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Dan J. SMITH, Barbara J. BENSON, and David F. BALSIGER – Many sites conducting ecological research must routinely manage a diverse suite of datasets and make them accessible to researchers. This paper presents an approach to creating an ecological data query system that dynamically creates predefined dataset query interfaces for managed datasets. The query interfaces are created from stored dataset metadata and query creation metadata and include only those field selections and filtering options identified as relevant for the specified dataset.

Through the Looking Glass: What do we see, What have we learned, What can we share? Information Management at the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research Site Susan G. Stafford, Nicole E. Kaplan, and Christopher W. Bennett – This paper documents the development of a successful information management system at a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site that has a rich history of data collection and management. landscape.

Eda C. Meléndez-Colom and Karen S. Baker – A common goal of information management systems (IMS) is to share information among its users and originators. These systems are usually implemented by project managers and sponsors.

Donald L. Henshaw, Gody Spycher, and Suzanne M. Remillard – Many tasks and issues are encountered in the process of converting a scientific databank containing multiple legacy and long-term study databases into an integrated data production and distribution system.

Judith Bayard Cushing, Nalini Nadkarni Keri Healy, Erik Ordway, Lois Delcambre, and Dave Maier – Historically, ecologists have collected and stored data in individualist ways, making data sharing among collaborators and subsequent data mining difficult.

James W. Brunt, Peter McCartney, Karen Baker, and Susan G. Stafford – Emerging information technologies allow new exploration into tools for the management and use of information that solve problems for ecologists and create new and innovative lines of scientific inquiry. Collaborative, multi-disciplinary research programs to facilitate these new lines of inquiry have produced a need for scientific information systems that communicate data, information, and knowledge across spatial, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries.