[LTER-im] Questions about deprecating the LTER Data Portal...

[Mark Servilla]

Dear IMs,

A few questions have been asked to me directly regarding my recent email
about deprecating the LTER Data Portal. Let me summarize my answers for the
entire IM community in case others have similar questions. Also, please
feel free to bring up any additional questions or concerns you may have in
this matter. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Mark

1. The LTER Data Portal is very different from PASTA: the LTER Data Portal
operates as a web server that is completely separate (both physically and
functionally) from the EDI/PASTA data repository, albeit, it is dependent
on the PASTA API to communicate with the repository for data package
related services (much in the same way that the EDI Data Portal is
dependent on the PASTA API). As such, deprecation of the LTER Data Portal
will not affect PASTA, or your use of the PASTA API, in any way. Rest
assured that you will not have to change or modify your data package
publishing or catalog work-flow if you use the PASTA REST web-service API
directly (e.g., https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/eml/...).

2. If your site's Internet website or other related documentation
references the LTER Data Portal URL address "https://portal.lternet.edu/nis",
you should change the LTER Data Portal URL address to reference the EDI
Data Portal URL address "https://portal.edirepository.org/nis" prior to the
LTER Data Portal's final shut-down date (late summer 2020; specific date
TBD). Once shut-down, attempts to reach the LTER Data Portal will result in
a "Site cannot be reached" error in your web browser.

3. Data packages that have been published and archived through the LTER
Data Portal are also accessible through the EDI Data Portal (and vice
versa). Regardless of which data portal is used to initiate the archive
process, all data packages are ultimately archived in the EDI/PASTA data
repository. As a matter of course, the features found on the EDI Data
Portal are both equivalent to and exceed those of the LTER Data Portal. For
this reason, you should not experience any functional depreciation in your
day-to-day repository needs when using the EDI Data Portal.

4. As a member of the LTER Information Manager community you should
continue the use of your site or personal LTER LDAP credentials when
authenticating (i.e., "logging on") to the EDI/PASTA data repository
through the EDI Data Portal. One subtle difference from the LTER Data
Portal, however, is that you will have to actively select the "LTER"
affiliation at the bottom of the login web page when authenticating through
the EDI Data Portal since the default affiliation is set to "EDI".

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Mark Servilla
mark.servilla at gmail.com
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