Featured in this issue: Data management tools & resources, 2000 All-Scientists Meeting 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: Denise Steigerwald (MCM) and Ned Gardiner (CWT)
Table of Contents
| Featured Articles | ||
| Tools for Data Management – an XML-based Metadata Editor in Java | Rudolph Nottrott | 2 |
| Review of Dragon NatuallySpeaking Preferred Dictation for Data Entry | John P. Anderson | 3 |
| Providing Controllable WWW animations using JAVASCRIPT | John H. Porter | 6 |
| Plans for the 2000 All Scientists Meeting Workshops on Information Management | Barbara Benson | 7 |
| News Bits | ||
| Planning Workshops for the National Ecological Observatory Network | Barbara Benson | 10 |
| LTER Site Description Directory Update | Karen Baker | 10 |
| Bioinformatics Whitepaper | Peter McCartney | 11 |
| LTER Site Information System Elements Survey | Karen Baker | 11 |
| Central Arizona-Phoenix Biological Databases & Informatics (CAP BDI) Project | Peter McCartney | 12 |
| BioQuest Education Materials | Karen Baker | 12 |
| Virtual Tour Using Quicktime Authoring | Karen Baker | 12 |
| Good Reads | ||
| How To Manage Data Badly (Parts 1 & 2) | Darrell Blodgett | 13 |
| Frequently Asked Questions | ||
| What guidance is there for new LTER information managers? | Karen Baker | 14 |
| I have a large number of CD’s to label. What are my options? | Karen Baker | 15 |
| Where can I find information on how to copyright data, web material, or other documents? | Karen Baker | 15 |
| Calendar | 16 |
