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2004 LTER Information Managers Meeting

   July 28-31, 2004 in Portland, Oregon
"Enabling the LTER Decade of <Synthesis/>"
 
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2004 IM Meeting Agenda

 

Date Time Meeting Topic (Speaker)

7/28/2004 6:00PM-7:00PM

Mixer and Dinner Buffet (buffet begins at 6:30PM)

  7:00PM-7:15PM

Introduction of guests (Benson)

  7:15PM-8:00PM

Presentations:
NISAC report (Henshaw) -- 20 minutes
CC meeting report (Henshaw) -- 5 minutes
LTER Network planning proposal (Benson) -- 10 minutes
Status of site EML implementation (Servilla) -- 10 minutes

  8:00PM-9:00PM

Group discussion: Achieving EML implementation across sites


7/29/2004 8:00AM-8:30AM

Introductions and meeting goals (Benson)

  8:30AM-9:15AM

Discussion: EML Best Practices (Sheldon)

  9:15AM-9:30AM

EML harvesting (Costa)

  9:30AM-9:45AM

Query interface design for LTER Catalog (Sheldon)

  9:45AM-10:00AM

Break

  10:00AM-12:00PM

Working Group Session I:
Group 1: Site IM Evaluation Criteria (Vanderbilt, Powell, Boose)
Group 2: Design of Query Interface to LTER Catalog (Sheldon, McCartney, Servilla)
Group 3: LNO Support for EML Implementation (Ramsey, Brunt)

 
  12:00PM-1:15PM

Lunch (and EML mentoring)

 
  1:15PM-3:15PM

Working Group Session 2
Group 1: Site IM Evaluation Criteria
Group 2: Design of Query Interface to LTER Catalog
Group 3: LNO Web Development Tools (White, Murillo)

  3:15PM-3:30PM

Break

  3:30PM-4:15PM

LNO report and discussion (Brunt)

  4:15PM-4:30PM

DataBank Project update (Cushing)

  4:30PM-4:45PM

"Big Picture" Issues at NSF (Stafford)

  4:45PM-5:00PM

Partnership activity planning (McCartney, Michener)

  evening

Group dinner (time and location to be announced)


7/30/2004 8:00AM-9:00AM

Working Group discussion (plenary)

  9:00AM-9:20AM

SEEK (Jones)

  9:20AM-9:45AM

Discussion: Ecogrid and the LTER NIS

  9:45AM-10:00AM

Break

  10:00AM-12:00PM

Working Group Session 3
Group 1: Site IM Evaluation Criteria
Group 2: Design of Query Interface to LTER Catalog
Group 3: Designing LTER Site Websites (Gries, Baker, White)

 
  12:00PM-1:15PM

Lunch (IMExec meets)

 
  1:15PM-1:45PM

Teleconference with Henry Gholz

  1:45PM-2:45PM

Business Meeting (closed to guests)
Election of IMExec members
Databits report and guidelines
Discussion of method to select NISAC members

  2:45PM-3:00PM

Break

  3:00PM-5:00PM

Working Group Session 4
Group 1: Site IM Evaluation Criteria
Group 2: Design of Query Interface to LTER Catalog
Group 3: Outreach/Partnerships Planning (Benson, Brunt, Michener)

  5:00PM-7:00PM

Dinner on your own

  7:00PM-9:00PM

Demos and presentations
SEEK (Jones) -- 30 minutes
NEON (Michener) -- 30 minutes
LTER (Baker) -- 15 minutes
LNO Web Request Tracker (Murillo/White) -- 15 minutes


7/31/2004 8:00AM-10:00AM

Working Group reports and discussion

  10:00AM-10:15AM

Break

  10:15AM-11:00AM

Discussion of NIS strategic plan

  11:00AM-11:30AM

Identification of action items

  11:30AM-12:00PM

Meeting wrap-up, Meeting report

  12:00PM

Meeting ends


 

   
  21-Sep-2004

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