Information ManagementTrends and Transitions

CWT and beyond

John F. Chamblee, Ph.D., CWT IMCoweeta LTER Winter Meeting, 11 Jul. 2013

Trends in Data Openness and Availability

NSF Memo regarding Data Management Plans:January 18, 2011 (revised guidelines from BIO,

2/20/2013)

http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsphttp://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/BIODMP061511.pdf

Trends in Data Openness and Availability

Executive Order 13571:April 27, 2011

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/27/executive-order-streamlining-service-delivery-and-improving-customer-ser

Trends in Data Openness and Availability

Executive Memorandum, Building a 21st Century Digital Government :

May 22, 2012

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/2012digital_mem_rel.pdf

Today, the CIO is releasing that strategy, entitled "Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People" (Strategy), which provides agencies with a 12-month roadmap that focuses on several priority areas. The Strategy will enable more efficient and coordinated digital service delivery by requiring agencies to establish specific, measurable goals for delivering better digital services; encouraging agencies to deliver information in new ways that fully utilize the power and potential of mobile and web-based technologies; ensuring the safe and secure delivery and use of digital services to protect information and privacy; requiring agencies to establish central online resources for outside developers and to adopt new standards for making applicable Government information open and machine-readable by default;

Data Availability is my

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http://coweeta.uga.edu/dbpublic/biblio_results.asp

Structured Data from CWT LTER

http://coweeta.uga.edu/dbpublic/personnel_bios.asp?id=jchamblee

People-readable

http://coweeta.uga.edu/dbpublic/data_catalog.asp

http://coweeta.uga.edu/dbpublic/dataset_details.asp?accession=LTR_REG_4044

Machine-readable

http://coweeta.uga.edu/dbpublic/send_eml.asp?accession=LTR_REG_4044

http://coweeta.uga.edu/cwt_metabase/xml/personnel.xml

http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/webservice/PASTAprog/knb-lter-cwt.3005.1.r

https://portal.lternet.edu/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-cwt.3005.1

“Dark data” and data submission

http://coweeta.uga.edu/dbpublic/resource_details.asp?id=705

Some things never change.

Annual reporting and the new private site:

http://coweeta.uga.edu/dbprivate/priv_home.asp

The end of the beginning

For now, additional changes will mean additional functionality:

Centralized service of structured data from LTER techs.

Tools to upload resources to share privately or with the public.

A single password for all CWT LTER web portals.

Authentication for graduate students.

Podcast tutorials for data post-processing and sensor mgmt.

The end of the beginning

LTER is a learning enterprise,

so we are never finished.

….but we are going to take a breath.

The end of the beginning