New information management tools for Interactive mapping, Data management, XML conversion, Scientific workflows Data Harvesting. ClimDB and HydroDB go spatial with the formation of WatershedDB. News Bits. Good Reads.
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Table of Contents
| Feature Articles | ||
| About this Issue | 1 | |
| New Information Management System tools developed by the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) LTER Program | Linda Powell | 2 |
| Kepler: A System for Scientific Workflows | Dan Higgins | 6 |
| Introducing Watershed DB | Theresa Valentine | 11 |
| EML Harvesting I: Metacat Harvester Overview and Management | Duane Costa | 12 |
| News Bits | ||
| Forest Service Research Station Launches New Database | Jonathan Walsh | 13 |
| Ecological Metadata Language in Brazil and Costa Rica | 13 | |
| Good Reads | ||
| Good Reads: Infrastructuring for the Long-Term: Ecological Information Maagement | John Campbell | 14 |
| The Cognitive Style of Power Point | Karen Baker, Jerry Wanetik, Shaun Haber | 14 |
| Data at Work: Supporting Sharing in Science and Engineering | Karen Baker | 5 |
