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2005 LTER Information Managers Meeting

 

  August 4-7, 2005 in Montréal, Canada
"Enabling the LTER Decade of <Synthesis/>"
 
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(revised 28-Jul-2005)

Meeting Agenda

Date Time Meeting Topic (Speaker)
Aug 04 (Thu) 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Mixer and Dinner Buffet (Buffet starts at 6:30PM)

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Introductions (Benson)

Presentations (10 min each)

Slide presentations by two new LTER sites:
California Coastal Ecosystem (Jerry Wanetick, Lynn Yarmey)
Moorea Coral Reef (Margaret O'Brien)
Demo of Query interface to Metacat (Servilla)
Demo of Unit Dictionary (Baker, Servilla)
Demo IM Mentoring Site (White)

8:00PM - 9:00PM

Open group discussion:

1) evaluation criteria in the context of this year’s site reviews (Boose)

2) innovations at the sites

Aug 05 (Fri) 8:00AM - 8:15AM

Introductions and meeting goals (Benson)

8:15AM - 8:20AM

Distributions of cyberinfrastructure needs assessment survey (Vande Castle)

8:20AM - 8:50AM

NIS strategic plan (Brunt)

8:50AM - 9:05AM

Status EML Implementation and Harvesting (San Gil)

9:05AM - 9:30AM

Attribute Ontologies and Trends Project (McCartney)

9:30AM - 9:45AM

Report: Website Design Groups (Kaplan)

9:45AM - 10:00AM

Break

10:00AM - 12:00AM

Working Group Session:

Group 1: Web Access to Information: SiteDB (Kaplan, Baker, Melendez-Colom, Laundre, Gries)

Group 2: Design of Query Interface to LTER Catalog: Controlled Vocabularies (Porter, Walsh)

Group 3: Exploring Ontologies: Background (McCartney)

12:00PM - 1:15PM

Lunch (IMExec meets)

1:15PM - 3:15PM

Working Group Session:

Group 4: Web Site Design Recommendations (Kaplan, Baker, Melendez-Colom, Laundre, Gries)

Group 5: Unit Dictionary (Baker, Servilla, Yarmey, Powell, O'Brien, Sheldon, Haber, Millerand, San Gil)

Group 6: Attribute Ontologies (McCartney)

3:15PM - 3:30PM

Break

3:30PM - 4:00PM

Teleconference with Henry Gholz and Liz Blood

4:00PM - 4:15PM

LNO report on intersite databases (Brunt)

4:15PM - 5:00PM

LTER Network Planning Grant: Cyberinfrastucture (Benson, McCartney)

5:00PM - 5:30PM

Break (cash bar)

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Working Group Session:

Group 7: Community Process and Standards Implementation (Baker, Benson, Jones, Millerand)

Aug 06 (Sat) 8:00AM - 9:45AM

Plenary: Working Group discussion (Powell, moderator)

9:45AM - 10:00AM

Break

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Working Group Session:

Group 8:  Joint: Ontology, Unit Dictionary, Controlled Vocabulary Groups (Baker, Servilla, McCartney, Porter, Powell, Yarmey)

Group 9: All Scientist Meeting 2006 Planning (Ramsey, Kaplan)

12:00PM - 1:15PM

Lunch (IMExec meets)

1:15PM - 2:15PM

Business Meeting (closed)

Election of IMExec members

Databits report and guidelines

Discussion of method to select NISAC members

2:15PM - 2:45PM

NEON presentation (Michener)

2:45PM - 3:00PM

Break

3:00PM - 3:30PM

Discussion: implementation of the new data access/data use policy

3:30PM - 5:00PM

Reports and Discussion (presentations each no more than 15 minutes to leave time for discussion)

LTER Grid Prototype (Servilla)

Sensor Network Grant: Automation, Scaling (Benson)

SEEK (Jones)

Aug 07 (Sun) 8:00AM - 10:00AM

Plenary: Working Group reports and discussion (Sheldon, moderator)

10:00AM - 10:15AM

Break

10:15AM - 11:00AM

Discussion of NIS strategic plan and long range planning (Henshaw)

11:00AM - 11:30AM

Identification of action items (Benson)

11:30AM - 12:00AM

Meeting wrap-up (Benson)

Meeting report

 

   
  29-Jul-2005

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