LTER Site Byte

LTER Site: Hubbard Brook LTER

Contributor: John Campbell (Jul 29, 2005)

Site Byte:

We have made significant progress with our EML implementation. We now have 115 EML documents harvested into the metacat. All of our non-geospatial datasets were converted to EML last year, and this year we converted all of our spatial metatadata to EML. We used the Esri2Eml stylesheet that was developed at CAP and are grateful for help from Corinna Gries. A stylesheet was developed for displaying metadata for non-geospatial data and we will incorporate this into our web page shortly (see http://www.hubbardbrook.org/eml/generate_html_from_eml.php). We also plan to develop a separate stylesheet for displaying metadata for spatial datasets.

We are in the process of completely redesigning our web page and have made considerable progress on this front. A major part of this effort involves redesigning the way data are queried and downloaded. We have moved all our data into a MySQL database and will query it with php applications (see example at: http://www.hubbardbrook.org/search_portal_db.php). We also linked the EML based metadata to the new LTER network data policy and will register users to track data downloads see (http://www.hubbardbrook.org/data_policy.php?target=801d8c3700665679e56756c2b8ab84081b).

During the last year we imported our site bibliography into Endnote to remain consistent with the LTER network office. The bibliography contains nearly 2000 publications that have been published since the inception of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study. We will continue to develop the bibliography and plan to modify the query interface on our web page.

In the last year, there has been considerable interest in implementing wireless technology and real-time data at Hubbard Brook. Past efforts have been hampered by a number of complications including mountainous terrain, remote location, dense forest cover, and a lack of electricity. We are currently exploring practical and cost efficient ways to overcome these challenges and are in the proposal writing phase.

The Hubbard Brook information management team consists of Ellen Denny, Netta Kies, Phyllis Likens and John Campbell. Ellen works at the USDA Forest Service in Durham and helps maintain the Hubbard Brook web site and has been working on the redesign. Netta Kies is a summer employee at the Forest Service and will return to Wesleyan University for her senior year in the fall. Netta has been developing the web database and associated php applications. Phyllis Likens is an employee of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. Phyllis compiles the Hubbard Brook publication list, maintains the document archives, and helps with the personnel database and curriculum vitas. John Campbell continues in his role as Information Manager for the Hubbard Brook LTER working on a variety of tasks

Web design by Wade Sheldon, Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER