Information Management Timeline - Detailed

2011

  • Virtual Learning Environment Meeting, OuluU, Finland, ILTER Supplement (Baker, Vanderbilt, Pennington, Karasti)
  • LTER IMC Governance Working Group Terms of Reference (Baker) IMC/NISAC
  • IM Recharge Facility at SIO given go-ahead
  • NISAC Meeting with IMExec Albuquerque (Baker)
  • Programmer/analyst resign (Kortz, to attend law school)
  • Information Manager retire (Baker, to attend graduate school)
  • PAL Information Manager (J. Conners)
  • IMC Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA

2010

  • Plans to replace server iSurf (orig iocean purchased in 2004)
  • Programmer/analyst resign (Yarmey, position as Stanford science librarian)
  • Design Studio study (K. Baker, J. Donovan)
  • Ocean Informatics summer reading group
  • DataZoo middleware design launched, Generation 3 system
  • Post ASM LTER grant funded - Unit Registry (Baker, Kortz)
  • LTER IM product oriented support - Personnel Directory web service (Baker, Kortz)
  • Web services LTER IM buy-out support - Web Services (Kortz)
  • IMC Meeting at Kellogg Biological Station (Baker, Kortz, Conners)
  • Research associate end (Kelley, CalCOFI OPC project ended)
  • Migration to server vSurf completed

2009

  • Design visits to Ocean Institute, Dana Point (Kortz, Conners, Dovel)
  • Summer students: RPetersen (Gazetteer, HistoryDB); SWiley (Logger), JHayes (LTER IM)
  • Zooplankton Data management Workshop at SIO PACOOS/NOAA
  • DataZoo service-oriented architecture initiated
  • Education/Outreach supervision transfer Baker to Ohman (Simmons)
  • Ocean Informatics summer reading group
  • Yarmey half-time fellowship for Masters UIllinois
  • LTER All Scientists Meeting Estes Park, CO (Baker, Kortz, Conners, Millerand, Karasti, Ribes, Jackson)
  • IMC Meeting with Unit Registry Demo (Baker, Kortz, Conners)
  • CalCOFI Ocean Sites collaboration begin
  • RA begin with marine mammal data (Kelley, 1 da/week)

2008

  • Robert Thombley depart CalCOFI
  • Ocean Protection Council Grant CalCOFI (Koslow/Baker; 2008-2010-2011)
  • IOD Computational Infrastructure Support CIS Recharge Facility begins (IOD-CIS)
  • Charles Baker begin with IOD
  • DataZoo developed as resource-based architecture
  • DataZoo management interface shift from EML to XML
  • Ichthyoplankton project for database migration begins
  • IMC Meeting in Albuquerque, NM (Baker, Kortz, Conners, Yarmey)
  • Programmer/Analyst transfer to Ohman (Jensen)
  • Personnel hire closed (unsuccessful)

2007

  • IOD admin meeting to discuss new OI funding structure
  • New CalCOFI director begin (Tony Koslow)
  • HICSS paper on Information Systems and on Articulation Work
  • Baker lab move to Design Studio
  • San Jose and Ann Arbor CIP meetings and Infrastructure Roundtable
  • Prog/Analyst starts full time (Conners)
  • Developed EML & Metacat harvesting
  • DataZoo launch (PAL, CCE), Generation 2 system under SVN
  • IMC Meeting in San Jose, CA (Baker, Kortz, Conners, Yarmey)
  • Systems reconfiguration (iSurf, iOcean)
  • Programmer/Analyst hire (DJensen begin, Matlab MVP)
  • Beth Simmons move to East Coast, VA

2006

  • DataZoo Information System design begin
  • IOD/SIO meeting to discuss computational infrastructure funding
  • Science Studies summer student (Lindseth, eventlogger)
  • Expansion to second server iSurf
  • IM Team begin (Haber; Kortz, Conners)
  • IMC Meeting & ASM in Estes Park, CO (Baker, Kortz, Wanetick, Yarmey)
  • Data Meetings with SWFSC/NOAA begin

