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• Board Meeting Date: 7/22/2008
• Description: Water Information Section - Data Harvesting Project
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO
Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
TO: Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
Harris D. Sherman
DNR Executive Director
FROM: Susan Lesovsky
Jennifer L. Gimbel
Ray Alvarado, Chief
CWCB Director
Water Information
Dan McAuliffe
CWCB Deputy Director
DATE: July 15, 2008
Agenda Item 7, July 22-23, 2008 B oard Meeting (Informational Item)
SUBJECT:
Water Information Section – Data Harvesting Project
Introduction
The CWCB has been a leading provider of water information for the last decade. In keeping with the
major initiatives of the Board, the Water Information Section has been investigating how to further this
effort, making water information (from multipl e entities) as easy to acce ss as possible.
Background
Solany™ Document Management was hired to outlin e and define how to expand content search
capabilities of the CWCB and Colorado State Univ ersity (CSU) by allowing public users the ability
to search both entities from a single location. Mo ving forward, other entiti es would join, creating
an ever-growing repository of data while remaining seamless to the user community.
Solany and the CWCB will make recommendations on how to integrate the two systems and
develop a set of standards for wh ich other institutions could adopt, utilize and expand their search
capabilities and share th eir data collections.
Staff Recommendation
This is an informational item only. Staff plans to bring this project forw ard for a non-reimbursable
grant request in September 2008.
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