Featured in this issue are two articles about wireless technology, a description of a minimalist approach to creating dynamic web pages to display database content, and a discussion about the implementation of ArcIMS by a seasoned ArcIMS user. Other articles describe the innovative GCE Matlab Toolbox and the future of the All-Site Bibliography.
DataBits continues as a semi-annual electronic publication of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. It is designed to provide a timely, online resource for research information managers and to incorporate rotating co-editorship. Availability is through web browsing as well as hardcopy output. LTER mail list IMplus will receive DataBits publication notification. Others may subscribe by sending email to majordomo@lternet.edu with two lines “subscribe databits” and “end” as the message body. To communicate suggestions, articles, and/or interest in co-editing, send email to databits-ed@lternet.edu.
—– Co-editors: Kristin Vanderbilt (SEV), Tim Bergsma (KBS)
Table of Contents
| Feature Articles | ||
| About this Issue | 1 | |
| Design and Rationale for a Minimalist Dynamic Datasite | Tim Bergsma | 2 |
| LTER All-Site Bibliography 2002-Update | James W. Brunt and Troy Maddux | 3 |
| GCE Data Toolbox for Matlab®—Platform-independent tools for metadata-driven semantic data processing and analysis | Wade Sheldon | 6 |
| ArcIMS 4.0 – an “Out-of-the-Box” Internet Mapping Solution? | Brent Brock | 8 |
| Wild about Wireless at the VCR LTER | Tom Williams, John Porter, Phil Smith | 10 |
| What Every Information Manager Should Know About Wireless | John Porter | 12 |
| News Bits | ||
| SCI2002: Ecoinformatics Challenges at International Conference | Karen Baker | 13 |
| ELTOSA Meeting and Informatics Workshop | Kristin Vanderbilt | 14 |
| BES Website Regarded as Curriculum | Johnathan Walsh | 14 |
| Good Reads | ||
| Ecological Vignettes | Karen Baker | 14 |
| A History of the Ecosystem Concept in Ecology | Karen Baker | 15 |
| Calendar | 15 |
