[LTER-education] Quick Poll about Schoolyard Data for EDI

[Snow, Pamela M.]

Hi LTER Ed Reps,

Wondering if folks could reply to the following ?s related to sharing LTER Schoolyard Ecology Data with EDI:


  1.  Does your site have student collected (or citizen science) datasets that could potentially be shared with EDI?
  2.  Has your site already sent any student or citizen science datasets to EDI ?


We at Harvard Forest, do have some fairly large datasets that have been carefully curated by our Information Manager, Emery Boose, using an online database that he created for our program.  Emery has suggested that we share those data with EDI for long term management and sharing as needed.  See his message to the LTER-CO I's at Harvard Forest below:

The HF Schoolyard LTER program now has a... collection of observations by regional schools dating back to 2004.  The fall phenology protocol alone, for example, has more than 21,000 individual tree observations.  Unlike our regular scientific data, which are posted as downloadable files in the HF Data Archive and in EDI, the schoolyard data are stored in an online database system that makes it easier for teachers and students to enter data and to use various summarizing and graphing tools.  The database is backed up daily (as part of the admin database), but it is not permanently stored in a data repository.

I'm wondering if it would make sense to capture an annual snapshot of the schoolyard database (as csv files), create or update an EML metadata file, and submit the dataset to the EDI repository, with suitable cautions in the metadata that this is a schoolyard program and the quality control is less rigorous than for our other scientific data.
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I look forward to hearing back from any site who is able to respond to my 2 questions above by  our next EOC meeting.


Thanks,

Pamela

Pamela M. Snow
Schoolyard Ecology Coordinator

Harvard Forest
324 North Main Street
Petersham, MA
978-756-6146
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