[LTER-im] International LTER database info

[Eda C. Melendez-Colom]

Hi,
I filled out LUQ's. My only challenge was to find theinformation rerequested. It is very complete database.
Edae
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  On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:54, Marty Downs<downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:   Dear IMs, 
First, allow me to apologize for some of the disjointed communications around the ILTER database process. Many factors conspired to create the situation, but I know it was less than ideal. In any case, here's the bottom line.
The International LTER organization is developing a database of member sites, based on the European LTER database. (They had to start with something and E-LTER comprises over 600 sites). They are requesting that US sites enter their information here: https://data.lter-europe.net/deims. 
It's not a perfect system -- data won't be updated automatically -- but can you imagine the effort required to create database links for almost 50 different networks with different standards? 
We are asking each US LTER site to complete their own information using this login info: 

​
Kristin Vanderbilt filled out the form for FCE and SEV and reports that it only took about 15 minutes per LTER site. A pdf of the FCE information is attached so you can see what type of information is requested and have the opportunity to gather it before you login.
Thanks so much for your help.Marty

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From: Mirtl Michael <michael.mirtl at umweltbundesamt.at>
Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 2:05 PM
Subject: [LTER-All-lter] [ilter_all] ILTER site registration and documentation now open: DEADLINE 30th June 2016.
To: "ilter_all at list.ilternet.edu" <ilter_all at list.ilternet.edu>



Dear ILTER colleagues,

 

this is a message of high relevance  for primary LTER investigators, scientific site coordinators and institutions operating formal LTER sites.

Please, read it carefully before getting back to us with questions.

 

Background:

According to the feedback on the “ILTER Futures” survey last year and the discussions we had at the 2015 ILTER CC in Italy one of our key ILTER assets consists in a global network of in-situ sites.

However, inspite of the unquestioned existence and value of this site network we´re lacking a quantitative overview and consistent documentation at the global level (sites, research questions, available data).

 

Status:

Some country networks and some regional groups have made significant progress in achieving such documentation, but we identified the priority to bring all this together and agreed on a basic list of site attributes.

 

These attributes have now been implemented in a new version of the global web-services for ecosystem research site documentation DEIMS:

https://data.lter-europe.net/deims

 

The time for registering your LTER sites has come!

 

Implications:

Proper documentation of your LTER site(s) by filling the mandatory attributes is a prerequisite for formal acknowledgement (DEADLINE: 30th June 2016). Still, we´d recommend full documentation to provide the full value and potential of your sites to a global community of users and stakeholders.

 

In the future only properly documented sites will show up in ILTER site statistics and maps.

 

For some regional groups (e.g. LTER Europe) this will be a minor effort (mainly  update of a few attributes). Some regional groups or countries will have to register and document  their sites from the scratch.

 

Even for sites with no documentation up to now, the effort should be in the range of a couple of hours maximum (mandatory attributes).

We will send regions/country specific information in addition to this general call to the affected regional groups (or countries), inter alia to indicate a small set of attributes, which have to be updated in any case due to recent standardization.

 

Technicalities:

Website and basic introduction

·         Go to: https://data.lter-europe.net/deims

·         Watching a  video demonstration for "newcomers“ might be the first step: Video demonstration on How to Add a Site.

·         There is some help text at: https://data.lter-europe.net/deims/article/2016/03/15/whats-new-and-general-help

·         As an example for a appropriate site documentation you might have a look at https://data.lter-europe.net/deims/site/LTER_EU_AT_003

 

Access:

·         The following are the country login names (country “user” = one user name and password per country): 
Australia,China,Japan,Korea,Malaysia,Mongolia,Philipines,Taiwan,Thailand,Austria,Bulgaria,Czech,Finland,France,Germany,Hungary,Israel,Italy,Jordan,Latvia,Lithuania,Netherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Serbia,Slovakia,Slovenia,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,UK,Ukraine,Canada,Mexico,US,Malawi,Mozambique,Namibia,saeon,Zambia,Brazil,Chile,Colombia,Costa,Uruguay,Venezuela,Malaysia

·         National reps should know their country password. If anyone needs their password, they can email dblankman1 at gmail.com.

·         All SITE editing should be done with the “country user”.

·         We suggest, that you clarify and stay in close contact with your LTER country representative in order to register and document sites according to the national agreement about the elements of your national LTER network (what sites form part of the national network according to the national agreement).

·         National acknowledgment of sites is a prerequisite for global acknowledgement. For both steps special attributes were introduced  (there will be a separate email to national LTER coordinators on this issue).

 

Global support:

·         Technical support, bug fixing and suggestions for technical improvements: Christoph Wohner  christoph.wohner at umweltbundesamt.at (Austria)

·         Contents: Johannes Peterseil johannes.peterseil at umweltbundesamt.at  (Austria)

·         General supportL: Davied Blankman dblankman1 at gmail.com (Israel)

·         Support regarding assignment of LTER sites to the agreed site categories (LTSER platform, Master, Regular, Satellite): michael.mirtl at umweltbundesamt.at (mainly for national LTER coordinators)

 

Regional support:

·         Inigo San Gil  isangil at lternet.edu (US)

·         Margaret Koopman (SAEON) margaret at saeon.ac.za (Africa)

 

​ DEADLINES

·         Please, finish your site documenation by 30th June 2016!

·         After June 2016 we´ll start to formally acknowledge sites according to their documentation.

 

 

Global statistics of LTER sites and derived products such as maps will only consider properly registered and documented sites.

 

 

With this step we´re entering a new era in terms of presenting our ILTER network and infrastructure in a consistent and objective manner to a global audience of researchers and stakeholders.

 

This is the time & place to thank the DEIMS team and developers group for the engagement and great progress since the ILTER CC in Italy:

Christoph Wohner, David Blankman & Johannes Peterseil

 

Good luck & looking forward to presenting the fruits of your efforts at the ILTER Open Science Meeting in South Africa!

 

Michael Mirtl

(Chair of ILTER)

 

 

Michael Mirtl, DI Dr.
Head of Unit

     Abteilungsleiter

Ecosystem Research 
& Environmental Information Management

     Ökosystemforschung & Umweltinformationsmanagement

Phone: +43 - (0)1 - 31304 - 3410

Fax: +43 - (0)1 - 31304 - 3533
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