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Inventory Phase Two
Objectives
To support fisheries management decisions by developing a national metadata repository of fishery-independent data and provide the information online through the web interface to enable the effective discovery, access, and use of NMFS survey information.
- Develop a Survey Inventory that shows the history and breadth of NMFS fishery-independent observations across regions;
- Serve up trusted fishery-independent metadata in Oracle database and enable NMFS customers to find it easily on the web interface with GIS applications;
- Respond to data calls and planning/budgeting scenarios;
- Establish definitions and standards for fishery-independent metadata repository;
- Develop policies and procedures for fishery-independent metadata collection, maintenance, updating and reporting in the national level database.

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