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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Request for Comments (RFC) - 6/28/2017<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Decommissioning LTER SiteDB<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">To: LTER Exec group, Site Information Managers<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">From: Environmental Data Initiative (EDI), LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Background<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">SiteDB is a network database whose original purpose was to house standardized information about LTER member sites. SiteDB covers the who is who at sites, web addresses, research goals, and some physical site parameters (temperature, precipitation

 etc.), in support of communication and research. Updating of information has been difficult and the current SiteDB holdings are known to be out of date, most of the information is not accessible and the public display of some of the information (<a href="https://lternet.edu/lter-sites"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://lternet.edu/lter-sites</span></a>)

 is maintained manually by NCO personnel. <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">A recent request for updates from Marty Downs has addressed the part of SiteDB information needed for effective communication with sites (i.e., the who is who), and the display of a site profile (https://lternet.edu/lter-sites).<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Recommendations<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">$B!|(B<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    

</span></span><![endif]>EDI will archive SiteDB contents as two data sets, with EML metadata to ensure that the contents are preserved and accessible:

<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   

</span></span><![endif]>The physical site parameters may actually be useful as background information for synthesis work, if accessible as a dataset<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   

</span></span><![endif]>The description of site research goals in SiteDB represents a snapshot in time and may be useful to document research evolution.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">$B!|(B<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    

</span></span><![endif]>LTER Site public-facing profiles will be housed in a simple web-based system that is easily updated by NCO in cooperation with LTER site personnel. At present, this is intended to include the fields represented on the

<a href="https://lternet.edu/lter-sites"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://lternet.edu/lter-sites</span></a> profiles, plus the following: site coordinates; current grant (number and link), partner organizations (names and links) and site social media profiles.

<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RFC Process<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Please send comments to: Corinna Gries (<a href="mailto:cgries@wisc.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">cgries@wisc.edu</span></a>) and Marty Downs (<a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</span></a>)

 or discuss on original recipient list. <o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">For more information, contact EDI at <a href="mailto:info@environmentaldatainitiative.org">

<span style="color:#1155CC">info@environmentaldatainitiative.org</span></a>, or LTER NCO at

<a href="mailto:nco@lternet.edu"><span style="color:#1155CC">nco@lternet.edu</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Please send comments by COB on July 14th, 2017. If we don$B!G(Bt hear major objections we will proceed with the following implementation:<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Planned implementation<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:31.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">$B!|(B<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    

</span></span><![endif]>NCO: Decommission the management interface<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:31.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">$B!|(B<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    

</span></span><![endif]>NCO: Export SiteDB contents as CSV tables.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:31.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">$B!|(B<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    

</span></span><![endif]>EDI: Build EML metadata for exported tables. Archive in the LTER repository<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:31.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">

<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">$B!|(B<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    

</span></span><![endif]>NCO: Determine the set of fields required for public-facing LTER Site profiles. Develop a system and share a system for maintenance.

<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:31.5pt"><i><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></u></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your input as we move to update LTER information<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">NCO and EDI teams<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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