LTER Site Byte

LTER Site: Arctic LTER

Contributor: Jim Laundre (Aug 03, 2005)

Site Byte:

The Arctic LTER now has all of it legacy metadata converted to EML. With the help of Duane Costa, Mark Servilla and Inigo San Gil we have successfully converted the structured text files to level ~ 2.5 eml and harvested the files to metacat. One more revision will be done to add a complete title to the files. Our original metadata files did not have titles and the current eml files use the file names as titles. Moving forward we are developing an Excel entry sheet for entering metadata information. The metadata sheet can be copied into to the researcher’s excel workbooks and included with their data. An Excel VBA macro will be used to output an eml file.

The current field season is going well. Spring was early with ice cover on Toolik completely gone by June11th. July has been cool with some occasional snow. This year there will be power and internet connection during the winter months at Toolik Station. With year-round power we have made the current weather data available online, which can be viewed at http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/arc/ .

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