Palmer LTER Site Information Management: Interfaces for Science and Education Interoperability

University Of California-San Diego Scripps Inst Of Oceanography, La Jolla CA

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Abstract

The project seeks to establish effective methods and infrastructure to transform an individual long-term ecological research (LTER) site data into a shared resource that would be accessible to a wide range of researchers. The scientific community needs to transform data management into information management practices that incorporate interoperability and metadata (data about the data) standards. The work with prototype tools will take place within the computational framework at San Diego, centered on existing metadata standards, such as the Morpho software, in collaboration with the national Center for Ecosystem Analysis and Synthesis (CEAS) at Santa Barbara. New versions of Morpho will enable the installation and testing of modules as an integrated component. Similarly, bibliographic software will be implemented using the Palmer (Antarctic) site bibliography as a test dataset. The third type of prototype will involve tools for organizational documentation, such as surveys and other communication vehicles.