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Institution:Colorado State University - NREL
Email Address: daveb@nrel.colostate.edu
Research Area: Other
Views of Dave Bigelow about report of the Biodiversity Monitoring Workshop :
I would be very interested in working towards developing a data management stragegy either for an observatory (CPER) or a center. Presently I don't necessarily see advantages of a distributed versus central system. Some key observations I've had with data management systems on large projects are that distributed systems sometimes make data ownership issues easier to mitigate and central systems sometimes suffer problems in keeping them up to date.
Two networks that I have been involved in developing data management, QA and Web strategies for might serve as examples of what might be done with cooperating resources. Their URL's are:
http://uvb.nrel.colostate.edu and http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/