Reports from information management workshops across the globe, a review of tools for importing structured text files into relational databases, and a comprehensive report on efforts to create a metadata standard for models and data sets from ecological simulation modeling efforts at Luquillo Experimental Forest.
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: Wade Sheldon (GCE), Linda Powell (FCE)
Table of Contents
| Featured Articles | ||
| About this Issue | 2 | |
| Moving Towards Network Identity | Karen Baker | 2 |
| Data Junction Integration Suite | Ken Ramsey | 2 |
| Database Techniques for Creating Maintenance-free Web Pages | Wade Sheldon | 3 |
| Special Report: Metadata Standards for Simulation Data/Models | Eda C. Meléndez-Colom | 5 |
| News Bits | ||
| 2001 LTER Information Managers Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin | Barbara Benson | 11 |
| News from the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity | Matthew Jones | 12 |
| International Information Management Outreach Activities | Kristin Vanderbilt | 14 |
| Metadiversity II Wotkshop | John Porter | 14 |
| Detecting Environmental Change: Science and Society | John Porter | 15 |
| Good Reads | ||
| Ecology through Time | Karen Baker | 16 |
| Biodiversity Datadiversity | Karen Baker | 16 |
| Frequently Asked Questions | ||
| How can I check to see if my HTML and CSS code is valid? | Wade Sheldon | 17 |
| Calendar | 17 |
