Information Management Trends and Transitions CWT and beyond John F. Chamblee, Ph.D., CWT IM Coweeta LTER Winter Meeting, 11 Jul. 2013 Trends in Data Openness and Availability NSF Memo regarding Data Management Plans: January 18, 2011 (revised guidelines from BIO, 2/20/2013) Trends in Data Openness and Availability Executive Order 13571: April 27, 2011 Trends in Data Openness and Availability Executive Memorandum, Building a 21 st Century Digital Government : May 22, 2012 Today, the CIO is releasing that strategy, entitled "Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People" (Strategy), which provides agencies with a 12-month roadmap that focuses on several priority areas. The Strategy will enable more efficient and coordinated digital service delivery by requiring agencies to establish specific, measurable goals for delivering better digital services; encouraging agencies to deliver information in new ways that fully utilize the power and potential of mobile and web-based technologies; ensuring the safe and secure delivery and use of digital services to protect information and privacy; requiring agencies to establish central online resources for outside developers and to adopt new standards for making applicable Government information open and machine- readable by default; Data Availability is my WHOLE JOB AN LTER SITES IT STACK Structured Data from CWT LTERPeople-readable Machine-readablehttps://portal.lternet.edu/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-cwt Dark data and data submission Some things never change. Annual reporting and the new private site: The end of the beginning For now, additional changes will mean additional functionality: Centralized service of structured data from LTER techs. Tools to upload resources to share privately or with the public. A single password for all CWT LTER web portals. Authentication for graduate students. Podcast tutorials for data post-processing and sensor mgmt. The end of the beginning LTER is a learning enterprise, so we are never finished. .but we are going to take a breath. The end of the beginning