Recovery gov and Data gov Updates Ken Shaffer

Recovery. gov and Data. gov Updates Ken Shaffer NGAC Meeting August 25, 2009

Topics Recovery. gov Data. gov 2

Geo. Recovery. gov Supporting the development of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) website – www. recovery. gov Ensuring transparency and accountability Geo. Recovery. gov Team n n n Initially organized to support OMB/GSA Transitioned to support the Recovery Act Transparency Board (RATB) that now leads this effort Team members from FGDC member agencies and contractor support 3

Geo. Recovery. gov Team FGDC member agencies n DOI, EPA, DHS, GSA, DOE, USDA/FS, NPS, NGA, HUD Providing geo-enabling guidance to Recovery. gov developers (use cases) Provide support through the FGDC representative on the development team Respond to requests for subject matter expertise in use-case development, application testing, services identification August 20 th meeting with the new recovery. gov geospatial contractor n Smartronix 4

Geo. Recovery. gov Team Geo. Recovery Team provided history of efforts to date Smartronix reviewed and demoed v 2 capabilities Committed to reaching out to the federal community to leverage expertise and identify requirements through the Team Holding joint monthly meetings Interim meetings on specific actions called on an as needed basis Currently, inbound data is coming from federal systems, not recipients (USASpending. gov for example) August 27 th “sprint” deadline to have recovery. gov v 1 capabilities migrated into v 2 platform October deadline to have new site infrastructure in place, 1 st geospatial enhancements ready, and begin preparation for handling recipient data 5

Geo. Recovery. gov Team Contract reflects a major commitment of recovery. gov to geospatial capabilities Development and testing being done in a cloud computing environment Production will be on dedicated servers Geo. Recovery. gov Team to: n n Provide information on available federal data services Identify federal experts to participate in Beta testing Help identify technical/use issues that need to be addressed Identify capabilities/data that will increase the site’s usability to the public, federal agencies, constituents Recovery. gov is being geo-enabled 6

www. Data. gov Purpose: “… to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. ” Three components n n n “Raw” Data Catalog Tool Catalog Geodata Catalog As of late August 2009: Passed the 400 mark on raw datasets available Passed the 200 mark on tools available Continually improving the quality of the existing catalog records to correct minor discrepancies Geospatial items: An interface was deployed to expose geodata. gov metadata that have been flagged by agencies for inclusion (based on meeting quality management principles) allowing approximately 100, 000 geospatial data sets to be exposed through data. gov – LEVERAGING EXISTING EFFORTS 7

www. Data. gov Featured Tool: The MY NASA DATA Live Access Server (LAS), over 149 parameters in atmospheric and earth science from five NASA scientific projects. 8

Thank you Questions? 9