Transcript EML status of LTER sites Network Information System

IM meeting, Estes Park ‘06
Network
Information
System
EML status of LTER sites
Iñigo San Gil
Sep 19 2006
EML status of LTER sites
Almost all the LTER sites have implemented the EML standard.
The same LTER sites, have made EML metadata available at centralized
servers.
These “Metacat” servers have harvested 4,900 EML documents from
LTER sites. “Harvested" here is loosely defined as: at least a few
metadata sets of low content placed in the server. Also, the site has a
good plan to place all legacy data in, and with specific plans to enrich
EML, if appropriate.
Over half of the LTER sites have attribute-level EML. This means that
potentially, the associated data can be accessed and interpreted
programatically.
LTER Network Information System
LTER Sites EML Status
Outline
EML: Past, Present and Future
Past & present –
How is LTER’s EML?
Future –
What needs to be done?
WHY?
LTER Network Information System
EML status of LTER sites
LTER’s EML past:
Last year, some sites had yet to harvest, furthermore, some LTER sites had to
implement the EML standard. This text is taken from last year “EML Status”
report at the 2005 IM Montreal meeting. Now we show how these sites fared.
“ How about the 25% ?
FCE
KNZ
HFR
PAL
CDR
BNZ
JRN
harvested About to be harvested to an high EML level
harvested Has very rich EML metadata
harvested Has implemented EML level 3ish. (To complete: Entity table)
Focus on site reorganization process long term plans
harvested Working on EML implementation and harvest as we speak
harvested Positively intrigued about it
harvested On the verge of posting level 5 EML for 70% of datasets ”
LTER Network Information System
LTER Sites EML Evolution : Graph
LTER’s EML past & present
Graph shows
how the EML
implementation
changed over
the last year
and half
Number of LTER sites
EML evolution over time
Jan-05
LTER Network Information System
Apr-05
Jul-05
Oct-05
Jan-06
Apr-06
Jul-06
EML status of LTER sites: Present
You can see a first
order categorization
of the EML Tier levels
implemented at the
sites
There are fine
differences not noted
in the figure, such as
the percentage of
metadata converted
to EML and the
precise richness
content
MCR
Attribute Level EML
ARC
BNZ
No Attribute info
No EML
AND
SBC
CCE
PAL
CDR
NTL
SGS
NWT
LNO
CAP SEV
JRN
KNZ
KBS
HBR
HFR
PIE
BES
VCR
CWT
GCE
FCE
MCM
LTER Network Information System
LUQ
EML status of LTER sites: Some numbers
Site
Harvesting Since
TIER level Harvested sets % EML/ % Harvested
AND
Jun
’05
5
ARC
BES
CAP
CWT
GCE
HBR
KBS
LNO
Apr
Apr
Aug
May
Apr
Jul
Aug
Jan
’05
’05
’04
’05
’04
’04
’04
’05
2½
LUQ
NTL
May ’05
Apr ’05
3½
NWT
Jun ’05
PIE
Jul ’05
SEV
SGS
Jul ’05
Aug ’05
3
VCR
Jul
5
’05
130 124
1598 1585
2
100 2
5
79 30
2½
190
5
279 245
4
112
5
41 40
2 (a few 4)
360
100 / 100
80 / 80
5/5
90 / 70 100 25
100 / 97
100 / 100
100 / 100
100 / 100
100 / 100
96
46 43
100 / 100
90 / 90
2½
139
100 / 100
2½
118 111
100 / 100
5
5
BLUE, Sept 2006 number
LTER Network Information System
100 / 100
97 46
9
110
63
50 / 50
10 / 10 DB work
100 / 100
BLACK, Aug 2005 number
EML status of LTER sites: Some numbers
Site
Harvesting Since
BNZ
Oct – 05
3.5
139
90 / 90
-/-
CDR
Jun - 06
5
617
95 / 95
-/-
FCE
Sep – 05
5
265
100 / 100
HFR
Mar - 06
3+
96
100 / 100
JRN
Sep - 05
5
50
35 / 35
KNZ
Aug - 05
5
43
100 / 100
100 / 0
MCM
Feb - 06
5
167
100 / 100
5/5
’04
5
22
--
--
SBC
PAL
N/A
MCR
New Site
CCE
New Site
LTER Network Information System
TIER level # Docs % EML / % Harvested
100 / 0
100 / 0
-/-
100 / 100
-- / --
-- / --
BLUE, Sept 2006 number
BLACK, Aug 2005 number
EML status of LTER sites: Looking at the Future
Room for improvement ?
Attribute Level EML -- units
QA / QC
-- make sure documents are accurate
Direct, unobstructed URL links or Inline Data
WHY improve? “If it aint broke, dont fix it”
Check out what can we do today with WELL documented data
See Trends Demo/workshop, Explore Kepler & ASM posters.
LTER Network Information System
Why Would Anyone Do Good EML: Synthesis tools
Excerpts from an ASM poster
LTER Network Information System
Why Would Anyone Do Good EML: Trends
NIS Trends: A web companion to the Trends book.
Visualization of long term datasets
LTER Network Information System
Why Would Anyone Do Good EML: Kepler
Kepler: An open source tool to design & execute scientific workflows.