Information Management Committee
2013
• Welcome• Introductions
– New faces
• Thanks– Jason, Dan and Jamie – LNO Staff– IM Exec
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Agenda Review• Wednesday
• Plenary Reports and Discussion• Breakout Discussions - PASTA• Posters and demos
• Thursday• Business Meeting• NSF discussion• Ad hoc Working Group meetings• Field trip
• Friday • Ad hoc Working Group meetings (AM)
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Announcements
• Recognizing service – Thank you!o Dan Bahauddin (IMExec), Emery Boose (EB Rep),
Margaret O’Brien (Co-Chair), Nicole Kaplan (SGS), Linda Powell (NISAC)
• Databitso Fall 2012 editors: Adam Skibbe (KNZ), Aaron
Stephenson (NTL)o Spring 2013 editors: Aaron Stephenson (NTL),
Hope Humphries (NWT)o Fall 2013 editors: Hope Humpries (NWT), John
Porter (VCR)
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Nominations
• Nominations – IMEXEC (2 positions)o Dan Bahauddino James Conners
• Nominations – NISAC (1 position)o Mary Martin
• Nominations – EB rep (1 position)o Margaret O’Brieno Wade Sheldon
• Nominations – IMC co-chair (1 position)o Philip Tarrant
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• Nominations from the floor?
Year in Review - Workshops
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• Controlled vocabulary
• Workflows
• GCE Matlab Toolbox
• SensorNIS
• DEIMS
• LTERMapS
IM Year in Review
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• PASTA implemented (http://portal.lternet.edu/)• ARRA funding
• DEIMS
• GCE Matlab Toolbox
• EML Consulting
• Network personnel database nearing completion• Successful Coordinated Supplement Proposals• Watercooler VTCs (thanks, James W!)• Databits• Many workshops …
Year in Review
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Presentations with Q & A
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Presentations up to 15 min, followed by discussion
DEIMS (Kristin Vanderbilt)Matlab Toolbox (Wade Sheldon)
SensorNIS and BP (Don Henshaw)
Controlled vocabulary (John Porter)PASTA/DataONE (Mark Servilla)
Metrics & Data Package Reporting
Philip Tarrant
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Afternoon Breakouts
Outstanding PASTA issues
•Topic 1 - planning ahead:• How will PASTA be used by broader community, and how is this communicated?
• What web service clients that would we like to see developed for the benefit all sites?
• What is the relationship between PASTA and existing databases and how might we set priorities for integration?
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Afternoon Breakouts
Outstanding PASTA issues
•Topic 2 - Portal/catalog:• What are the outstanding or unresolved issues with the regard to the fact PASTA will be the default back-end to a new data catalog, but currently does not support some uses supported by the the LTER metacat?
• Are there are any Data Policy changes needed?
•How do we want PASTA to address the Data Access recommendations from the Science Council?
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Afternoon Breakouts
Outstanding PASTA issues
•Topic 3 - Best practices for PASTA• How should we implement the establishment of new checks to the production system?
•What guidelines need to be formalized for package evaluation, publication, etc.?
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Afternoon Breakouts
Outstanding PASTA issues
What products does the IMC need to produce to make the most of PASTA and strategically guide its use and growth in the next three years?
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Report back
• Planning ahead• Data catalog • Best practices
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