LUQUILLO LTER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

2009 Mid–Term Review

El Verde Field Station

June 4, 2009

INTRODUCTION

History

Progress

Challenge

Vision

Data Archiving Data Integration

1989 on 1995 on 2001 on

EVENTS IN THE LTER

Need to team up

and publish metadata

Organizing, cataloguing; Develop LUQ documentation

standards and protocols

Needto

document

Need to have

searchable data in the

web site

Documenting and publishing the data

on our first web

Decadal Plan and the adoption of

the EML standard

HISTORY

HISTORYLUQ LTER ONLINE DATA SETS

19921993199720002002200620082009

0 15 30 3574

104 117 127

0

75

4

On the Web Not Online

2005 on

Metadata standards and

developed ; data sets catalogued;

Data filing protocol

established1989-1991

LUQ EMLLevel 32001-2005

LUQ Web site development1995 on

20 YEARS AS A LEARNING AND EVOLVING PROCESS

Bill Michene

r

John Porter Marsh

White

Inigo San Gil

LUQ EML Level 5 QC

HISTORY

1989- on Management of data

Dataset Design -PI

-Information ManagerData Collection Data Entry

Metadata Preparation

Quality Control and Assurance

Review

Data Publication on WWW

Revision

Revision

DATA FILING PROTOCOL

HISTORY

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

HISTORYMANAGING DATA

Plans for the LUQ IM Progress

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.

PROGRESS2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

LUQ LTER INTRANET FUNCTIONALITY

Plans for the LUQ IM Progress

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

PROGRESS2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

Plans for the LUQ IM Progress

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

PROGRESS2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

PROGRESSLUQ EML METADATA PACKAGES DEVELOPED

2005 2007 2009

9875

46

021

65

EML L 3-4 EML L5 QC

Plans for the LUQ IM Progress

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

PROGRESS2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

LTER Web Site Design LTER Web Site Content

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

PROGRESSNETWORK 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

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

CHALLENGECompleting the goals for the LUQ LTER 4

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