government entities
Significant relevant features of ecodb:
- Provides a secure data repository for diverse data sets of an environmental and time series nature.
- Supports unlimited team based environmental projects, as well as collaborative projects with other stakeholders.
- Enables a holistic view and integration of data sets from various sources, and supports integrated natural resources environmental data time series monitoring.
- Adheres to industry standard parameters to monitor.
- All units of measurement supported, as well as calibration relationships to convert data sets into alternate parameters and units of measurement.
- Diverse data reporting, data import and export facilities.
- Graphical display of data sets over time, as well as graphical comparison between multiple data sets even with different parameters being monitored.
- Functions to rate the quality of the data sets.
- Ability to selectively publish data sets to the Public Domain.
- Identification and acknowledgment of original author of data sets are retained and embedded within the data set even after publication into the ecodb Public domain.
Major benefits of ecodb features:
- Provides a free standards based mechanism to enable contractors to provide their data sets to the Agency, and for other Agencies to exchange environmental data collection as part of public projects.
- Provides a rapid mechanism for providing copies of requested government data sets to the community and facilitates outreach and transparency;
- Leverages volunteer citizen scientists through use of ecodb licenses in support of environmental projects that can contribute their data collection activities to the public good.
- Engages the community and stakeholders through selective release of data sets to the public domain (hosted by ecodb), and which can be freely downloaded by the public and stakeholders in a variety of formats.
- Provides transparency to the community, and enables public search on data sets that have been released into the ecodb supported public domain.
- Enables the identification and location of environmental data collection sources both empirically and graphically (using Google Earth), with various filtering available on the selection of data sets.
Value proposition:
- Potential rapid deployment of ecodb facility with enrolment of authorized users as sub-accounts, with a designated Agency Administrator.
- Rapidly leverage your network of citizen scientists and Agencies to share data sets in your Agency’s area of responsibility.
- Through the judicious sponsorship of ecodb licenses, direct data collection activities.
- Provide leadership in open government through selectively publishing data sets to the ‘Public Domain’.
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