Bonanza Creek LTER Information Management 2013. Information Management at BNZ Information Management Data & Metadata Website & Communication Education.

Bonanza Creek LTERInformation Management

2013

Information Management at BNZ

Information Management

Data & MetadataWebsite &

Communication

Education & OutreachInformation

Technology

BNZ Information Management Team

BNZ Staff

Information Manager

Field Technician

Site Manager

University of Alaska Fairbanks

LTER Network

US Forest Service

BNZ Leadership Team

Office of Information Technology

LTER Network

Office

Institute of Arctic

Biology

Arctic Region Supercomputin

g Center

Scenarios Network for Alaska & Arctic

PlanningPI &

Co-PI’s

Information Management

Committee

Research Aide

Other Research

Labs

IMC Working Groups

Network Information

System Developers

Senior Investigators

BNZ Temporary

Staff

Programmer

Data Technician

SNAPAdministration

BackupsUAF-OIT

AdministrationBackups

BNZAdministration

Backups

IABProgramming

CommunicationARSC

Backups

BNZ IM – Current Server Structure

• Database Server• Web Server• File Share

• Sensor Network Administration

• GIS & Spatial Data Server

LTER Network Information

System

Ecological Data Users

BNZInformation Management System

Non-LTER Data

Repositories

Bonanza Creek LTER Data Data Flow

Data Engines

Human Resources

Data– Data Products

• Catalog, graphing and mapping interfaces• Data co-operatives

– Core Data• 21% of BNZ Data Packages• 31% of BNZ Data Entities

– Data Quality Assurances• Manual and programmatic review

Core Environmental Climate Data

Graduate Student Data

Core Research Project Data

Affiliated Project Data

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200

400

BNZ Data Packages (433)

BNZ Data Entities (672)

Streaming Core Data

Annual Core Data

Other Data Entities

Metadata

– What are METADATA?• Information about data• Critical for data usage

– Metadata Management• Stored in relational database • Discoverable via web services• Exchanged via EML format

– LTER Metadata Compliance• Metadata Content Audit• Metadata production improvements

PersonnelCoverage• Geographic• Temporal

Research Area

Publications

Keywords

DATA

Information ManagementPolicies and Data Usage

• Policies

• Data Availability– Open metadata access– Core data available within 2 years

• Tracking– Site level data access is tracked via Webalizer software– Network level data access is tracked using the LTER

Network Data Access Server (DAS)

Information Management Accomplishments

• Data Availability• Increased data availability• Improve Metadata Quality• NIS Development and Participation• Metadata training and tools for data submission

• Sensor Network Management & Streaming Data• Implementation of VDV• SensorNIS

• Improved web content, features and searchability• Mapping and Spatial Data Accomplishments

• LTER Interactive Cartographic Almanac• ArcGIS Server Upgrade• Spatial Metadata Improvements• GeoNIS

Information Management Goals

Information Management

Data & MetadataWebsite &

Communication

Education & OutreachInformation

Technology

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