2009 Mid–Term Review El Verde Field Station June 4, 2009

History Progress Challenge Vision

Data Archiving Data Sharing Data Integration 1989 on 1995 on 2001 on Need to team up and publish metadata Organizing, cataloguing; Develop LUQ documentation standards and protocols Need to 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

2005 on Metadata standards and developed ; data sets catalogued; Data filing protocol established LUQ EML Level LUQ Web site development 1995 on Bill Michener John Porter Marsh White Inigo San Gil LUQ EML Level 5 QC on Management of data

Dataset Design -PI -Information Manager Data Collection Data Entry Metadata Preparation Quality Control and Assurance Review Data Publication on WWW Revision

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 MANAGING DATA

Plans for the LUQ IMProgress  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 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

Plans for the LUQ IMProgress  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 2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

Plans for the LUQ IMProgress  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 2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

LUQ EML METADATA PACKAGES DEVELOPED

Plans for the LUQ IMProgress  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 2006 PROPOSAL’S IM GOALS

LTER Web Site DesignLTER 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 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

 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 Completing the goals for the LUQ LTER 4