Information Management at Jornada Basin LTER

This is the full documentation for the Jornada Basin LTER Information Management system, covering technical aspects of our data publishing process, data management tools, and administration of public-facing information like the website and data catalog. Researchers and data users should start at the Jornada IM web pages to get started with Jornada data management. This is a DRAFT document.

Table of contents

Preface: The JRN LTER Data Management Plan

Chapters:

1. Research & data management overview
   • Introduction
   • Research project management
   • Research data management
   • Public dataset listings
   • Bibliographies
   • Local servers
   • Hosted services (external)
2. Policy and procedures
   • Research notifications and approval
   • Data access policies
   • Metadata and data submission
3. General systems administration
   • Server & cloud administration
4. Data collection and quality assurance
   • Archiving data on network shares
   • GCE and MATLAB extensions
   • Scripted QA/QC
5. Metadata collection and standards
   • Metadata standards
6. JRN Metabase
   • Installation and configuration
   • Server and database administration
   • The LTER Metabase schema and data model
   • Populating a new database
   • Create and update datasets
   • PostgreSQL help links
7. Publishing Jornada datasets
   • Overview, conventions, and standards
   • Making EML with JRN Metabase
     • SOP for entering metadata in Metabase: docx, web page (draft)
   • Making EML with EMLassemblyline
8. Project management
   1. Project database
   2. Personnel updates
   3. Publication updates
9. The JRN website and other communication platforms
   • The JRN Website - an overview
   • Website content
   • Website apps
     • The data catalogs
     • Zotero bibliography
     • Interactive data viewer
   • Shared mailing lists
10. Tools and apps
    • Guide to Jornada-IM repositories
    • Analytics apps
    • DSIS
11. Hacks
    • Parse trello boards to CSV format
12. External data, partnerships, and collaboration
    • Collaborations with USDA-ARS data managers
    • Asombro data
    • NEON data
13. Annual reports
    • 2020
    • 2021