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Coastal and Marine Knowledge Bank Project
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USGS scientists are faced with many challenges created by the Information Revolution. One of the greatest challenges is to use and preserve data, information, and knowledge for the benefit of society. The USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) meets this challenge with the development of a Coastal and Marine Knowledge Bank. Purpose
In "Science for Decisionmaking," a National Research Council (NRC) review of the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP), the NRC called for development of a Coastal and Marine Knowledge Bank (CMKB). This project is the mechanism to define, develop, and implement a Coastal and Marine Knowledge Bank, and to coordinate with other earth-science knowledge-management efforts (e.g., U.S. Digital Earth, National Atlas of the U.S.). Its purpose is to ensure that data and knowledge are readily and usefully available to address multiple, complex issues of the coastal ocean, the sea floor, and the geologic/hydrologic processes which affect them. All three CMGP Centers are participating. The Coastal and Marine Knowledge Bank will include links to the knowledge assets of other sources of coastal and marine geoscience information. One of the cooperative relationships established by the Coastal and Marine Knowledge Bank project has been with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). The developers of CORDLink, a GSC prototype digital library system for geology of the Canadian Cordillera, have worked with the CMGP Coastal and Marine Knowledge Bank, providing experience and guidance in our development of a system with similar goals. |
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