With at least one article in six of the seven categories, there’s plenty to read in this issue of the LTER’s Databits. This Featured Articles section contains an introductory technology guide, a review of this last year’s introduction of video-conferencing practices into the LTER IM community and more. Read two reviews of papers centered on data management practices in the Good Reads section. The News section contains an update and review of a current LTER IM project, and in Commentary read an overview of a course taught by the well-known Edward Tufte. Also, there are some new useful applications reviewed in the Good Tools and Programs sections. And don’t forget to take a look at the Calendar in this issue for a list of upcoming event dates. Enjoy!
Table of Contents
| Featured Articles | ||
| Getting Started with Web Services | Mason Kortz | 1 |
| Telling the Story behind the Photos | Beth Simmons, James Connors | 2 |
| Commentary | ||
| 14 Quotes on “Simplicity” by the Greatest Thinkers of All Time | 3 | |
| Whirlwind Tour of Digital Curation in the UK | Karen Baker | 4 |
| IM’s from the file and server tooms, and to the home office and beyond: Reporting our experiences with video-teleconferencing | Linda Powell, Kicole Kaplan, James Williams | 4 |
| News Bits | ||
| PROJECTDB – Planning and Development of a Collaborative Programming Effort | Jonathan Wash, Jason Downing | 5 |
| Good Tools and Programs | ||
| Creating Archival Documents | John Porter | 7 |
| MySQL Workbench: A Visual database design tool | James Conners | 7 |
| Mapping your mind with FreeMind | John Porter | 8 |
| Good Reads | ||
| Enabling long-term oceanographic research: Changing data practices, information management strategies and informatics | Nicole Kaplan | 9 |
| Disputed Definitions | Karen Baker | 9 |
| Digital Data Practices and the Long Term Ecological Research Program Growing Global | Anne Graham | 10 |
| Calendar | 10 |
