[LTER-im] IMC Virtual Water Cooler - September 11 at 3 pm ET/12 pm PT - Unit Registry & Dictionary

[Remillard, Suzanne]

Hi All,

Our next IMC Virtual Water Cooler will take place next week on Monday, September 11th at 11am Alaska, 12pm Pacific, 1pm Mountain, 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern.  This VWC topics include the LTER Unit Registry and Unit Dictionary and will be moderated by Margaret O'Brien representing EDI.  Work on the LTER Unit Dictionary dates back to 2005, which led to the development of the Unit Task Force, UTF, in 2007 (remember the t-shirts?, if not, go see the group photo) and resulted in the two pivotal products, the Unit Registry (2011) and relevant Best Practice document (v14 2011) on formulation and use of scientific units within the community.  EDI have been reviewing the registry and have begun to develop some recommendations for its future that they will share as well as the RFC process on the recommendations and planned implementation.

Please join the VWC with this zoom link:  https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058932071

References:
2007 group photo: http://im.lternet.edu/news/meetings/2007/participants
Unit Registry: http://unit.lternet.edu/unitregistry/
Best Practice document: http://im.lternet.edu/sites/im.lternet.edu/files/LTERunitBestPractices_V14.pdf
Unit Working Group project page: http://im.lternet.edu/projects/units


See you around the water cooler!

Suzanne


Suzanne Remillard
Andrews LTER Information Manager
Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR  97331
(541) 758-8767
suzanne.remillard at oregonstate.edu

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