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Information Management Committee 2013 • Welcome • Introductions – New faces • Thanks – Jason, Dan and Jamie – LNO Staff – IM Exec IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
Information Management Committee
2013
• Welcome• Introductions
– New faces
• Thanks– Jason, Dan and Jamie – LNO Staff– IM Exec
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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)
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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)
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
• Nominations from the floor?
Year in Review - Workshops
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
• Controlled vocabulary
• Workflows
• GCE Matlab Toolbox
• SensorNIS
• DEIMS
• LTERMapS
IM Year in Review
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
• 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
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
Presentations with Q & A
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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?
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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?
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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.?
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
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?
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
Report back
• Planning ahead• Data catalog • Best practices
IMC Annual Meeting 2013, BNZ
