Advancing the Sharing and Synthesis of Ecological Data: Guidelines for Data Sharing and Integration

Principal Investigator(s):

1. Develop general strategy for data collection, processing, and distribution that builds on scientist-data manager partnerships to produce data compilations useful for cross-site, long-term synthesis and modeling activities. 2. Develop specific strategy for NPP within the LTER community.

Products:

Other:

1) Second draft of paper on “Partnerships” based on outline provided by Benson/Olson from the ASM workshop

2) Draft of review paper of past successes and problems in synthesis work – standards, harmonization, QA/QC, etc. – focus on NPP and other LTER efforts

3) White paper on evaluation of how to get scientists to use standard methods and metadata etc. in anticipation of synthesis activities and archiving data

4) Draft of standards and harmonization working plan for NPP measurements to support LTER cross-site studies

Start Date: November 30, 2000

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