Real-Time Distributed Business Analytics - Making Data Accessible and Sharable Across Data Discipline: Fisheries One Stop Shop

Distributed data management requires complex, if not sophisticated, data integration solutions to effectively support fisheries management decisions, analytics and reporting. What might take an individual several months of effort to integrate disparate data sets manually, can be automated once and for all, for the benefit of NMFS, its partners and the public.

NMFS and its partners have engineered the Fisheries Information System (FIS) Architecture to meet these demands. A singular web portal brings together regional data sets on demand by providing users a common language to make their requests through. These requests are translated into dynamic web service calls to the appropriate registered data sources in real time, through a centralized repository that defines where to go to get the data being requested. This web portal is called
Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS).

An Administrative Tool provides the ability to manage regional code standard translations between partners and FOSS for several characteristics such as species, geographic locations and gear, while governing data availability through time-stamped approval of registered data sources. These registered data sources can be qualified by several characteristics, enabling FOSS to consistently produce accurate,
cross-regional and national reporting in real time.