LUQUILLO LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM 18th Annual Meeting LUQUILLO LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM Information Management Report January 14, 2007, EVFS BY: Eda C. Meléndez-Colom

Information Management Report Overview Activities –Network –Data Management –Inreach –Outreach 2007 Goals

Information Management Report Activities: Network NIS databases –All-Site Bibliography –Climdb Climdb –TRENDS (LUQ’s and NIS’) –DTOC IM Committee Special Projects –Databits Articles (Fall 2006) Fall 2006Fall 2006 –Web Standards Document IMEXEC Member ASM Poster

Information Management Report Activities: Data Management LUQ Online datasets –Database ready –Prepare for Analysis New datasets available online –Published: 12 8 Released (data online) 4 not released (metadata only online) –Total in IMS: ongoing 81 completed … online In IMS only (not released) Ongoing (Long-Term) 295 completed756

Information Management Report Activities: Data Management (continues) Data Management Protocols –Written and online: fault.html#IMSProtocols fault.html#IMSProtocols –Implementation of data entry and QC procedures Special Databases web publication –End Notes LUQ LTER PubsSelf-Trainning –Web design –Web Programming: scripts

Information Management Report Activities: Inreach Implementation of plone sites –CTE –LUQ Pubs’ PDFs “Gotitas del Saber” ndex.html ndex.html ndex.html Re-Implementation of LUQ Web site’s “What’s New”

Information Management Report Activities: Outreach Schoolyard Activities –Visit to all 3 schools –Web Site design: –pre-Internship Workshop DataEntry Sheets and Data worksheets design and preparation –Internship Hands-On workshop to enter data Data summary and charts design Presentation –Post-Internship Internship Web site design and publication: ternship/InternshipMain.html ternship/InternshipMain.html ITES non-LTER –Excel template design

Information Management Report 2007 Goals: Network Related LUQ’s Metadata EML level 5 NIS databases: –SiteDB Info update –All-Sites Bibliography –ClimDB : others? –Harvested USGS streamflow data –TRENDS LTER IM’s GIS special committee –Design and implement survey

Information Management Report 2007 Goals: Inreach Related Web site’s Capabilities (New design? More services?) –Searcheable databases online (by Owner’s request) –Web forms: Metadata, Requests More Plone sites: –Synthesis Book (Waide’s request) –Other LT Data Bases uploads (Silver’s request) Publish Existing IM Procedures Protocol

Information Management Report 2007 Goals: Outreach Related Finish LUQ LTER Schoolyard’s online personnel Directory Complete metadata for Schoolyard’s data Design IM Project with ILTER sites

Information Management Report Useful Information Links: –LTERDB - Integrated LTER Database project (NIS): cts/informatics/ LUQ’s IM Page: g/index.html g/index.html –LUQ’s Personnel Directory (Local):

Information Management Report Useful Information: Data entry and QC procedures √√ of data entered –At IM –Report generation cicle for Investigator Data Manipulation –Conversion of spreadsheet to a database SQL friendly data set Standarization: date format, column labels, species codes, site names Graphs generation –Merging datasets for synthesis Data Archival and/or publication

Information Management Report Useful Information Thank you! Questions and suggestions :