[LTER-im-rep] Poll Question concerning LTER Metacat Content and whether it should be archived and hidden during DataONE search and discovery

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hi Linda -
Mark and I talked about this a week or two ago. In defense of the system 
(his), archiving data from the first MN (metacat) was always planned, 
but Mark's time has been stretched a bit lately.

When we talked,  I said that I'd bring it up again with the IMC or 
imexec. IMExec meets next week. Thanks for getting the ball rolling.

Margaret

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Margaret O'Brien
Information Management
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2071 (voice)
http://sbc.lternet.edu

On 11/12/15 7:58 AM, Linda A Powell wrote:
>
> Dear Information Managers,
>
> As some of you may know, the FCE LTER program discontinued its 
> practice of file versioning where each updated data file would be 
> given a different file name (.v1, .v2, etc.) and a new EML package 
> ID.     We initially had 525 data files that got combined into new 
> data files so our FCE data count decreased to 125 data files.  I 
> started the EML packaging ID numbers for the newly combined data files 
> at knb-lter-fce.1050 (well beyond the last package ID 
> knb-lter-fce.525) and I personally deleted all the old versioned data 
> from the LTER Metacat.  I then added the 125 new files back into the 
> Metacat and PASTA.
>
>
> Unfortunately,  those files were never really deleted from Metacat, 
> only archived, and when the Metacat files were harvested into DataONE, 
> *ALL* my files, including those I thought were ‘deleted’ and the 
> existing, were uploaded.  Now the FCE has a big mess! The old 
> 'deleted' files are listed but none of the files exist any longer so 
> the links to the data don’t work.  I’m sure the DataONE users are 
> frustrated!  There may be Metacat files that other IMs have thought 
> were deleted that are also showing up in DataONE.
>
>
> */My question to the LTER IMs is whether the content that existed in 
> the LTER Metacat should be archived and made hidden during search and 
> discovery from the DataONE infrastructure (i.e. ONEMercury, CN API, 
> etc.)? /* I've asked Mark Servilla to help with this issue and we 
> thought It would be simplest and scale economically if he could 
> perform this operation at one time and for all LTER site content as 
> opposed to performing this operation for each site independently.  Of 
> course we want input from the IMC before we move forward.
>
>
> *I’ve created a Doodle Poll (http://doodle.com/poll/uw87khqqyhhsiry5) 
> and would appreciate input from EACH of the LTER site IMs as to 
> whether the content that existed in the LTER Metacat should be 
> archived and made hidden during search and discovery from the DataONE 
> infrastructure?  Please select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. *
>
> Thank you in advance for your participation!
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Linda
>
>
> Linda Powell
> Information Manager
> Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
> OE 148, Florida International University
> University Park
> Miami, Florida 33199
> Phone (Tallahassee, FL): 850-745-0381
> Phone(Miami,FL): 305-856-0039 or  305-348-6054
> Website: http://fcelter.fiu.edu
>
>
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