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:
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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)
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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
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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