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Luquillo LTER Information Management. 2009 Mid–Term Review El Verde Field Station June 4, 2009. introduction. History Progress Challenge Vision. History. events in the lter. Need to document. Need to team up and publish metadata. Need to have searchable data in the web site.
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Luquillo LTER Information Management 2009 Mid–Term Review El Verde Field Station June 4, 2009
introduction History Progress Challenge Vision
History events in the lter Need to document Need to team up and publish metadata Need to have searchable data in the web site 2001 on 1989 on 1995 on Organizing, cataloguing; Develop LUQ documentation standards and protocols Documenting and publishing the data on our first web Decadal Plan and the adoption of the EML standard
History • luq LTER online data sets
history 20 years as a learning and evolving process Bill Michener Metadata standards and developed ; data sets catalogued; Data filing protocol established John Porter Marsh White 1989-1991 1995on Inigo San Gil LUQ EML Level 3 2001-2005 LUQ EML Level 5 QC 2005 on Management of data 1989- on
history Dataset Design -PI -Information Manager Data Collection Data Entry Revision Quality Control and Assurance Metadata Preparation Revision Review Data Publication on WWW • data filing protocol
HISTORY MANAGING DATA • ALL DATA SETS ARE CONVERTED TO A RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TABLE • AT A LOCAL LEVEL, THE LUQ IMS HAS THE CAPABILITY OF QUERYING RECORDS OF DATA OUT OF THEIR DATA BASES AND APPENDING OR JOINNING TABLES TOGETHER
progress 2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS • new mechanisms to allow investigators to remotely deposit their data in the LUQ IM system. • Achieved for special groups in a private web site; new web site will provide forms to upload both data and its metadata. Plans for the LUQ IM Progress
progress 2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS • A scroll down Web site map with links to other U.S. LTER sites, and other Best Web Practices features; • Will be available in the new web site; Most of the Best Web practices features implemented in the current web site Plans for the LUQ IM Progress
progress 2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS • Translation of the already existing metadata to EML level 5 standards to allow data as well as its already harvested metadata retrieval by the LTER Network Office’s data warehouse: Metacat • Approximately 87% of the online metadata is in EML, 59% of which is in Level 5 QC Plans for the LUQ IM Progress
progress LUQ EML METADATA PACKAGES DEVELOPED
progress 2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS • Completion of a database containing GIS referenced list of all LUQ project sites (LUQ GIS database) • Simplified online version is being implemented in the current web site Plans for the LUQ IM Progress
progress NETWORK STANDARDS • Links reach content in few mouse clicks • All recommended links the home page in place: contact information, site bibliography: contact information, Searchable site personnel directory, Searchable site bibliography, searchable citations, progress reports and proposals, news, Network resources, research description, education and outreach • LTER Network Identity • LOGO AND ID • link to siteDB • The LTER network domain, luq.ternet.edu, • Navigation • Repeated navigation menu • Hyperlinked section in each main menu page • Data access • Home page link to data set catalog • Signature data sets • Local data sets search: LTER core areas, LUQ Categories • Link to the LNO MetaCat system: owner and by keyword • Prominent link to network-wide databases: ClimDB/HydroDB, SiteDB • Prominent link to EcoTrends LTER Web Site Design LTER Web Site Content
challenge Completing the goals for the LUQ LTER 4 • Challenges: -Providing the capability to achieve real integration of information in the INTERNET -Providing a searching mechanism in the web site that will allow users to obtain the data they are looking for plus related data sets and information • Tasks: • - Complete in time the translation of all of our metadata to EML Level 5 and develop the mechanism to automatically produce this level of metadata for new filed data sets • - Produce sets of keywords that will relate all the information in our web site