[LTER-im] IMC VWC on January 8 at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST

[Remillard, Suzanne]

Dear IM's,

Date: Monday, January 8th at 12 pm PST/3 pm EST
Topic: New LTER Network Website hosted by NCO
Connection: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058932071

Just a friendly reminder about our monthly Virtual Water Cooler (VWC) session this Monday, January 8th 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).

The December VWC had low attendance, but sounds like a good conversation(http://im.lternet.edu/vwc-dec2017).  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.

Please make sure you have these dates and times in your calendar so that you may participate.

See you around the water cooler!

Suzanne



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From: im [mailto:im-bounces at lists.lternet.edu] On Behalf Of Marty Downs
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2017 12:39 PM
To: im at lternet.edu; EDI <info at environmentaldatainitiative.org>
Cc: Nick Outin <outin at nceas.ucsb.edu>
Subject: [LTER-im] Web site transitions and network personnel database

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the new system, there will be three avenues for updating LTER personnel information:


  1.  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.
  2.  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.)
  3.  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.

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.

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.

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.

  *   View the new site (in progress) at lter.ndic.com<http://lter.ndic.com>   (Login and performance will be slower while it continues to reside on the development server.)
  *   user login: dev
  *   pass: ndicdev
  *   Feedback -  email to downs at nceas.ucsb.edu<mailto:downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> or (preferred) via googledoc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bgL01aU6BJa7_kdpNfAtQ4hZx73eP34mSxun6IPyENw/edit?usp=sharing> (scroll down to view key questions)
Thanks very much for your patience.
Happy holidays!

Marty


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