Featured in this issue: Following years of efforts in developing a Network Information System (NIS), LTER information managers report on two of its completed components: CLIMDB/HYDRODB and Network All-Site Bibliography. More recently, the LTER sites started the process of exporting their metadata databases into Ecological Metadata Language (EML), a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/). This task has proven itself to be a complex enterprise, whose ramifications cover a wide variety of data management activities and issues. documents with the LNO/KNB Metacat server and EcoGrid networks is presented.
Top Stories
Boxes and boxes of bees—a Sevilleta LTER dataset highlight
Site Exchange Fellows Announced
LTER Graduate Students and Postdocs Summer Mentoring Community of Practice
Collaboration with Shellfishers: an APEAL Seed Project
Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program
Request for Synthesis Proposals 2025
Site Exchange Opportunity
How to find soil-dwelling life in “the valley of the dead”
Strengthen Mentoring Skills
Ten years later: an LTER synthesis working group leads to discovery and accelerates four careers