The spring issue of the newly-revived DataBits is out, thanks to a reinvigorated editorial team. The full issue is available as a pdf and individual stories will also make their way onto the Network website over the next few weeks.
Table of Contents
Spring 2018 DataBits
Featured Articles
- The International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) Global Network
- eLTER Information System – a European contribution to share scientific data from long term ecosystem research in Europe
USA Guest Section
- The red thread of long-term networked information management re-imagined for LTAR
USA Section
- A history of LTER Information Management Committee (IMC) Meetings: venues and participation
- Baltimore Ecosystem Study Metadata Management Facility
- Hello from the BLE LTER Information Manager
- Postgres, EML and R in a data management workflow
- The EML Assembly Line: A Metadata Generation Tool for Data Providers in the Ecological Sciences
- The Environmental Data Initiative – the first 1.5 Years Supporting LTER Information Managers
Commentaries
- A Message from IMEXEC: where we have been and where we are going
- A survival kit for the shadows of a natural disaster
- Duration of LTER Datasets
- Total Eclipse of the Sun at the Andrews Forest
- Visions of LTER IM: A Discussion at the 2017 Meeting
Good Reads
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
