Bonanza Creek LTER Information Management 2013

Information Management at BNZ Information Management Data & Metadata Website & Communication Education & Outreach Information Technology

BNZ Information Management Team BNZ Staff Information Manager Field Technician Site Manager University of Alaska Fairbanks LTER Network US Forest Service BNZ Leadership Team Office of Information Technology LTER Network Office Institute of Arctic Biology Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic Planning PI & Co-PI’s Information Management Committee Research Aide Other Research Labs IMC Working Groups Network Information System Developers Senior Investigators BNZ Temporary Staff Programmer Data Technician

SNAP Administration Backups UAF-OIT Administration Backups BNZ Administration Backups IAB Programming Communication ARSC Backups BNZ IM – Current Server Structure Database Server Web Server File Share Sensor Network Administration GIS & Spatial Data Server

LTER Network Information System Ecological Data Users BNZ Information Management System Non-LTER Data Repositories Bonanza Creek LTER Data Data Flow Data Engines Human Resources

Data – Data Products Catalog, graphing and mapping interfaces Data co-operatives – Core Data 21% of BNZ Data Packages 31% of BNZ Data Entities – Data Quality Assurances Manual and programmatic review Core Environmental Climate Data Graduate Student Data Core Research Project Data Affiliated Project Data

Metadata – What are METADATA? Information about data Critical for data usage – Metadata Management Stored in relational database Discoverable via web services Exchanged via EML format – LTER Metadata Compliance Metadata Content Audit Metadata production improvements Personnel Coverage Geographic Temporal Research Area Publications Keywords DATA

Information Management Policies and Data Usage Policies Data Availability – Open metadata access – Core data available within 2 years Tracking – Site level data access is tracked via Webalizer software – Network level data access is tracked using the LTER Network Data Access Server (DAS)

Information Management Accomplishments Data Availability Increased data availability Improve Metadata Quality NIS Development and Participation Metadata training and tools for data submission Sensor Network Management & Streaming Data Implementation of VDV SensorNIS Improved web content, features and searchability Mapping and Spatial Data Accomplishments LTER Interactive Cartographic Almanac ArcGIS Server Upgrade Spatial Metadata Improvements GeoNIS

Information Management Goals Information Management Data & Metadata Website & Communication Education & Outreach Information Technology

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