<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_43995">Yes. I believe that NIMO can make us stronger. I still insist we should continue progressing without loosing our identity and diluting ourselves... unless NSF wants us to do that, in which case I would wait for their explicit directives to do so...</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44865"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44868" dir="ltr">I am no saying that we should leave IMEXEC intact. It is definitively
time to change! What I am saying is that we should not mix the concept
of a Data Center with the concept of the network of the IM and we should
make sure to conserve the identity of the IMC. That will not happen in a
Center of scientists and IMs! </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44732"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44730">We, IMs are a very heterogeneous group of people and our main function
is to facilitate research for our scientific community...The fact that
LTER recognized since its inception the need of a position in site to take care of "data management" tasks and that a network of information managers,
i.e. the IMC, eventually evolved from this group says something. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44771" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44770" dir="ltr">But is this a budgetary problem?...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44686"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44413" dir="ltr">Maybe
Saran (NSF?) and some of us are thinking about centralizing Information Management of the
LTER. Saran told the scientific community at the ASM, in front of the
IMs, that they should be thinking if they would like to have the 25 of
us centralized and giving services to all sites.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44526"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44528">On the other hand, in some sites, Information
Management takes quite a chunk of the site's budget. Centralization
would take care of that! Is this what we are really dealing with here?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44019"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44021">...Do you know how difficult it was for me at the beginning I joined this group? Not exactly because I did not know anybody but because I had to learn how to think in English in order for me to understand what was going on (First year at Toronto, I was exhausted after the first 1/2 hour and could not think anymore!). It took me about 6 years to start thinking in English and not hearing and translating. Add to that that it was a completely different culture I was joining...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44115"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44140">Why do I say this? Because I succeeded to become one of us by learning to become an IM without loosing my ethnic identity. The minute I tried to act as an American, I started loosing my capacity to give something to this group. After a while, I was able to reconcile both; John Porter described me as a person with two hearts; Barbra Benson said I took advantage of being "different" to have a license to say whatever I wanted to say...and she was right <img title-off="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_46453" data-id="b4dae2a5-16ea-29a6-9b46-7ce7e7dd27c0" src="https://s.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo6.gif" alt="*:"> blushing" title="*:"> blushing" class="yahoo-ignore-inline-image">. It was by accepting the differences that I became a proud IM and felt part of the group.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44182"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_45193">Let us not try to become scientists! Anyway some of us are (the beauty of our group!). Let's be the IMC collaborating with the Scientists!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_45242" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_46465" dir="ltr">EDA<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_43942"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_43935"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_43934" class="signature">Eda C. Melendez Colom
Information Manager
LTER Program
University of Puerto Rico
Tel. (787) 764-0000 (1-4943)
Fax (787) 772 -1481</div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44023" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44028" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44027" style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44026" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44025" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454452375668_44024" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Philip Tarrant <philip.tarrant@asu.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Eda C. Melendez-Colom <edacorreo@yahoo.com>; Site IMs <im-rep@lternet.edu> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "stevan.earl@asu.edu" <stevan.earl@asu.edu>; "Remillard, Suzanne" <suzanne.remillard@oregonstate.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 2, 2016 6:25 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [LTER-im-rep] Fw: imexec<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4162900785"><style>#yiv4162900785 #yiv4162900785 --
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Hi Eda,</span></div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">I think you make an excellent point that part of this process is a redefining of the historical IMC role. We will have to be careful to ensure that we maintain
the identity of the broader IMC within the combined activities of the IMC and the NIMO.
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">However, we should also remember that the NIMO is an IM entity in itself, with IM management input through IM representation on the Operations Committee, IM Project
Managers and an IM Pi. This has the potential to make us stronger (and more influential!) as a community rather than weaker. The key will be to do that in a way that allows everyone to feel they are part of the initiative and not just a passive observer.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Eda’s comments and others received by e-mail and during the VTCs have been very helpful. Please keep the dialog going as we continue planning the transition.
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Best regards,</span></div>
<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Philip Tarrant</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br clear="none">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Director, Informatics and Technology | Senior Sustainability Scientist</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br clear="none">
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability | Arizona State University</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br clear="none">
</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Sustainable data - use, preserve, re-use </span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785yqt3955927807" id="yiv4162900785yqt95979"><div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> im-rep [mailto:im-rep-bounces@lists.lternet.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eda C. Melendez-Colom<br clear="none">
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<b>To:</b> Site IMs <im-rep@lternet.edu><br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> [LTER-im-rep] Fw: imexec</span></div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal">Obviously the majority in this call think we should merge with the scientists community...I will cope, I have always done that. Definitely we are re-defining one of the main characteristics of the LTER.</div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal">So let's call things by what they really are to make this discussion clearer:. We are not re-defining LNO and creating NIMO; we are really redefining the IMC hence thé LTER.</div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal">M'y original message:</div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal">I am listening on the phone. Although I agree with Corinna on moving on, there are certain things that should be preserved, at least while we transition to the next stage.</div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal">Also, let's think what are the purpose of the Data Center...it is to facilitate collaboration with scientists. It is not to organize the IMC as a group.</div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal">You mix thise two and the Data Center will get </div>
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<div class="yiv4162900785MsoNormal">We need to separate those two functions in order to make a good work with the D C!</div>
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