Network Information System EML status of LTER sites Iñigo San GilAug 5th 2005 IM meeting, Montreal ‘05

EML status of LTER sites More than 90% of the LTER sites have implemented the EML standard. About 75% have made EML metadata available at centralized servers. These “Metacat” servers have harvested over 3,000 EML documents from LTER sites. “Harvested" here is loosely defined as: at least a few site 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. 2/3rds of the LTER sites are in; factoring out the two new LTER sites ~ 75% of the sites are harvested 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 LTER Network Information Systems

EML status of LTER sites Some more brief site notes: BES has a proven concept for the harvesting, only a few files are in SGS has a model to convert the metadata, and tried it on about ten files. ARC, PIE, NWT, CWT, LUQ, KBS, HBR have all legacy metadata harvested to a respectable richness level (Tier 2-3.5). MCM and NTL have some metadata harvested, and I would like to work with them to see where do they plan to go from here. The remaining 6 LTER sites; AND, CAP, GCE, SBC, SEV and VCR have harvested their metadata with all sorts of details (rich EML). All but SEV have all their legacy metadata in the Metacat servers, and SEV will follow soon. LTER Network Information Systems

Site Harvesting Since TIER level Harvested sets % EML/ % Harvested AND Jun ’ / 100 ARC Apr ’05 2 ½ / 100 BES Apr ’ / 5 CAP Aug ’ / 25 CWT May ’05 2 ½ / 97 GCE Apr ’ / 100 HBR Jul ’ / 100 KBS Aug ’ / 100 LNO Jan ’05 2 (a few 4) / 100 LUQ May ’05 3 ½ / 100 NTL Apr ’05 3 ½ 43 ? / ? NWT Jun ’05 2 ½ / 100 PIE Jul ’05 2 ½ / 100 SEV Jul ’05 3 ½ 46 ~20 / 20 SGS Jun ’ / 10 VCR Jul ’ / 100 EML status of LTER sites: Some numbers SBC* ’ / 100 *SBC harvests to NCEAS metacat directly. NTL has all but GIS legacy metadata compliant BES converted 100% of their metadata, still curating. LTER Network Information Systems

Site Harvesting Since TIER level % EML / % Harvested BNZ N/A / -- CDR N/A / -- FCE N/A 5 100? / 0 HFR N/A / 0 JRN N/A / -- KNZ N/A / 0 PAL N/A / -- MCR New Site CCE New Site BNZ has plans to start EML implementation on September 05. CDR is currently working on EML standard adoption FCE and KNZ are about to harvest. EML status of LTER sites: Some numbers LTER Network Information Systems

EML status of LTER sites: Tier levels Pie chart of LTER EML metadata documents completeness* What see here is an estimate of the richness of the standardized LTER metadata expressed as Tier levels as defined in the EML Best Practices document: the more yellow, the richer the metadata LTER Network Information Systems Tier levels *estimate values. Certain inconsistencies noted

Overview of EML implementation as of March 05 Review on 2005 Can use help No Clean EML PAL SGS AND CWT KNZ ARC BES BNZ CDR JRN LUQ MCM PIE HFR SEV NWT NTL CCE MCR Sites with rich EML AND VCR Harvesting KBS HBR CAP GCE SBC* FCE Evolution of EML status of LTER sites In these three diagrams you can see three criteria to categorize the sites needs for EML help: 1)Under review this year 2)Asked for help 3)None or not complete EML Diagrams based on EML survey conducted by Mark Servilla (LNO), Ken Ramsey(JRN) & Hap Garrit (PIE) and also the 2005 LNO survey. Mar 2005 * SBC harvests to NCEAS metacat directly, at the time we were unaware LTER Network Information Systems

Sites with rich EML AND Sites Harvesting x KBS HBR CAP GCE LUQ BES ARC PIE VCR CWT NTL SBC* FCE PAL SGS KNZ BNZ CDR JRN MCM HFR SEV NWT CCE MCR Evolution of EML status of LTER sites Jun 2005 Visited, work in progress Possible site visit New Site Contacted Outer Circle, see color code * SBC harvests to NCEAS metacat directly, at the time we were unaware LTER Network Information Systems

PAL KNZ BNZ CDR JRN HFR CCE MCR FCE x ARC Harvested Sites AND HBR NTL PIE KBS BES SGS VCR SBC NWT LNO CWT GCE CAP SEV MCM LUQ Evolution of EML status of LTER sites TIER 5 (EML richness level) TIER New Site Outer rim Aug 2005 LTER Network Information Systems

EML status of LTER sites remarkable achievements Early EML adopter, implementerGCE, CAP Volume of documentsARC Richest EMLAND, GCE Most patient IMsPIE, ARC Taxonomic NTL, NWT CreativeCAP Thorough and enthusiasticLUQ PromisingBES Best network teamLTER: all YOU!! LTER Network Information Systems