<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear IM's-</div><div><br></div><div>We will review and discuss the new LTER Network website at the IM watercooler on Monday. There will be some time for general feedback, but we'll also need to review the back-end functions that are most relevant to information managers. To help me track general feedback about the site, I've put together a short survey, here:</div><div><br></div><div><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/bUqvG9DabjJ9Tdqe2">https://goo.gl/forms/bUqvG9DabjJ9Tdqe2</a></font></b><br></div><div><br></div><div>You'll find the site access information in the intro to the survey. We've worked hard to find a balance between making the site appealing and interesting to visitors from outside the Network, while maintaining the functions that are most useful for those in the Network.</div><div><br></div><div>While we may not be able to address all your concerns immediately, the beauty of a web site is that is can be constantly updated and improved. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Marty</div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Remillard, Suzanne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suzanne.remillard@oregonstate.edu" target="_blank">suzanne.remillard@oregonstate.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Dear IM’s,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Date: Monday, January 8<sup>th</sup> at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Topic: New LTER Network Website hosted by NCO<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Connection: <span style="color:black"><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058932071" target="_blank">https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/<wbr>8058932071</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Just a friendly reminder about our monthly Virtual Water Cooler (VWC) session this Monday, January 8<sup>th</sup> at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST. Marty Downs recently sent an email to our community updating us on the LTER Network web site transition
and network personnel database (12/23/2017; see message below). She is eager to get thoughts and feedback regarding the new website. We will use this VWC session to discuss the new site with particular attention to those features that we, as information
managers, interact with the most. (Although any feedback is welcome).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">The December VWC had low attendance, but sounds like a good conversation(<a href="http://im.lternet.edu/vwc-dec2017" target="_blank">http://im.<wbr>lternet.edu/vwc-dec2017</a>). For February’s VWC, we would like to follow up on some of those
ideas and discuss strategic planning for the IMC now that EDI and NCO are both well underway and actually beginning to think about their renewal proposals.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Please make sure you have these dates and times in your calendar so that you may participate.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">See you around the water cooler!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Suzanne<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> im [mailto:<a href="mailto:im-bounces@lists.lternet.edu" target="_blank">im-bounces@lists.<wbr>lternet.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Marty Downs<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 23, 2017 12:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:im@lternet.edu" target="_blank">im@lternet.edu</a>; EDI <<a href="mailto:info@environmentaldatainitiative.org" target="_blank">info@<wbr>environmentaldatainitiative.<wbr>org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nick Outin <<a href="mailto:outin@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">outin@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [LTER-im] Web site transitions and network personnel database<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Greetings from the NCO, where we have been hard at work on a new LTER Network website. I apologize for some failure to communicate on this -- I kept thinking we were within days of being able to share a prototype and then some new issue
would come up. I know you are all familiar with how that can go on any new website -- and this one has some particular challenges.<span style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">The LTER PersonnelDB, like the SiteDB, involved several complex backend connections to the Drupal web site and to the mailing lists. When the data and communications offices were separated, it became necessary to simplify this architecture.
We have tried to do so in a way that maintains important communications and information functions.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">To keep in-sync with EDI, we are maintaining the LDAP (so your existing passwords will continue to work), but are adding a few fields (LTER site(s), LTER role(s) and Committee membership(s)) that are critical to Network functioning. We
are also adding a field for an individual's ORCID. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Ultimately, we may transition to authentication via ORCID, but for now, it serves to consolidate much of the information about what organisms and ecosystems an investigator studied that had been part of PersonnelDB. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">When the transition to the new WordPress site is complete, the LDAP will connect directly to the new website and personnel DB will be shutdown and archived. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">In the new system, there will be three avenues for updating LTER personnel information:<u></u><u></u></p>
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Individuals will be able to login to the website and update their own information, except for committee memberships, which must be updated through the NCO.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormal">
LTER IM's, or other designated site personnel, will be able to update personnel information on people associated with their site through the Network web site. (They will also be able to update their site profile page and add/update images associated with their
site.)<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormal">
LTER IM's may provide a comma-separated values file with a list of site personnel and the NCO will upload it to the LDAP. Information will be pushed to the Network website within a day. Formats for those files will be released in mid-January if not sooner.<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b>In order to prepare for the transition, we have had to shut down the Network personnel database temporarily, so wanted to let you know that you will find it inaccessible until around the second week in January, when we plan to launch
the new site.</b> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Mailing lists will continue to function and the data will continue to be accessible throughout the transition; you simply won't be able to make updates to the data for the next few weeks. If there is an urgent need to add an individual
to a mailing list, please contact Marty and we can do so manually.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Meanwhile -- while the website is not entirely ready for launch, it is far enough along that you can get a good sense of the information it contains and how it will operate. If you have a few minutes over the next few weeks to peruse it,
I would appreciate your thoughts. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">View the new site (in progress) at
<a href="http://lter.ndic.com" target="_blank">lter.ndic.com</a> (Login and performance will be slower while it continues to reside on the development server.)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="list-style-position:outside">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">user login: dev<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="list-style-position:outside">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">pass: ndicdev<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="list-style-position:outside">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Feedback - email to
<a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a> or (preferred) via <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bgL01aU6BJa7_kdpNfAtQ4hZx73eP34mSxun6IPyENw/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">googledoc</span></a> (scroll
down to view key questions)<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Thanks very much for your patience.<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Happy holidays!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Marty<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Marty Downs<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Deputy Director<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/" target="_blank">LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">t: @USLTER<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">f: USLTER<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">University of California, Santa Barbara<br>
</span>Office: <a href="tel:(805)%20893-7549" value="+18058937549" target="_blank">805-893-7549</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Cell: <a href="tel:(617)%20833-7930" value="+16178337930" target="_blank">617-833-7930</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Marty Downs<div>Deputy Director</div><div><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/" target="_blank">LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)</a></div><div><a href="http://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=9c0b9b36a4" target="_blank">LTER Science Update</a></div><div>t: @USLTER</div><div>f: USLTER</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Office: 805-893-7549</span></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Cell: 617-833-7930</span></div><div><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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