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Information Management

Information management is both a strategy, driven by customer needs, and an infrastructure, shaped by technology, for handling and distributing information. Information management crosses disciplinary and administrative boundaries.

USGS information management activities organize, catalog, archive, maintain, and disseminate earth and biological science data and information so that all potential users are aware of and can acquire the information. The USGS distributes a variety of high quality earth and biological science information in the form of data bases, maps, and scientific and general interest publications. An increasing amount of this information is now available over the Internet and on CD-ROM. Properly managed information can be combined and interpreted for new understandings of earth and biological processes, and has multiple uses across disciplines in government, the private sector, and the general public.

Highlight: Innovative Science Information Management

• Featured Information Collection Highlights
  • Coastal and Marine Geology
  • Data Production and Integration (DPI)
  • National Atlas of the United States of America
  • National Cooperative Geologic Mapping
  • National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA)
  • The North American Breeding Bird Survey
  • Real-time Water Data
  • Stream-Gaging Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
  • Terrestrial Remote Sensing
  
  
  
• Information Discovery
  • Global Land Information System (GLIS)
  • Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
  • National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
  • Technology Transfer Information
  • United States Surface-Water Data Retrieval
  • USGS Contacts and Sources of Information
  • The President's Cabinet
  • NSDI Benefits Program: Funding opportunity for Federal agencies
  
  
  
• Products
  • Publications and Data Products
  • The Gap Analysis Program (Planning for Biological Diversity)
  • Earth Science Information Center (ESIC)
  • EROS Data Center (EDC)
  • Geographic Names Information System Fact Sheet
  • USGS Mapping Science Software
  • Water Resources Applications Software
  • Geologic Applications Software
  • Scientific Visualizations
  
  
  
• Information Policy, Coordination, Standards
  • Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
  • National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
  • National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
  • GeoSpatial Data Standards
  • Water Information Coordination
  • IT Policy OnRamp from the General Services Administration
  • OMB Circular No. A-130: Management of Federal Information Resources
  • National standards bodies
  • Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
  • Standards for Digital Products
  
  
  

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