A Custom data management system, International LTER Information Management Workshop, The NASA Scientific Data Purchase Program, and Web-based data entry for dummies.
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: Brent Brock (Konza Prairie) and Wade Sheldon (Georgia Coastal Ecosystems)
Table of Contents
| Featured Articles | ||
| About this Issue | 1 | |
| A Standard for Creating Dynamic, Self-documenting Tabular Data Sets Using Matlab® | Wade Sheldon | 2 |
| International LTER Information Mangement Workshop | John Porter | 4 |
| News Bits | ||
| NASA Data Purchase Program Offers No-cost Acquisition of Remote Sensing Data | Greg Hoch | 5 |
| Simple Tools for Creating Web-based Data Entry | Brent L. Brock | 6 |
| Good Reads | ||
| Public Access and Use of Electronically Archived Data: Ethical Considerations | Brent L. Brock | 6 |
| Evolution of a Multisite Network Information System: The LTER Information Management Paradigm | Wade Sheldon | 7 |
| Frequently Asked Questions | ||
| Where can I get information about metadata and other issues in econinformatics? | 8 | |
| Calendar | 8 |
