LTER Site Byte
LTER Site: Other Site (Guest Participant)
Contributor: Sheng-Shan Lu, Cau-CHin Lin, Meei-Ru Jeng (Jul 28, 2007)
Site Byte:
1. Annual Site Byte
Taiwan Ecological Research Network (TERN) IM team at Taiwan Forestry Research Institute has been benefited many ways by work with US LTER information managers since 2004 (see article ‘ LTER intensifies IM interactions with Taiwan’, in The LTER Network News Vol. 20 No. 1 p.18-19, Spring 2007). A three-tier framework for an ecological information system based on EML was adopted by this team in 2006. The system aids with editing, storing, and using documents in the multiple languages of Asian cultures that comprise the East-Asia Pacific Regional Network (EAPRN-ILTER). The IM team has held over 20 workshops in the past two years to teach researchers how to use Morpho and create their own EML documents, mainly in domestic but also promote to the EAPRN-ILTER. Just two weeks ago, EAPRN-ILTER IM Committee Member Meeting and Ecological Information Management Workshop held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from 9-14 July, 2007. We highly appreciated John Porter, Don Henshaw and Kristin Vanderbilt came to Taiwan assistance on this workshop. In addition, the Third ILTER Workshop on the Ecological Information Management in the East Asia-Pacific Region will be held in Seoul, Korea during 16-21 October 2007 with the help from TERN, US LTER again. By the way, we also expending the relationship to Australia LTER this March, mainly focus on the ecological information management system issue. Further cooperation between Australia and Taiwan on IM issue will carry on. However, a strategy for encouraging the data submission or improving data quality still needs to develop in this regional network.
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2. Planned IM Projects
a. Review all data and metadata, improving the metadata content, and improving EML by Q/A&Q/C
b. Promote scientific collaboration through data sharing policy, all the ecological or environmental monitoring data can be shared to all academic institutions through Cyberinfrastructure deployment
c. Create Open GIS web services using Google Earth/Google Map to provide location of biological collection at the TFRI herbarium and insect collection
d. Applications of Kepler workflow system to provide the opportunity to researchers willing to create their own EML documents
e. Third ILTER Workshop on the Ecological Information Management in the East Asia-Pacific Region in Korea October 2007
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