1. Network Information System EML status of LTER sites Iñigo San GilSep 19 2006 IM meeting, Estes Park ‘06

2. EML status of LTER sites Almost all the LTER sites have implemented the EML standard. The same LTER sites, have made EML metadata available at centralized servers. These “Metacat” servers have harvested 4,900 EML documents from LTER sites. “Harvested" here is loosely defined as: at least a few metadata sets of low content placed in the server. Also, the site has a good plan to place all legacy data in, and with specific plans to enrich EML, if appropriate. Over half of the LTER sites have attribute-level EML. This means that potentially, the associated data can be accessed and interpreted programatically. LTER Network Information System

3. LTER Sites EML Status EML: Past, Present and Future Past & present – How is LTER’s EML? Future – What needs to be done? WHY? Outline LTER Network Information System

4. EML status of LTER sites LTER’s EML past: Last year, some sites had yet to harvest, furthermore, some LTER sites had to implement the EML standard. This text is taken from last year “EML Status” report at the 2005 IM Montreal meeting. Now we show how these sites fared. “ How about the 25% ? FCE About to be harvested to an high EML level KNZ Has very rich EML metadata HFR Has implemented EML level 3ish. (To complete: Entity table) PAL Focus on site reorganization process long term plans CDR Working on EML implementation and harvest as we speak BNZ Positively intrigued about it JRN On the verge of posting level 5 EML for 70% of datasets ” harvested LTER Network Information System

5. Jan-05 Apr-05 Jul-05 Oct-05 Jan-06 Apr-06 Jul-06 Number of LTER sites LTER Sites EML Evolution : Graph Graph shows how the EML implementation changed over the last year and half LTER’s EML past & present LTER Network Information System EML evolution over time

6. MCR EML status of LTER sites: Present Attribute Level EML No Attribute info LUQ ARC BNZ PAL MCM KNZ JRN HFR CCE SEV LNO NWT SGS NTL AND VCR SBC CDR FCE GCE CWT PIE BES KBS HBR CAP No EML LTER Network Information System You can see a first order categorization of the EML Tier levels implemented at the sites There are fine differences not noted in the figure, such as the percentage of metadata converted to EML and the precise richness content

7. Site Harvesting Since TIER level Harvested sets % EML/ % Harvested AND Jun ’05 5 130 124 100 / 100 ARC Apr ’05 2 ½ 1598 1585 100 / 100 BES Apr ’05 2 100 2 80 / 80 5 / 5 CAP Aug ’04 5 79 30 90 / 70 100 25 CWT May ’05 2 ½ 190 100 / 97 GCE Apr ’04 5 279 245 100 / 100 HBR Jul ’04 4 112 100 / 100 KBS Aug ’04 5 41 40 100 / 100 LNO Jan ’05 2 (a few 4) 360 100 / 100 LUQ May ’05 3 ½ 96 100 / 100 NTL Apr ’05 5 46 43 90 / 90 NWT Jun ’05 2 ½ 139 100 / 100 PIE Jul ’05 2 ½ 118 111 100 / 100 SEV Jul ’05 5 97 46 50 / 50 SGS Aug ’05 3 9 10 / 10 DB work VCR Jul ’05 5 110 63 100 / 100 EML status of LTER sites: Some numbers LTER Network Information System BLUE, Sept 2006 number BLACK, Aug 2005 number

8. Site Harvesting Since TIER level # Docs % EML / % Harvested BNZ Oct – 05 3.5 139 90 / 90 - / - CDR Jun - 06 5 617 95 / 95 - / - FCE Sep – 05 5 265 100 / 100 100 / 0 HFR Mar - 06 3+ 96 100 / 100 100 / 0 JRN Sep - 05 5 50 35 / 35 - / - KNZ Aug - 05 5 43 100 / 100 100 / 0 MCM Feb - 06 5 167 100 / 100 5 / 5 SBC ’04 5 22 100 / 100 PAL N/A -- -- -- / -- -- / -- MCR New Site CCE New Site EML status of LTER sites: Some numbers LTER Network Information System BLUE, Sept 2006 number BLACK, Aug 2005 number

9. LTER Network Information System EML status of LTER sites: Looking at the Future Room for improvement ? Attribute Level EML -- units QA / QC -- make sure documents are accurate Direct, unobstructed URL links or Inline Data WHY improve? “If it aint broke, dont fix it” Check out what can we do today with WELL documented data See Trends Demo/workshop, Explore Kepler & ASM posters.

10. LTER Network Information System Why Would Anyone Do Good EML: Synthesis tools Excerpts from an ASM poster

11. Why Would Anyone Do Good EML: Trends NIS Trends : A web companion to the Trends book. Visualization of long term datasets LTER Network Information System

12. Why Would Anyone Do Good EML: Kepler Kepler : An open source tool to design & execute scientific workflows.