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Chair Rick Person called the meeting to order at 10:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Council offices in St. Paul.
Members present: Cities: Chairperson Rick Person (City of St. Paul), Private Research: Kent Treichel (Wilder
Foundation); Counties: Tim Zimmerman (Hennepin County), Jane Harper, (Washington County) John Connelly (St. Paul &
Ramsey County Charter Commissions); Metropolitan: Michael Munson (Metropolitan Council),); Academic: Will Craig (UM
CURA); School Districts: Robert D. Nelson (Richfield Public Schools)
Members absent: State: Don Yeager (LMIC); Tom Eiber (DNR Forestry) Business Geographics: Joe Ryan (Oppidan
Investment Co.); Cities: Maria D'Andrea (City of Robbinsdale), Judie Erickson (City of St. Louis Park); Utilities: Mike
Wood (Waypoint Technologies); Public Safety: Mark Tente (Lake Johanna Fire Dept), Dave Schroeder (Police Support
LOGIS); Private Consultants: Rebbecca Blue (SEH, Inc.);. Metropolitan: Kathy Johnson (Metropolitan Council) Marcel
Jouseau (Metropolitan Council Environmental Marcia Broman, (Metropolitan 911 Board) Nancy Pollock, (Metropolitan 911
Board); Utilities: Dale Nikkola (Anoka Electric Cooperative). Counties:); David Claypool (Ramsey County) Cities: Roger
Carlson (City of Minneapolis);
Visitors: Randall Johnson, Metropolitan Council MetroGIS Liaison; David Arbeit, MetroGIS Coordinating
Committee Chairperson
Support Staff: David Vessel, Heidi Welsch
1. Acceptance of the agenda and meeting summary
The agenda for this meeting and the summary for the October 9, 1996, meeting were accepted by consensus.
2. Report on Object Modeling Sessions in October and December
David Vessel described the work that has been completed on the Information Needs and Object Modeling project
since the last meeting of the Data Content Team. All of the information identified by the Information Needs
participants as needed by their job function was mapped into an object model. This model diagrams relationships between
and among different pieces of information. By diagramming the relationships, all of the original 800+ information needs
were combined into 80 statements.
3. Next Steps in the Object Modeling and Information Needs Process
The next step in this process is to rank and prioritize the information needs. David Arbeit and Will Craig
have created a survey template which asks each participant from the September Forum an all members of the MetroGIS
Policy Board to rank the 80+ statements of information needs. Craig and Arbeit explained that survey has been alpha and
beta tested and may have a few minor revisions before the final application. The survey sessions have been scheduled
for February 12 and 13, 1997.
David Vessel, Chris Cialek, Bruce Abbott and others from the project management team will be working to break
out and list all relationships and entities needed to answer each of the 80+ information needs. This will allow us to
understand the pieces of information and/or data which must be available to answer a particular type of question. The
team agreed that although it will be important and helpful to eventually list all the attributes of each entity within
the object model, the immediate priority will be to focus on the attributes of the information needs which are
identified as most important for MetroGIS goals.
4. Expected Outcomes of this process
The expected outcome from the object modeling process is a ranked list of objects with attributes which are
used to answer the information needs as identified in September. We may need to rank each attribute of each object as
well as the object itself. Most of this work will be completed by staff or project management team.
The final report from this process will not include any information on keys or identifiers. Thus, some of the
next steps of the Data Content Team may include this task.
5. Next steps for the Data Content Team: Strategic Action Issues
The team directed staff to more fully define the strategic action issues as outlined on the agenda for
discussion at the next meeting.
6. Next Meeting
The next meeting of the Data Content Team will be April 8, 1997 at 1:30 PM at Land Management Information
Center of the State of Minnesota.
7. Adjourn
The meeting adjourned at 3:30 PM
Prepared by Heidi Welsch, Assistant GIS Liaison, Metropolitan Council
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