Lorna Schmid - EWeb
Dave Govoni - EWeb
Sky Bristol - CSS
Tim Kern - FORT
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USGS Mobile Applications Development Support Framework |
Establish and support a USGS Mobile Environment website to provide support of portable hardware devices, application development and application delivery. The development of a framework to fully support this endeavor will require input and involvement by Core Science Systems, Enterprise Information, Science Quality and Integrity, Office of Communication, Publishing and the mobile community.
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Proposal is to cover costs for travel and a facilitator (10 3-day trips to one locale). Management support and follow up meetings will be required in order to ensure success for this critical process. |
Having a known and advertised one-stop shop for this information will save many staff hours that would be spent researching options and requirements.
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$20,000 |
The results of the meeting will be presented at multiple CDI and related calls and conferences, including the Citizen's Science Workshop.
Coordinate a workshop to bring a small group of experts together to develop a framework to suppport Hardware/Device Management, Application Development Support and Policies, Guidelines and procedures, and Application Delivery. Parties include: Core Science Systems, Enterprise Information, Science Quality and Integrity, Office of Communication, Publishing and possibly other Mission Areas.
Establish a One-Stop-Shop for all USGS that will provide, or link to, all the necessary information to manage hardware, support (mobile) application development and application delivery.
Supporting a one-stop-shop that provides content and is supported by multiple organizational units will facilitate and expedite application development and support. Ensuring that a clear understanding of the areas of responsibility across these organizational lines and developing the framework to allow for the information to be well organized and supported will be critical.
Having a known and advertised one-stop shop for this information will save many staff hours that would be spent researching options.
To drive home the benefit of having this kind of a community based environment that can respond to changes in technology stacks, new TOS that may need approval, etc. we'll provide some examples of questions that the Mobile Application Community is already fielding. Questions include:
Native Apps:
Mobile Web Apps:
There is also an extensive list of comments regarding policy, technology and business case review provided by MAD members that need to be addressed. These comments/suggestions/questions are are compiled here.
This project will cross many organizational units in USGS who have responsibility with regard to Mobile devices, application and application delivery. Every staff involved will develop expertise and explore background information on their own time.
All products developed by this group will be added to, or linked from, the DMWG web site, and comments from DMWG
Partner with external groups to ensure a holistic approach, such as Microsoft's myscience app, GSA, etc.
- Collaboration/co-funding/management between CSS, other Science Programs, EWeb, CDI (TSWG-MAD), PDE, OC; data and related web services management by "owners"; website(s) and applications - Public (website, knowledgebase) and intranet (developer resource) components - Developer resources to include data, information, tools, collaboration services Phase I: USGS developers have easy access to unified data, information, tools, services, and related resources to enable production and innovative, high-quality mobile applications to support both internal science-support and external data/information sharing needs. Deliverables to include: -- White paper on USGS best/recommended practices for mobile application development and how these practices can conform to government, department and agency policies -- Internal development and collaboration website -- Fully supported programming and data management environment -- Internal collaboration/learning environment Phase II: Third-party apps developers have easy access to unified data, information, tools, services, and related resources to enable production and support of innovative, high-quality mobile applications that use and highlight USGS data and information. Deliverbles to include: -- "Apps for Earth Science"/"Apps for Natural Science" (?) public website -- Extranet developer support and collaboration/learning website -- Contest à la EPA's Apps for the Environment developers challenge <appsfortheenvironment.challenge.gov> to (1) introduce the public website and (2) induce/promote on-going collaborative relationships with third-party developers