LTER Site Byte
LTER Site: Plum Island Ecosystem (PIE)
Contributor: Hap Garritt (Jul 23, 2007)
Site Byte:
1. Annual Site Byte
The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER has been working diligently the last year at upgrading our EML metadata from Level 3 to Level 4+. We feel complete attribute level information is a critical component of metadata as most researchers want the actual research data sets. We are currently redoing existing Level 3 EML by reentering our MS Word metadata into a modified version of the ARC LTER Excel based metadata form developed by Jim Laundre. The Excel form is relatively straightforward with metadata in Sheet 1 of Excel and data in Sheet 2 thus allowing the metadata and research data to always “travel” together. With the help of a site visit by Inigo San Gil in February 2007, we are also making progress on generating EML compliant metadata for our ArcGIS data. Generation of EML compliant metadata dominates most IM activity; hopefully this effort will lessen as our legacy metadata reaches Level 4+ status.
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2. Planned IM Projects
1) Generate EML level 4+ metadata for all data sets.
a) all non spatial data
b) ArcGIS spatial data
c) IDRISI (Clark University) GIS spatial data
d) RIVERGIS (University of New Hampshire) GIS spatial data
2) Redesign PIE web site
a) Redesign skin template
b) Develop usable GIS web page
c) Develop usable Photo/image web page
3) Continue generation of discrete TRENDS datasets
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