Spring 2008 Issue

Table of Contents

Feature Articles

The FCE LTER Website has a NEW look! PDF Rich Text
Linda Powell
Developing a Searchable Document and Imagery Archive for the GCE-LTER Web Site PDF Rich Text
Wade Sheldon
Improving the Basic Keyword Search for Datasets by Employing Text Mining Techniques and Indexing PDF Rich Text
Hung V. Nguyen, Corinna Gries, Hasan Davulcu
Developing and Using APIs in System Design PDF Rich Text
James Connors, Mason Kortz
FinLTSER Network: New addition to the global LTER network PDF Rich Text
Helena Karasti

Commentary

Using Xen and VMWare to Manage Virtual Machines: A New User’s Saga PDF Rich Text
John H. Porter
Making Sense of Collaboration Software PDF Rich Text
James W Brunt
Big Science and Local Meetings PDF Rich Text
Karen Baker, Sabine Grabner
Preservation Metadata: Another Chapter in the Metadata Story PDF Rich Text
Lynn Yarmey
Data Quality: Yet Another Chapter in the Metadata Story PDF Rich Text
Lynn Yarmey

Good Tools and Programs

Specifik, a Taxonomic Reference Tool to Support Synthesis of Vegetation Data PDF Rich Text
Ken Ramsey, Nicole Kaplan
Using Keyhole Markup Language for Geographical Data Browsers PDF Rich Text
John H. Porter
EML 2.1.0 to be Released Soon PDF Rich Text
Margaret O'Brien, Matthew Jones
A closer look at the NBII metadata clearinghouse PDF RICH TEXT
Inigo San Gil, Giri Palanisamy
LTER Data Catalog Upgrades to Metacat 1.8.0 PDF Rich Text
Duane Costa, Mark Servilla

Good Reads

Advancing ecological research with ontologies PDF Rich Text
Margaret O'Brien
Cyberinfrastructure Primer PDF Rich Text
Karen Baker
Digital Data Practices and the Long Term Ecological Research Program PDF Rich Text
Inigo San Gil

News Bits

USFS Experimental Forest and Range Information Manager Meeting PDF Rich Text
Don Henshaw, Dave Rugg

Calendar

Calendar of Upcoming Informatics Conferences PDF Rich Text
Wade Sheldon

Printable Version

DataBits Spring 2008 Issue - Printable Version PDF
Wade Sheldon