# Presentation: 207880

## 2001 Federal Depository Library ConferenceAgency Update: USEPAOctober 15, 2001

- Brand Niemann, Ph.D.
- Office of Environmental Information
- 202-260-2510
- niemann.brand@epa.gov

## Overview

- 1. Previous Presentations
- LandView III and IV: Viewer for EPA, Census, and USGS Data and Maps (Schools and Libraries)
- Digital Library of the State of the Environment
- 2. EPA Library Network Program
- 30 Years of Environmental Librarianship
- Core List for an Environmental Reference Collection
- 3. Environmental Terminology
- General Environmental Multilingual Thesaurus
- Environmental Terminology Web Page
- Terminology Reference System

## Overview (continued)

- 4. Content Networks
- eXtensible Markup Language and Peer-to-Peer Computing
- Environmental Node on a FedGov Content Network
- Permanent Public Access Archive
- 5. LandView 5 Featuring Census 2000 Data
- Preview for New Castle, DE
- Custom CD-ROM Service on a State-by-State Basis
- National on Two DVDs
- 6. Questions and Answers

## 1. Previous Presentations

- 7th Annual Conference:
- LandView III and the Digital Library of the State of the Environment.
- 8th Annual Conference:
- How to Use the Digital Library of the State of the Environment on the Web and on a Web-connected CD/DVD-ROM.

## 2. EPA Library Network Program

- 30 Years of Environmental Librarianship
- http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/index.html
- Annual Conference, July 2001:
- Jonda Byrd, 10 Year Service Award for Program Leadership
- Richard Huffine, New Program Manager
- Core List for an Environmental Reference Collection
- http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/core/coretoc.htm

## EPA National Library Network Program Web Page

## Core List for an Environmental Reference Collection

## 3. Environmental Terminology

- General Environmental Multilingual Thesaurus
- Order CD-ROM: http://www.mu.niedersachsen.de/cds/etc-cds_neu/software.html#GEMET
- Slide Show Demo: http://www.mu.niedersachsen.de/cds/etc-cds_neu/thes_slide_home.html
- Environmental Terminology Web Page
- http://www.sdi.gov/Environmental%20Terminology%20-%20Homepage.htm
- Terminology Reference System
- http://www.epa.gov/trs/

## General Environmental Multilingual Thesaurus

## Environmental Terminology Web Page

## Children’s Glossaries

## Terminology Reference System

## 4. Content Networks

- eXtensible Markup Language and Peer-to-Peer Computing
- “The Big Picture”
- Portals and Content Networks
- XML and P2P 101
- Education and Training
- Environmental Node on a FedGov Content Network
- Virtual Centralization of Distributed Content
- USGS Digital Library and Environmental Node
- Republishing of key content
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Permanent Public Access Archive
- Index Key Environmental Web sites
- Archive Key Web Sites with Statistical Data Sets

## “The Big Picture”

- Web Pages

- Portals

- P2P Content
- Networks

- Titles &
- Metatags

- Categories,
- Metadata, &
-  Databases

- XML

- The Semantic Web

- Structured Data & Information

- Integrated Web Pages

- Personal
- Web Pages

## Portals and Content Networks

- Content
- Network:
- Hierarchical
- Folders – Each a Portal!

**Search, Personalization, Document Management, Metadata, etc.**

- Portal (s)

- “Portlets”

- “Portlets”

- NXT 3 Interface

## XML 101

- eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is an incredibly powerful system for managing information. Use it with many other technologies (Java, ASP-Active Server Pages, etc.) HTML defines how elements are displayed; XML defines what those elements contain.
- Corporate and government information is undervalued and hidden because it is trapped in proprietary formats and “stovepipe” systems so it is not fully accessible and is difficult and expensive to integrate.
- XML make information more accessible and interoperable and “future proofs” it from periodic technology change.

## P2P 101

- P2P Collaboration – Turn desktop PC into a server that directly shares data with other PCs.
- P2P Networking – Each node in the network functions as both server and client without the need for central systems.
- P2P Technology – Just like the Internet – fast, flexible, and decentralized. (Ossi Urchs, Internet Guru)
- P2P and Web Services – Both are about Web servers communicating with one another.

## Slide 18

## Education and Training

- Commercial
- See Federal Webmasters Organization
- http://www.fedweb.org
- Web
- See W3Schools
- http://www.w3schools.com/xml/
- Government
- See Federal XML Working Group
- http://www.xml.gov
- See GPO Institute of Federal Printing and Electronic Publishing
- http://www.gpo.gov/ifpep/catalog/xmlweb.html

## USGS Earth Science Digital Library

## Environmental Node

## Republishing of the Annual Statistical Abstract

## Index Key Environmental Web Sites

## Archive Key Web Sites with Statistical Data Sets

## 5. LandView 5 Featuring Census 2000 Data

- Preview for New Castle, DE
- Will be available to download free from the Web site.
- http://landview.census.gov/
- Custom CD-ROM Service on a State-by-State Basis
- LandView 5 files on a state-by-state basis, as they pass review, will be released to the Census Customer Services Center for fulfillment of orders.
- National on Two DVDs
- After all states, DC and Puerto Rico have been released, Census will then master the DVDs of national data.
- Eastern and Western parts with common overlapping states in the middle of the U.S. on each DVD.

## Opening Screen

## Census 2000 Demographic Profiles

## EPA “EnviroFacts” Databases

## USGS Geographic Names Database

## Census 2000 Population Estimator

## Help System and Video Tutorials

## 6. Questions and Answers

-     Brand L. Niemann, Ph.D.Computer Scientist and XML/P2P EvangelistOffice of Environmental InformationOffice of Information CollectionUSEPA HeadquartersAriel Rios BuildingMC-28231200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20460202-260-2510 Voice202-401-0787 FAXEmail: _[niemann](mailto:niemann.brand@epa.gov)__[.brand@](mailto:niemann.brand@epa.gov)__[epa](mailto:niemann.brand@epa.gov)__[.](mailto:niemann.brand@epa.gov)__[gov](mailto:niemann.brand@epa.gov)_Web: _[http://www.](http://www.sdi.gov/)__[sdi](http://www.sdi.gov/)__[.](http://www.sdi.gov/)__[gov](http://www.sdi.gov/)_