2005

  • Spring/Summer Ocean Informatics Reading Group
  • DataCat data system begin, Generation 1 system
  • Collaborative Metadata Initiative Support (L.Yarmey)
  • Web/Database Programmer hire w/SysAdmin (M.Kortz)
  • Palmer Data and Website ported from UCSB to new infrastructure UCSD/SIO/IOD/LTER
  • LTER IM Meeting in Montreal (Baker, Millerand, Yarmey, Wanetick)
  • Marine Metadata Meeting in Denver (Haber, Wanetick)
  • PAL lead Unit Registry Working Group (K.Baker, L.Yarmey, S.Haber)
  • PAL lead Community Process Working Group (K.Baker, F.Millerand)
  • Databits co-authored article: EML Lessons Learned
    Term "enactment" introduced in software development lifecycle
  • PAL Webpage relaunched (http://pallter.sio.ucsd.edu)
  • Palmer LTER site review at Palmer Station

2004

  • LTER IM Meeting in Portland (Karen, Lynn)
  • Ocean Informatics Infrastructure launched
  • UCSD/SIO/IOD iOcean installed for web&collaborative services platform
  • Disk Storage shared services expanded LTER/IOD (J.Wanetick)
  • PAL Database Programmer hire (S.Haber)
  • LTER CCE added as new site with synergistic IM
  • Marine Partnership SIO with NOAA/CalCOFI/SCCOOS
  • Ocean Informatics project (K. Baker) NSF/OPP/SBE
    (2004-2005) Organizational Informatics: Interdisciplinary Infrastructuring and Agents of Change
    Project Website

2003

  • Ocean Informatics Exchange Events begin
  • LTER IM Meeting in Seattle, WA
  • LTER All Scientists Meeting, Seattle (Karen Beth)
  • Ocean Informatics concept study (K.Baker, J.Wanetick, S.Jackson)
    Project Website
  • REU Database programmer
  • Sociotechnical study (G. Bowker, K. Baker, F. Millerand, D. Ribes) NSF/SBE
    (2003-2009) Comparative Interoperability Strategies: GEON, LTER, and Ocean Informatics
    Project Website

2002

  • LTER IM Metadata Meeting at ASU Phoenix
  • LTER IM Exec meeting at SDSC (Feb)
  • LTER EML Metadata first meeting at Phoenix (Feb)
  • LTER EML Metadata second meeting at Phoenix (Jun)
  • PAL photo galley web interface
  • LTER IM meeting at Orlando
  • PAL pc database server installation within infrastructure
  • PAL web page redesign and launched on new platform
  • PAL IM and Participatory Design study (G. Bowker, K. Baker, H. Karasti) NSF/BDEF
    (2002-2003) BioDiversity and Ecosystem Informatics
    Project Website
  • PAL collaborative work on digital collections, SDSC & UCSD Library
  • PAL CoChair SCI2002 LTER 2 Sessions/Papers Orlando
  • PAL JCDL Digital Library Meeting (Portland/Jul)
  • PAL CERN Workshop at UCSD/SIO (San Diego/Aug)

2001

  • PAL Lead PI transition (R.Smith to H.Ducklow)
  • PAL Logistics Coordinator transition (H.Quinby, VIMS)
  • PAL Relational Database Programmer hire part-time (Kevin Wu)
  • LTER IM Exec Meeting at Phoenix (April)
  • LTER IM Meeting Madison (August)
  • OPP policy change: Raytheon support for CTD technician
  • Disk Storage server upgrade
  • Disk Storage 70GB online
  • PAL webserver upgrade
    (Digital Unix2.0 alpha kern -> Sun Solaris5.7 solaris guardian)
  • International Zone Etilier-LTER Workshop France (K.Baker)
  • PAL LTER Site Description Directory Meeting at LNO
  • Digital Library collaboration w/SDSC, UCSD LIbrary and CERN
  • Digital Library for Earth Science Education Meeting (K.Baker)

2000

  • LTER All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird
  • LTER IM Exec Meeting at Albuquerque (Feb)
  • LTER IM Meeting SnowBird (August)
  • LTER LNO IM Fellowship (2 month) for project SiteDB
  • PAL CDROM produced for ice cruise LTERJUN99
  • PAL IM-EDU Partner in TEA Internship at SIO/UCSB (Swanson-Baker)
  • LTER Schoolyard Meeting hosted by PAL IM-EDU at SDSC (December)

1999

  • Palmer LTER site review at UCSB
  • LTER IM Exec Meeting at NCEAS
  • LTER IM Meeting Spokane
  • PAL Education Forum at NCEAS with IM dimension
  • PAL IM Fellowship 1 month at Network Office
  • PAL Relational Database Programmer hire part-time (Weimin Li)
  • Disk Storage 18GB online
  • Optical disk archive transitioned

