Roy Sonenshein Gail Clement Unpublished Material http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/sofia/ The information systems project addresses the need for timely, high-quality and relevant information through the development of a digital library for the South Florida ecosystem. The digital library and related services will provide a comprehensive and coherent information system that facilitates the exchange, analysis and use of high-quality information resources across the diverse agencies, disciplines, and communities concerned with Everglades research, restoration and resource management. To enable all stakeholders of the south Florida community to use sound science as a basis for informed planning decisions and resolution/prevention of resource-management problems, efforts to synthesize, manage and disseminate high-quality scientific information about the greater Everglades ecosystem have gained increasing support and urgency. The resulting digital library will provide a coherent, widely available, and enduring online repository that documents the scientific knowledge and tools created through USGS-related studies in south Florida. It will also complement and interoperate with other federal agency information systems such as the South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) (http://sofia.usgs.gov/), developed and sponsored by the USGS South Florida Ecosystem Program; the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Clearinghouse (http://www.nbii.gov/index.html) maintained by the USGS Biological Resources Division; and the National Digital Library (http://memory.loc.gov) maintained by the Library of Congress. The digital library is also designed to work together with leading state-sponsored initiatives such as "Everglades Online" (http://everglades.fiu.edu/eol/), and "Linking Florida's Natural Heritage" (http://susdl.fcla.edu/lfnh/). This project was terminated 20011001 20030930 publication date Complete None planned -82.375 -80 28.5 24.5 none information management digital library biology ISO 19115 Topic Category environment 007 biota 002 Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology United States US U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, NIST Florida FL Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, FIPS 6-3, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology Broward County Charlotte County Collier County Glades County Hendry county Highlands County Lee County Martin County Miami-Dade County Monroe County Okeechobee County Orange County Osceola County Palm Beach County Polk County St. Lucie County none Kissimmee River Greater Lake Okeechobee Central Everglades Florida Keys South East Coast SW Big Cypress none No products resulted from this project Roy Sonenshein U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

3110 SW 9th Avenue

Ft. Lauderdale FL 33315 USA 954 377-5924 sunshine@usgs.gov http://sofia.usgs.gov/aboutsofia.html location of South Florida Ecosystem study area GIF Other project personnel include Tarla Toomer and Cortney Mills. not applicable not available Complete first edition of South Florida Ecosystem Thesaurus and prepare for electronic publication 1. Obtain colleague review of South Florida Ecosystem Thesaurus 2. Complete web-based version of Thesaurus and publish on the SOFIA web site Not complete Develop a master database of publications available through the SOFIA website and digitize additional documents. 1. Prepare and maintain master database of publications available through the SOFIA website and database 2. Scan in historical documents and prepare for posting on the SOFIA website. Documents will be obtained from all USGS disciplines and from other DOI agencies. Most documents will be served as scanned imagees, selected high interest documents will be converted to text. Not complete Roy Sonenshein U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

3110 SW 9th Avenue

Ft. Lauderdale FL 33315 USA 954 377-5924 sunshine@usgs.gov South Florida Ecosystem Roy Sonenshein U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

3110 SW 9th Avenue

Ft. Lauderdale FL 33315 USA 954 377-5924 sunshine@usgs.gov Digital Library No warrantees are implied or explicit for the data. unknown none Contact Roy Sonenshein for information about this project 20070312 Heather Henkel U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical address

600 Fourth Street South

St. Petersburg FL 33701 USA 727 803-8747 ext 3028 727 803-2030 sofia-metadata@usgs.gov Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998