Workshop on Data Discovery in the Biological Sciences When: 7-9 February 2005 Where: University of New Mexico’s Ecoinformatics Training and Software Usabililty Testing Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Rooms 335 and 337 in CERIA) Lodging: Sheraton Old Town—a very nice hotel with internet and near fine restaurants and shopping Cost: free, covered by grants and society contributions What: A 2+ day workshop on data discovery and the creation of data registries / metadata catalogs. Workshop goals are: 1. Review existing data registries and supporting technologies 2. Perform cross-walk of registry elements from selected data registries 3. Evaluate capacity of a standardized data registry for meeting needs of broad biological sciences community 4. Assess usability of existing registries 5. Identify needed functionality for data registry search engines 6. Examine how existing data registries can support NEON and other national, continental, and global environmental observatory networks. 7. Determine next steps for promoting data discovery in biology Who: Jane Bain—ESA David Baldwin—ESA Reed Beaman—American Society of Plant Taxonomists James Brunt—LTER (EML and Morpho) Duane Costa—LTER (developer) Jeremy Cothran—University of South Carolina (NERRS) Laura Downey—UNM (SEEK Senior Usability Engineer) Cliff Duke—ESA Cliff Cunningham—NESC Sid Garg—NCEAS (developer) Jeff Goldman—AIBS Nancy Grimm—ESA (Governing Board) Vivian Hutchison—USGS (NBII) Matt Jones—NCEAS (EML and Morpho, SEEK) William Michener—LTER, NEON and SEEK William Piel—TreeBASE John Porter—University of Virginia (Global Change Master Directory and LTER DTOC representative) Jim Reichman—NCEAS (ESA) Tim Rhyne—ORNL/NBII Samantha Romanello—SEEK and Mellon Foundation Inigo San Gil—NBII/LTER (developer) Mark Servilla—LTER (NIS) Mark Stromberg—OBFS, Ca NRS, and ESA-LTSS representative Agenda: Monday: AM 8:00 Pickup at motel (vans driven by George Garcia and Samantha Romanello) Continental breakfast (coffee, juices, bagels, fruit, etc.) will be available upon arrival at meeting facility. 8:30 Welcome (Michener, Duke) Introductions Summary of previous society meeting (Duke) Objectives for meeting and approval of agenda (Michener) 9:00 a) b) c) d) e) Talks/demonstrations of: GCMD – John Porter (20-30 minutes) LTER DTOC – John Porter (10-15 minutes) EML/Morpho – Matt Jones (30-40 minutes) OBFS/CaNRS/ESA LTSS - Mark Stromberg (20-30 minutes) LTER/EML Best Practices – Mark Servilla (15-20 minutes) f) GBIF (DiGIR)/NBII/Mercury/DIF/DAAC/ECHO/etc. - Tim Rhyne (45 minutes) Break scheduled for mid-morning LUNCH (walk to local eateries) PM Cross walk of data registry elements – James Brunt, Sid Garg, John Porter, and Inigo San Gil Usability talk and exercise - Laura Downey Break scheduled for mid-afternoon Wrap-up: 20 minute summary of cross walk exercise – Brunt 20 minute talk on usability engineering – Downey 20 minute summary of usability exercise – Downey et al. Tuesday: AM 8:00 Pickup at motel Continental breakfast (coffee, juices, bagels, fruit, etc.) will be available upon arrival at meeting facility. Evaluate capacity of a Standard Data Registry for meeting needs of biological community. - Roundtable (Moderators – Cliff Duke and Bill Michener) Identify needed functionality for data registry search engines – (Roundtable discussion moderated by Duane Costa, Laura Downey, Matt Jones, Mark Stromberg). Break scheduled for mid-morning LUNCH PM Examine how a comprehensive data registry can support NEON and other National observatory networks (Jeff Goldman, James Brunt, Jeremy Cothran, Vivian Hutchison) Break scheduled for mid-afternoon Next steps for promoting data discovery in biology (Roundtable discussion: Jim Reichman, Reed Beaman, Cliff Cunningham, William Piel and Tim Rhyne) Wednesday: 8:00 Pickup at motel Continental breakfast (coffee, juices, bagels, fruit, etc.) will be available upon arrival at meeting facility. Writing workshop report and follow-up actions. Writing Session—Baldwin, Duke, Reichman, Grimm, Michener, Jones, others…. Other breakout(s) to be determined. Attendees: Jane Bain Data Archives Manager, Ecological