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LTER Site Byte
LTER Site: Sevilleta LTER
Contributor: Kristin Vanderbilt (Oct 30, 2006)
Site Byte:
The Sevilleta IM Team continues to support site and network level science by seeking ways to improve data discovery and availability.
Sevilleta scientists have two studies in which wireless sensor networks play a significant role. Data is being collected in large volumes, and the challenge is to import the data from the Campbell datalogger into our MySQL database, write QA/QC scripts, and graph the data in near real-time. We are presently exploring off-the-shelf software and custom software solutions using SAS for these purposes. Sevilleta LTER graduate student Etsuko Nonaka is working with two scientists at Los Alamos National Labs to develop QA/QC methods for the Sevilleta sensor data.
Sevilleta continues to translate legacy semi-structured metadata into EML using a variety of methods including Morpho and a custom script developed by Inigo San Gil of LNO. We have Level 5 EML for about 50% of Sevilleta legacy data.
Wikis have become valuable parts of the Sevilleta IMS. Sevilleta submitted a successful renewal proposal in 2006, and the preparation of the proposal made use of a wiki for sharing document revisions. A wiki is also being maintained by the permanent four person field crew and the IM, describing all steps needed to collect, manage, and archive the long-term data sets collected by the field crew. A password-protected System Administration wiki has been implemented to document mission-critical sys admin tasks.
IM Kristin Vanderbilt has been active on the US ILTER Committee. She gave two presentations at the EAP-ILTER meeting in Kyoto, Japan in February about information management training. At the ILTER Coordinating Committee meeting in Namibia in August she became Chair of the ILTER Information Management Committee.
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