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Reports from the Executive Board and the Network Information System Advisory Committee (NISAC)

Reports from the Executive Board and the Network Information System Advisory Committee (NISAC). LTER Governance. Executive Board (9 voting members) Science Council (26 voting members) National Advisory Board (NAB) Network-Wide Standing Committees Information Management Committee

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Reports from the Executive Board and the Network Information System Advisory Committee (NISAC)

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  1. Reports from the Executive Board and the Network Information System Advisory Committee (NISAC) Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  2. LTER Governance • Executive Board (9 voting members) • Science Council (26 voting members) • National Advisory Board (NAB) • Network-Wide Standing Committees • Information Management Committee • IM Executive Committee (IMExec) • Targeted Standing Committees • Network Information System Advisory Committee (NISAC) • Ad Hoc Committees • CyberInfrastructure (CI) Team • Trends Editorial Board Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  3. Executive Board • John Magnuson (NTL) - Chair • through the June 2007 meeting of the Science Council • Chair-elect – Will be voted on by the Science Council at ASM • Deb Peters (JRN) - through Spring 2007 Scott Collins (SEV) - through Spring 2007 Mark Ohman (CCE) - through Spring 2007 • Sherri Johnson (AND) - through Spring 2008 Morgan Grove (BES) - through Spring 2008 Chuck Hopkinson (PIE) - through Spring 2008 • Peter Groffman (HBR) - through Spring 2009 Berry Lyons (MCM) - through Spring 2009 Dan Reed (SBC) - through Spring 2009 • Don Henshaw - Information Management Committee representative through Spring 2008 • Bob Waide (LNO) Executive Director of LNO is ex officio Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  4. Education /Outreach Information Systems LTER Needs Survey – March 2006LTER Exec Meeting at NSF, Arlington, VA Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  5. Supplemental Funding for 2006 Training LTER information mangers in Internet-based Information Management and Technology ($20,437) • Conduct a three-day training based on the latest technologies from NIS, SEEK and other development projects that could be immediately implemented. • IMExec survey indicates priority needs • advanced techniques with EML • web-services for LTER compliant data access, standard • relational database technology • All LTER sites will be invited to send representatives to the training session, which will be held at the LNO Technology Training Laboratory in Albuquerque. Costs of participation will be covered by the present request. Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  6. Committee Members (rotating off in 2006, former members) • IMExec Membership • Gries (CAP), Melendez (LUQ) [2005] • Boose (HFR), Walsh (BES) [2004] • Kaplan (SGS), Ramsey (JRN) [2003] • Benson (NTL), Brunt (LNO), Henshaw (AND) [ex officio] • NISAC Membership • PI’s: Hopkinson (PIE), Knapp (KNZ, SGS), Peters (JRN), Kratz (NTL),Ross (PAL),Gage (KBS), Harmon (AND) • IM’s: Henshaw (AND), Sheldon (GCE), Benson (NTL), Boose (HFR),McCartney (CAP) • LNO: Brunt, Michener, Servilla, Vande Castle, Waide Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  7. NISAC 2006Primary Agenda • Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Strategic Plan • Trends Book / NIS Modules • LNO Report / Discussion • IM Web Design Guidelines • NISAC Activities/ Future Direction Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  8. LTER Trends Project Products • A book • to be published by Oxford University Press, tentatively called “Our Changing World: Insights Provided by Long-Term Ecological Data”. • Major sections: 1) Introduction on the importance of long-term research 2) Site-based graphs arranged by four themes 3) Multi-site comparison graphs 4) Site descriptions and photos organized by biomes • Web page • The derived data used in the book • A dynamic web page will be implemented that will update the derived data Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  9. Trends NIS Module Comments IMExec - Feb 2006 • “IMExec suggests that this activity be used to scope and determine the feasibility of using EML in the development of NIS modules for solving general synthesis problems.” • “The premise of this project is that EML will adequately describe the data set (e.g., entities, attributes, physical characteristics) to allow the capture of distributed data sets into a central SQL database.” • “Determining the nature of this model for dynamic data delivery – whether it is more site-loaded or more (network) service-loaded – is critical.” • “IMExec suggests that the near-term Trends NIS module activity be focused on development of a prototype for demonstration at the ASM in September.” Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  10. Service-loaded Model to produce value-added data Use EML to extract site data and load into database

