| Feature Articles | | |
| The FCE LTER Website has a NEW look! | Linda Powell | 1 |
| Developing a Searchable Document and Imagery Archive for the GCE-LTER Web Site | Wade Sheldon | 5 |
| Improving the Basic Keyword Search for Datasets by Employing Text Mining Techniques and Indexing | Hung V. Nguyen, Corinna Gries, Hasan Davulcu | 9 |
| Developing and Using API’s in System Design | James Connors, Mason Cortz | 12 |
| FinLTSER Network: New addition to the global LTER network | Helena Karasti | 14 |
| Commentary | | |
| Using Xen and VMWare to Manage Virtual Machines: A New User’s Saga | John H. Porter | 18 |
| Making Sense of Collaboration Software | James W Brunt | 20 |
| Big Science and Local Meetings | Karen Baker, Sabine Grabner | 23 |
| Preservation Metadata: Another Chapter in the Metadata Story | Lynn Yarmey | 25 |
| Data Quality: Yet Another Chapter in the Metadata Story | Lynn Yarmey | 27 |
| Good Tools and Programs | | |
| Specifik, a Taxonomic Reference Tool to Support Synthesis of Vegetation Data | Ken Ramsey, Nicole Kaplan | 29 |
| Using Keyhole Markup Language for Geographical Data Browsers | John H. Porter | 31 |
| EML 2.1.0 to be Released Soon | Margaret O’Brien, Matthew Jones | 34 |
| A closer look at the NBII metadata clearinghouse | Inigo San Gil, Giri Palanisamy | 37 |
| LTER Data Catalog Upgrades to Metacat 1.8.0 | Duane Costa, Mark Servilla | 42 |
| Good Reads | | |
| Advancing ecological research with ontologies | Margaret O’Brien | 46 |
| Cyberinfastructure Primer | Karen Baker | 47 |
| Digital Data Practices and the Long Term Ecological Research Program | Inigo San Gil | 48 |
| News Bits | | |
| USFS Experimental Forest and Range Information Manager Meeting | Don Henshaw, Dave Rugg | 49 |
| Calendar | | |
| Calendar of Upcoming Informatics Conferences and Workshops | | 51 |
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