Society of America 127 W. State St. Suite 301 Ithaca, NY 14850-5427 Phone: (607) 255-3221 Fax: (607) 273-3294 jlb40@cornell.edu David Baldwin ESA Managing Editor 127 W. State St. Suite 301 Ithaca, NY 14850-5427 Phone: (607) 255-3221 Fax: (607) 273-3294 jdb27@cornell.edu Reed Beaman Associate Director for Biodiversity Informatics Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, PO Box 208118 New Haven CT 06520-8118 203.432.9606 Fax: 203.432.7907 reed.beaman@yale.edu James Brunt Associate Director, LTER Network Office Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 ph: 505.277.2535; fax: 505.277.2541 mobile: 505.2693472 jbrunt@LTERnet.edu Duane Costa LTER Network Office Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 ph: 505.277.2708; fax: 505.277.2541 dcosta@LTERnet.edu Jeremy Cothran Office Number: 401 Building: School of Public Heath University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Phone: 803-777-4469 Fax: 803-777-3391 Email: jcothran@caracoops.org Cliff Cunningham Duke University National Evolutionary Synthesis Center Box 90338 Durham, NC 27708 919.660.7356 Fax: 919.660.7293 cliff@duke.edu www.nescent.org Laura Downey LTER Network Office (SEEK) Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 ph: 505.277.3157; fax: 505.277.2541 ldowney@LTERnet.edu Clifford S. Duke, Ph.D. Director of Science Programs Ecological Society of America 1707 H Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202-833-8773 ext. 202 Fax: 202-833-8775 Mobile: 202-320-0905 csduke@esa.org www.esa.org/science Sid Garg NCEAS University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, Ca 93106-9610 E-Mail: sgarg@nceas.ucsb.edu Jeffrey Goldman Science Office Director American Institute of Biological Sciences 1444 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005 tel: 202-628-1500, ext 225 fax: 202-628-1509 jgoldman@aibs.org Nancy Grimm Arizona State University School of Life Science PO Box 874502 Tempe, AZ 85287-4501 Phone (480)965-4735 Fax (480)965-6899 nbgrimm@asu.edu http://lsweb.la.asu.edu/ngrimm/ Vivian Hutchison Vivian B Hutchison National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) US Geological Survey Western Fisheries Research Center 6505 NE 65th Street Seattle, WA 98115 ph: 206.526.6282 ext. 329 fax: 206.526.6654 vhutchison@usgs.gov Matt Jones National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA Ph: 907-789-0496 Fax: 425-920-2439 jones@nceas.ucsb.edu http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/ William Michener Associate Director, LTER Network Office Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 ph: 505.277.2769; fax: 505.277.2541 mobile: 505.220.3123 wmichener@LTERnet.edu William Piel TreeBASE 716.645.2363 x178 wpiel@buffalo.edu piel@treebase.org John Porter Department of Environmental Sciences Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA Phone 1: (434) 924-8999 Phone 2: (434) 924-6546 Fax: (434) 982-2137 Primary Email: jhp7e@virginia.edu LTER Alias: jporter@lternet.edu Alt. Email 2: URL: http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/jhp7e.html Jim Reichman Professor, EEMB; Director, NCEAS Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, Ca 93106-9610 Phone: (805) 892-2504 Fax: (805) 892-2510 E-Mail: reichman@nceas.ucsb.edu Tim Rhyne ORNL Computational Physics & Engineering Division Building 1507, Mail Stop 6407 +1 (865) 574-7447 rhynebt@ornl.gov Samantha Romanello LTER Network Office Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 ph: 505.277.7460 fax: 505.277.2541 sroman@LTERnet.edu Mark Servilla LTER Network Office Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 ph: 505.277.2619; fax: 505.277.2541 mservilla@LTERnet.edu Inigo San Gil LTER Network Office and NBII Department of Biology, MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 ph: 505.277.___; fax: 505.277.2541 Mark R. Stromberg, Ph.D. Resident Reserve Director U. C. Hastings Reserve 38601 E. Carmel Valley, CA 93924 Office: 831 659-2664 fax: 831 659-0148 stromber@socrates.berkeley.edu Hastings Reserve on the Web: Organization of Biological Field Stations http://www.hastingsreserve.org http://www.obfs.org