  11. Trends ProjectCritical Assumptions • Site data is documented with “rich” and “complete” EML • Site data is open and accessible through a standard protocol such as HTTP • Site EML documents are harvested on a regular basis into the LTER Metacat Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  12. Data Providers Central Site Public User Centralized ClimDB/HydroDB Database Harvester Data Warehouse ClimDB/HydroDB Harvester / Database/ Query Interface LTER Data USFS Data Web Page display, graph, download Triggers on-demand auto-harvest HTTP Post Access Tools site-specific data mining Query interface Exchange Format Web Services SOAP, WSDL USGS Data NWS Data Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  13. Data Providers Central Site Public User Centralized ClimDB/HydroDB Database Harvester Data Warehouse ClimDB/HydroDB Harvester / Database/ Query Interface LTER Data USFS Data Web Page display, graph, download Triggers on-demand auto-harvest HTTP Post Access Tools site-specific data mining Query interface Exchange Format Web Services SOAP, WSDL USGS Data NWS Data Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  14. Data Warehouse Content Primary emphasis • Observations: • Coverage of precipitation, discharge, and air temperature data is strong across sites. • We encourage sites to contribute relative humidity, soil temperature, wind speed & direction, and global radiation in datasets. Secondary emphasis Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  15. Air temperature and precipitation ClimDB Temporal Coverage – LTER SitesAir temperature and precipitation 1869 1927 1931 1993-2002 20 sites (83%) 1983-2002 12 sites (50%) 1937 1955 1957 1957 20 July 2004 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 1869 2005

  16. 20 years Air temperature and precipitation 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 ClimDB Temporal Coverage – LTER SitesAir temperature and precipitation 1869 1914 1920 1983-2003 14 sites (54%) 1994-2003 22 sites (85%) 1927 1931 1937 1955 1957 1957 10 years 28 August 2006 1869

  17. HydroDB Temporal Coverage – 28 Sites 1927 1930 1931 1936 1940 1940 1949 1951 1952 1956 1957 1958 1958 Streamflow USGS Small watersheds 28 August 2006 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 1869 2005

  18. IM Working Group Developed Recommendations in Response to Challenges of First Generation Web Sites: • Challenges: • Data Accessibility and Usability • Site Navigation • Network Identity • Communication of Research News • Web technology and content categories evolve* * Will need to review and update recommendations to accommodate changes in technology and delivery mechanisms as well as conceptual understandings, organizational categories, and synthesis strategies Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  19. IM Working Group Developed Recommendations: • Survey IM community to qualify user input • Identify User Audiences • Researchers (local and all LTER), general public, NSF • Share successful navigational and organizational components of LTER web sites • Recommend categories of information to contain similar content from site to site • Create design elements and links that communicate site is part of a network Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  20. IM Working Group Continues to Plan for the Future: • Explore SiteDB as a portal to standardized data, metadata and other information and to organize content uniformly • Explore links to standardized personnel, climate, bibliographic, etc. information via other all-site databases managed by Network office • Explore data discovery using EML and Metacat query tools • Keep updated on new web technologies and new information concepts Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

  21. NISAC Committee (2002-2005) • Presentations • Sevilleta CC (April 2002) • NIS status, IM informatics vision, ClimDB (Brunt, McCartney, Henshaw) • Kellogg CC (May 2003) • NIS report, tiered trajectory, ClimDB (Harmon, Henshaw) • Santa Barbara CC (April 2004) • NIS mission, tiers, EML, NIS modules (Henshaw) • Bonanza CC (August 2004) • NIS Module process (Henshaw) • Key Largo FCE CC (April 2005) • Data Access Policy (McCartney) • IM Review Criteria (Boose) • Virginia Coast CC (September 2005) • NIS Strategic Plan (Henshaw) Information Management All-Scientist Meeting 2006

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