Wednesday, Aug 1 - - Reception: 6:00 - 9:00 PM, Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel
Thursday, Aug 2 - - LTER Meeting: 8:00 - 5:00, 3190 Grainger Hall, UW
Thursday, Aug 2 - - Group Dinner: 6:30 PM, Porta Bella Restaurant
Friday, Aug 3 - - LTER Meeting: 8:00 - 5:00, 3190 Grainger Hall, UW
Saturday, Aug 4 - - Metadata Tools Workshop: 8:00 - 12:00, 3190 Grainger Hall, UW
Saturday, Aug 4 - - IM Exec Meeting: 1:00 - 4:00, Library, Center for Limnology
Sunday, Aug 5
- - ESA workshop: Scalable Information Systems 8:00 5:00,
Hall of Ideas H, Monona Terrace Convention Center
| Wednesday, Aug 1, PM | |||
| 6:00 - 9:00 | Reception : Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel | ||
| Cash bar starts at 6 PM | |||
| -- light dinner provided | |||
| Introductions, Review of agenda | |||
| Presentations by new sites (FCE, GCE, SBC) --- 10 min each | |||
| Presentation (Judy Cushing) --- 15 min -- Forest Canopy Project | |||
| Presentation (Jens Schumacher) --- 10 min -- Biodiversity Project (Germany) | |||
| Group discussion: Topic to be determined | |||
| Thursday, Aug 2, AM | |||
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Welcome and logistics (Benson) | ||
| 8:30 - 10:00 | NIS update (Brunt, Henshaw, Baker) | ||
| NIS Orientation / Personnel Database (Maddux) 15 min | |||
| SiteDB Demo (Baker, Blankman) 10 min | |||
| Data Table of Contents (DTOC) (Porter) 5 min | |||
| Bibliography / Endnote Demo (Blankman) 10 min | |||
| ClimDB / HydroDB Status (Henshaw) 10 min | |||
| Knowledge-base Overview and Revised Vision of NIS (Brunt) 10 min | |||
| Integration of NIS Components (Blankman) 15 min | |||
| NIS Future Directions (Eddins) 15 min | |||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | -- break | ||
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Discussion: NIS | ||
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Overview of the LTER/NCEAS KDI (Jones, Brunt) | ||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | DACC-LTER connection (Olson) 15 min presentation plus discussion | ||
| Thursday, Aug 2, PM | |||
| 12:00 - 1:15 | -- lunch (IMExec meets) | ||
| 1:15 - 2:15 | Metadata standards (McCartney, Jones) | ||
| 2:15 - 3:00 | Discussion: Metadata standards | ||
| 3:00 - 3:15 | -- break | ||
| 3:15 - 4:15 | Breakout groups: Subcommittees (NIS, Metadata) + Site mentoring | ||
| 4:15 - 5:00 | Breakout group reports and discussion of site mentoring | ||
| 6:30 | Group dinner at Porta Bella | ||
| Italian Restaurant and Wine Cellar, 425 N Francis St | |||
| Friday, Aug 3, AM | |||
| 8:00 - 8:15 | Logistics (Benson) | ||
| 8:15 - 8:45 | Outreach (Stafford) | ||
| Schoolyard LTER (Baker) | |||
| ILTER (Vanderbilt) | |||
| ILTER video (Porter) | |||
| RCN proposal for OBFS (Michener) | |||
| NSF Workshop on biodiversity and ecosystem informatics (Porter,Cushing) | |||
| 8:45 - 9:30 | NIS vision and development of cross-site synthesis procedure protocol | ||
| Data synthesis workshop (Benson) | |||
| Cross-site projects | |||
| Species Invasion (Ackerman) | |||
| Biogeochemistry (McCartney) | |||
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Discussion: Cross-site Synthesis | ||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | -- break | ||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Technology Committee report (VandeCastle) | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Business Meeting (Stafford) | ||
| CC meeting report (Porter) | |||
| IMExec reorganization proposal (Baker) | |||
| Databits report and selection of new editors (Sheldon) | |||
| Subcommittee membership for coming year | |||
| Election of 2 IMExec reps | |||
| Friday, Aug 3, PM | |||
| 12:00 - 1:15 | -- lunch | ||
| 1:15 - 2:15 | Metadata standards implementation (McCartney, Jones) | ||
| 2:15 - 3:15 | Breakout groups: metadata standards implementation | ||
| 3:15 - 3:30 | -- break | ||
| 3:30 - 4:15 | Discussion: Metadata standards implementation | ||
| 4:15 - 5:00 | Meeting wrap-up and writing assignments | ||
| Saturday, Aug 4, AM | |||
| 8:00 - 12:00 | Metadata Tools Workshop (details to be supplied by McCartney) | ||
| 3190 Grainger Hall, UW | |||
| Saturday, Aug 4,PM | |||
| 1:00 - 4:00 | IMExec Meeting | ||
| Library, Center for Limnology | |||
| Sunday, Aug 5 | |||
| 8:00 - 5:00 | ESA workshop: Scalable Information Systems | ||
| Hall of Ideas H, Monona Terrace Convention Center | |||
