data Publishing Services

Target: Data Developers

TRI will establish a pilot implementation

of Data Publishing Services later thisyear.


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Whats a Data Publishing Service? Its a web service One or more programs that can be called

over the internet The specifications for calling the program

will be posted on the Internet It will be called from a Web application

(that a developer writes). Its not for an end user / the general

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The Data Publishing/Web Service will:

Receive requests for data Extract the needed data from a database

Format the Data in XML

Return it to the caller in a SOAP wrapper


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Why Do This?

Only Developers will use these services

TRI Data will have the potential of appearing anunlimited number of Web Sites andApplications throughout the world

TRI data will reach and aid more people

More Analysis and Study

The data can be Combined with other data in on-line applicationslike Mashups

The basic mission of the TRI program
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What data will be made available onthrough the TRI Data PublishingServices?

Facility DataChemical InformationForm InformationOn-site ReleasesOff-site Transfer Summary Totals

Source Reduction Info fromSection 8Activities and Uses

Off-site Transfer Locations and

AmtsTransfers into or within a stateTreatment Activities and MethodsRecycling Processes

Recovery Processes

Summary Reports

FRS Data (Lat/Long &

Prog. Ids)


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Basic Plan for Action

3. Build test/prototype web services using

OIC/CDX framework4. Find Partners to test

5. Get feedback

6. Adjust as necessary

7. Deploy Production Services


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Will our Data Publishing / Webservices replaceTRI-Explorer and Envirofacts?

No! Both Envirofacts and TRI-Explorer arealready web applications that provide aninterface that allows users to request dataand to display the data returned. DataPublishing / Web Services dont provide

this feature.

However, its possible that one day, bothEnvirofacts and TRI-Explorer mayincorporate the TRI Data PublishingServices as a means of querying the data.


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RSS Feeds

Target: Anyone Interested in TRI news

RSS - Real Simple Syndication

Whats an RSS Feed? A way of getting the latest headlines from your favorite websites and blogs. The headlines are actually links to stories, web pages, documents, programs,

wikis, blogs, etc. Basically you can announce the existence of anything that can be put on the

web

Things TRI might want to broadcast via an RSS feed The PDR is released TRI-ME web is available The Burden Reduction Rule has reversed The Reporting Forms and Instructions document is available New Data files have been posted


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RSS Feeds

To use an RSS feedback

Have means to read a feed

Download Feed Reader to your desktop

Browser that allows live bookmarking

Sign up at a website that provides a reader via an

account (i.e. Google Reader at MyGoogle.com)

Subscribe to a Feed


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Early Data Sharing Posting RY 08 Data Files in July/August

Several Future possibilities Early Release through

Envirofacts/Explorer

Web Services

Collaboration site for Early Release Real Time PDR

Enhanced Data Publishing Posting Data Files

Improving or Adding to the On-line Tools

The TRI.net application


RSS Feeds

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Questions

Certificated

Professional

Timothy Antisdel

Computer Specialist

Information Outreach BranchTRI Program Division

Environmental Protection Agency MC 2844T

1200 Pennsylvania Ave

Washington, DC 20460

Phone: (202) 566-0733

Fax: (202) 566-0727

[email protected]
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