NFIS 2002-2003 Work Plans
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Executive Summary
This work plan is developed following the outcome of the September
18, 2001 meeting of Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM)
where support was given for the further development of NFIS beyond
the progress reported on at the meeting.
The NFIS work plan for 2002-2003 is predicated upon the understanding
that CCFM NFIS Steering Committee Members will be wholly engaged,
committed to making progress on this initiative and will provide
appropriate contact names as requested from time to time by the
NFIS Project Office. All identified contacts will have been apprised
by their Steering Committee Member of the support of their jurisdiction
for the initiative and be ready to work with the NFIS Project Office
and its associates in implementing an operational NFIS.
There are two dates that are recognized as critical to all CCFM
members, those being associated with the CCFM Deputy Minister and
Minister 2002 meetings in Nova Scotia during June and September,
respectively. While these dates are critical for reporting purposes
and the Project Office will conduct its work with the dates in mind,
there are some activities that will not totally align with the meeting
dates and therefore progress to date, rather than final, reports
will be the products for the meetings.
A series of action items are set out for the coming fiscal year.
Action Items
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ACTION:
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Identify and brief technical contacts on jurisdiction commitment to making progress on project.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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Steering Committee Members
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing, as NFIS Project Office requests contacts.
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2.
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ACTION:
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Define Application Services – 3 including one application using forest cover.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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Steering Committee Members
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TIME FRAME
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January 2002.
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3.
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ACTION:
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Service Registries and Services Implementation development following definitions.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office
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TIME FRAME
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Proof of Concept March 2002, Implementation March 2003
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4.
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ACTION:
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Prepare list of additional key information providers to be contacted, set priorities for contact and establish
working contact. List may be affected by Application Services defined.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office with input from Steering Committee.
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TIME FRAME
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Input received by end of November 2001. Complete list by December 2001.
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5.
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ACTION:
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Confirm key information.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office, key information providers.
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TIME FRAME
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starts January 2002.Linked to Application Services definition.
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6.
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ACTION:
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Prepare Communications material.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office
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TIME FRAME
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Material ready for use by February 2002.
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7.
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ACTION:
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Input to National Data Model Frameworks. |
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RESPONSIBILITY
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Key Information Providers, Steering Committee, NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing and co-dependant with key information identification.
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8.
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ACTION:
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Identify the order of remaining CCFM members for connectivity, taking into consideration the NFIS Project Office recommendation.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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Steering Committee, NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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List prepared by December 2001.
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9.
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ACTION:
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Promote NFIS technical developments and encourage key information providers to consider
other business applications.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing.
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10.
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ACTION:
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Prepare list of additional key information providers to be contacted, set priorities for contact and establish
working contact. List may be affected by Application Services defined.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office with input from Steering Committee.
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TIME FRAME
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Input received by end of November 2001. Complete list by December 2001.
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ACTION:
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Ongoing associated with Action 16.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Associated with connectivity priority.
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12.
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ACTION:
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NFIS will develop Z39.50 based metadata services. NFIS supports the operation of a national NFIS Z39.50
server supporting distributed search through the GeoConnections CEONet Discovery Portal.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing.
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13.
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ACTION:
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Implement Z39.50 servers on entry level NFIS nodes as required; continue metadata tool developments and optimization.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing.
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14.
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ACTION:
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Implement Z39.50 servers on entry level NFIS nodes as required; continue metadata tool developments and optimization.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing.
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15.
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ACTION:
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Enhance tools to support reading native formats (initially ESRI and Intergraph/Bently).
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing as provincial/territorial NFIS nodes are implemented.
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16.
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ACTION:
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Enhance capability and functionality of CCFM GeoExplore Web viewer; support enhancements to and deploy UMN Map Servers as required.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Ongoing.
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17.
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ACTION:
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Deployment of DACS framework at NFIS Project Office and on UMN Servers using file-based authentication following DACS delivery.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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DACS Contract deliverables expected February 2002. Deployment at pilot sites, using jurisdictional authentication mechanisms to be determined.
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18.
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ACTION:
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Deploy and establish connectivity to distributed warehouses as required/scheduled.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Associated with connectivity priority.
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19.
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ACTION:
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Conduct proposed sessions with jurisdictions.
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RESPONSIBILITY
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NFIS Project Office.
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TIME FRAME
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Associated with connectivity priority.
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NFIS 2002/2003 Activities
Deploy 5 (five) Provincial/Territorial OGC Compliant NFIS
Web-servers (Actions 10, 16 and 17 of work plan)
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Undertake Regional NFIS Joint Application Development sessions
preparatory to deploying NFIS servers
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Deploy Provincial/Territorial OGC Compliant NFIS Web-servers
Includes:
- Server hardware and software
- Load data
- Integration of server into jurisdictional network
Deploy NFIS Distributed Access Control System (DACS) authentication
against Provincial/Territorial servers (contract) (Action
15 of work plan)
Estimated Number of Installation sites = 8
Develop and Implement Service Registries (Action
3 of work plan)
Implementation operational NFDP Web forms data capture
(Action 2 of work plan)
In-house NFIS Development Activities (Actions
3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 of work plan)
The following in-house development activities will be undertaken
by NFIS Project Office CFS permanent and term appointment staff:
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Implementation of service Discovery and Invocation through CCFM GeoExplore
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Development of forest information services
- Forest type distribution within ecozones
- Forest type distribution by age class
- Representation within protected areas
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Registration of forest information services
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Initial development of service authoring tool suite
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MetaData tools development and enhancement
- Automated extract form OGC Get Capabilities
- Metadata lookup capability within NFIS Web Map clients
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Distributed Access Control System enhancements
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Pilot upgrading of NFIS Project Office server nodes to
secured socket layer (SSL) web server, BC and Newfoundland
to follow
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Undertaking initial scooping of authentication against
provincial/territorial server domains (BC and Newfoundland)
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Initial investigations of the Deployment of Distributed
Access Control System at Jurisdiction Pilot Sites – this
initiative is designed to validate the Distributed Access
Control System within diverse Web environments including
Microsoft IIS, Apache and others.
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Operation of NFIS Project Office Server and Services
- National NFIS service registry
- National Data Warehouse
- National data content storage (CCFM NFDP,NFI/CANFI, Carbon, and NRCan National Topographic Database, Forest Health, etc.)
- OGC Web Map and Web Feature services
- National NFIS Metadata repository
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Data presentation services
- Graphical representation of results (user defined 3D, pie charts , etc.)
- Metadata and data services for single or multiple features
- Subject classification of information holdings
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Web Services network monitoring
- Development of Web Services monitoring tools
- Application of Web Services tool
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Development of named user session capabilities
- User login and User groups
- Saved content, state and profile
- Simple feature geometry insert and annotation
- Establish NFIS mirror site for serving Canada’s 1:50,000 and 1:250,000 NTS maps
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