Providing Recognition of Cooperator's Contributions on NWISWeb Pages

In Reply Refer To: 
Office of Information 
Mail Stop 440 

MEMORANDUM


February 6, 2002



To:            District Chiefs and Data Chiefs 
From:           Stephen F. Blanchard /signed/ 
             Acting Chief, Office of Information 
Subject:  Providing Recognition of Cooperator's Contributions on NWISWeb Pages 
The USGS values the relationship and contributions our cooperators provide 
to our data-collection network. It is important the we recognize their 
contribution by providing credit or acknowledgement on applicable NWISWeb 
pages.  Cooperator acknowledgements as well as other textual messages, can 
be presented on NWISWeb pages at one or more levels:  (1) on all pages 
associated with a specific State; (2) on introduction pages for individual 
data categories for a State (real-time, SW, GW, or QW); (3) in 
introduction files for real-time tables; or (4) on all pages for a 
specific site. The Office of Information urges each district to include 
appropriate acknowledgement of cooperators contributions on their NWISWeb 
pages. 
Examples from NWISWeb pages are given below along with links to the 
relevant instructions for customizing the NWISWeb pages.  Once your 
NWISWeb maintainer has performed any customizations or changes to existing 
customizations, the new information is detected automatically every 5 
minutes and pushed to the remote webservers.  Should you have any 
questions, please send email to gs-w support NWISWeb. 
1.  Adding a cooperator acknowledgement or other message to all pages 
associated with a State: 
An example showing "Click here for information about data reliability" 
appearing on every page for the State of Washington: 
    /wa/nwis 
Instructions on how to add this type of message:   
    /nwis/?nwisweb_manual_faq#state_text 
2.  Adding a cooperator acknowledgement or other message to introduction 
pages for the main state page or individual data categories within a 
state: 
An example showing a "A list of our current cooperators is available 
online." 
from a State introductory page: 
    /mt/nwis/   
A more general customization of a real-time introductory page including an 
embedded image which could be a cooperator's logo:
   /mt/nwis/rt 

Instructions on how to add this type of message: 
    /nwis/?nwisweb_manual_faq#customize_intros
3.  Adding a cooperator acknowledgement or other message to the 
introduction text above a real-time summary table: 
An example showing "Streamflow in Montana is monitored in cooperation 
with...":
   /mt/nwis/current?type=flow 
Instructions on how to add this types of message: 
    /nwis/?nwisweb_manual_faq#rt_displays-2 

4.  Adding a cooperator acknowledgement or other message to all real-time 
data pages for a specific site: 
An example of a site specific message for site 05020500:
    /mt/nwis/uv?site_no=05020500 
Instructions on how to add this type of message:
    /nwis/?nwisweb_manual_faq#site_text 

Copy to:          NWISWeb Maintainers 
                NWISWeb Data Inquiries 
                NWISWeb Team 

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Steve Blanchard                 Acting Chief,  Office of 
Information        
U.S. Geological Survey                          Phone: 703-648-5629
440 National Center                                  Fax:      
703-648-5644
Reston, VA  20192                                    Cell:      
571-216-1423
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