Paper presented at Information Interoperability And Organization For National And Global Forest Information Systems (IUFRO D4, D6)
September 17-19, 2003 Satellite event of the XII World Forestry Congress. Conference predates the naming of OSUL's "Oregon Explorer" but covers the collaboration and need for partnership building that was the hallmark of...
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Evolution of a
Natural Resources Digital Library
at Oregon State University
Bonnie Avery & Janine
The Rural Studies Program (RSP) at Oregon State University (OSU) and the OSU Libraries collaborated to create a Rural Communities Explorer portal (phase 1). (www.oregonexplorer.info/rural).
Oregon Explorer (www.oregonexplorer.info), a natural resources digital library developed by Oregon State University Libraries and the Institute for Natural Resources, was created for Oregon’s natural resource decision-makers to promote informed and streamlined public and private decision-making. Examples of projects and successes of the Oregon Explorer include a basin portal for...
The Oregon ExplorerTM (www.oregonexplorer.info) strives to support informed decisions and actions by people concerned with Oregon's natural resources and environment. The Oregon Explorer's multi-media environment integrates archived digital documents, mapping and decision support tools, and finding aids for specific natural resource issues and topics. This paper presents the chronology of...
To guide the design, content, and development of a natural resources digital library, the Oregon State University Libraries commissioned a needs assessment. Interviews with citizens, policy makers, and scientists show that potential users want to quickly find, retrieve, integrate, and synthesize well organized and geo-referenced information on Oregon's natural resources,...
Paper presented at Information Interoperability And Organization For National And Global Forest Information Systems (IUFRO D4, D6)
September 17-19, 2003 Satellite event of the XII World Forestry Congress. Conference predates the naming of OSUL's "Oregon Explorer" but covers the collaboration and need for partnership building that was the hallmark of...
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, JanineSalwasser and Catherine Murray-Rust
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Oregon State University Libraries has a vision
Paper presented at Information Interoperability And Organization For National And Global Forest Information Systems (IUFRO D4, D6)
September 17-19, 2003 Satellite event of the XII World Forestry Congress. Conference predates the naming of OSUL's "Oregon Explorer" but covers the collaboration and need for partnership building that was the hallmark of...
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Global
Forest Information Systems, September 17-19, 2003 Quebec City, Quebec.
Bonnie E. Avery, Janine
The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project (ILAP) was a multi-year effort to produce information, maps, and models to help land managers, policy-makers, and others conduct mid- to broad-scale (e.g., watersheds to states and larger areas) prioritization of land management actions, perform landscape assessments, and estimate cumulative effects of management actions for...
Paper presented at Information Interoperability And Organization For National And Global Forest Information Systems (IUFRO D4, D6), September 17-19, 2003 Satellite event of the XII World Forestry Congress.
Conference predates the naming of OSUL's "Oregon Explorer" but covers the collaboration and need for partnership building that was the hallmark of...
The intensity and scale of wildfires has increased throughout the Pacific Northwest in recent decades, especially within the last decade, destroying vast amounts of valuable resources and assets. This trend is predicted to remain or even magnify due climate change, growing population, increased housing density. Furthermore, the associated stress of...