1998

  • LTER DM Exec meeting at AND with partner NACSE
  • LTER DM meeting Baltimore
  • Web Gopher turned off
  • First REU data management summer student
  • PAL Infrastructure benefits from ICESS NSF Center of Excellence award
  • PAL Elected member of DataManager DataTask Committee (K.Baker)
  • PAL Field Communications satellite LES9 replacement discussions
  • PAL Support Cross Site Climate Change Synthesis Web Page
  • PAL Support Cross Site Ice Collaboration
  • PAL Support Cross Site Education Web Page from Network Office
  • PAL EASY oceanographic GIS software discussions

1997

  • PAL LTER second cycle NSF funding begins (96-02)
  • LTER All Scientists Symposium, Albuquerque
  • ESA/LTER/OBFS Information Workshop speaker
  • LTER DM meeting Univ of New Mexico
  • PAL Member of DM Climate Committee
  • CLIMSTAT/CLIMDB workshop participant
  • LTER Climate Data Harvest URL provided
  • LTER Data Catalog Harvest URL provided
  • LTER Data Catalog incorporates weather data
  • PAL web structure broadened to include gopher
  • Web forms developed for CC meeting

1996

  • LTER DM Meeting Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid
  • AWS Hugo Isldo temp probe installation
  • PAL Data policy change: OPP/NSF data criteria
  • first Palmer synthesis poster produced (1993-1996)
  • First Data Catalog using dynamic web page (cgi scripts)
  • ECOINFORMA PAL with BAS Representative (PAL IM, Tools papers)
  • Disk Storage 9GB online
  • Field storage media ZIP disk drives used in the field
  • Field data transfer via satellite LES9 weekly
  • OPP/ASA Palmer Working Group on weather (K.Baker)

1995

  • LTER Televideo Technology for CC Meeting
  • LTER DM meeting Snowbird, Utah STRATEGIC VISION, NIS
  • Electronic Field Notebook/Files online, in field
  • Cross-site PAL/MCM GIS in Limnology and Oceanography, Reno with ASLO
  • PAL lead PI rotation to Raymond Smith

1994

  • LTER DM Meeting Seattle
  • PAL Online Data Table Assessment created
  • AWS Hugo Island weather station installed
  • Logistics Coordinator appointed (C.Johnson, SIO)
  • OPP McMurdo User Working Group Member 1994-1997
  • Web capability (1990 WWW began; 1992 mosaic; 1994 netscape)
  • PAL Web Homepage (http://pal.icess.ucsb.edu)
  • Disk storage 2GB
  • Historical documentation focus initiated
  • Palmer Station Eventlog initiated

1993

  • LTER All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park
  • LTER DM Meeting Madison with ESA
  • Environmental Information Management & Analysis Symposium
  • Data Manager designated coPI
  • Online Browse created using gopher
  • LTER Data Policy drafted
  • Field documentation facilitation with electronic forms
  • Field Data Transfer via satellite explored

1992

  • LTER DM Meeting Honolulu with ESA
  • LTER DM Outreach China
  • AWS Bonaparte Point weather station installed
  • Data Manager designated (K.Baker)
  • Data Forms developed
  • Metadata online browse deployed
  • Networking Mac IP Tunnel at UCSB

1991

  • LTER DM Meeting, San Antonio with ESA (K.Baker)
  • LTER GIS Working Group Report
  • PAL Cruise/annual: PAL grid established
  • PAL Bibliography initiated
  • PAL Historical files initiated (weather)
  • PAL Cruise Eventlog initiated
  • PAL Information Manager (K. Baker)

1990

  • Second all scientists meeting, Estes Park, CO
  • New site added (PAL)
  • PAL LTER first cycle NSF funding begins (90-96)(Robin Ross Lead PI)
  • PAL Information Management Representative (J. Frew)

1989

  • Network Office established on Univ. of Washington Campus
  • DM Meeting, Canada
  • DM Databits electronic newsletter (J.Porter)

1988

  • Minimum Standard Installation (MSI) developed

1987

  • LTER Network News, first issue

1982

  • First Data Management Symposium in Illinois

1979

  • First LTER set of six sites funded (NTL,AND,CWT,KNZ,NIN,NWT)