An activity designed to disseminate system existing knowledge to LTER Scientists and Students.
Our multi-institutional, multi-site group mission is to enable data integration and information synthesis from the foundations of the ecological community, at the minimal organizational level (site, field station), with scalability options (up to national clearinghouse)
The course will cover aspects of the entire data life cycle. Best practices will be introduced including metadata content, data cleaning, database design, management of large data volumes and quality control. Best choices of technologies for various tasks will be discussed and supplemented with hands on exercises in using workflow engines, spreadsheets vs. databases, various… Read more »
An effort to overhaul local management informatics systems with robust content management solutions, the proposed workshop will be an opportunity to further advance towards synthesis products based on the conceptual PASTA framework, where the information moves from heterogeneous, diverse forms to a unified, usable framework, with the advantage of the lower cost associated with this… Read more »
