Ecological Metadata Language (EML): Augmenting Research Tools and Capabilities, a quick introduction to Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), a review of software tools for working with Extensible Markup Language (XML), an article on metadata management and what role Morpho and Metacat could play in an overall information management strategy at a LTER site, a review of several Email client applications, and an article about using the LTER LDAP Server.
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: [Linda Powell (FCE), Kristin Vanderbilt (SEV)
Table of Contents
| Feature Articles | ||
| About this Issue | 2 | |
| EML: Augmenting Research Tools and Capabilities | John Porter | 2 |
| A Quick Introduction to XSLT | Christopher Jones | 4 |
| Software Tool for Working With XML | Peter McCartney | 8 |
| Metadata Management: To Morpho or Not to Morpho, that is the question | David Blankman | 11 |
| My Search for the Perfect Windows Email Client | James Brunt | 13 |
| Using the LTER LDAP Server | James Brunt | 14 |
| News Bits | ||
| 2002 LTER Annual IMEXEC Winter Meeting at the San Diego Supercomputer Center | Emery Boose | 17 |
| News from the March 2002 IMEXEC Conference Call | Emery Boose | 19 |
| LTER Cross-Site Activity: Documentation of the presence and abundance of non-indigenous species | Mariah Carbone | 20 |
| Greg Shore hired as LTER Network Office Computer System Administrator | Linda Powell | 22 |
| Good Reads | ||
| Managing Scientific Metadata | Karen Baker | 22 |
| Is it Time to Bury the Ecosystem Concept? | Maria Vernet, Karen Baker | 23 |
| Frequently Asked Questions | ||
| Where can I find information about IT terminology and techniques on the web? | Wade Sheldon | 24 |
| What Are Some of the Current Computing Acronyms Used by the LTER Information Managers? | Linda Powell | 25 |
| Calendar | 28 |
