Fish and Wildlife Service Catalog

These historical documents from St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge, FL, have been transcribed and stored in ServCat.

Credit: USFWS

The Natural Resource Program Center (NRPC) is collaborating with the National Park Service’s (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program to create a centralized place to compile and organize information from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This repository is called the Service Catalog or ServCat - a Web application available to Fish and Wildlife Service employees that compiles documents and organizes data, such as reports, surveys, databases, geospatial data and images.

Information about the Service or used by the Service can be stored within ServCat and centrally archived on a secure system. Additionally, this information may be easily discovered and retrieved using text and geospatial search tools within ServCat.

Learn more about ServCat
Help Videos
Introduction
Overview - This video provides a general overview of ServCat. (11:46)
Navigation - This video describes how to navigate the ServCat interface.(6:52)
Search
Portal - The Portal Search is designed to quickly conduct a general search. (3:37)
Quick Search - The Quick Search is geared to quickly conduct a general search, most often specific to an organization, like a refuge. (4:49)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtT7XvgKmis
Advanced - The Advanced Search provides great flexibility and is intended to narrow the search results to just a few records. (6:08)
By Reference Code - This type of search finds a record or records through their unique reference codes. (1:45)
Taxonomy - The Taxonomy Search provides scientific classification information. (3:32)
Organizations - The Organizations Search is used to find FWS organization information. (2:30)
Create
Create using a Form - Create a new record in ServCat using the form wizard. (10:37)
Create from XML Metadata - Create a new record in ServCat by uploading XML metadata. (4:09)
Create by Cloning - Create a new record in ServCat by cloning an existing record. (3:21)
Manage
My References - Manage Reference (records) you own. (2:45)
My Holdig Locations - Manage Holding Locations you own. (2:53)
My Collections - Manage Collections you own. (2:45)
My Saved Searches - Manage Saved Searches you own. (1:49)
OPOC Link Approval - Manage (approve or deny) Reference-Organization links for an organization. (1:58)
OPOC Assignment - Manage the list of OPOCs for an organization. (1:55)
Recorded Webinars
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Catalog (ServCat) -
June 27, 2012 ServCat webinar presented to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service GIS community (55-minutes).
Additonal Resources
Refuge Update September October 2012
Last fall and winter, Sara (Sam) McLaughlin and Sarah Shultz - National Wildlife Refuge System Inventory and Monitoring program contractors in Fort Collins, CO - visited nine refuges, at least one per U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service region, to create permanent electronic records of those refuges' critical documents.