Designing an infrastructure for heterogeneity in ecosystem data, collaborators and organizations

This paper describes the proposal to identify models for the design of information protocols and procedures within the Long-Term Ecological Research community that take account of the working practices of all the participants involved in the varied aspects of information processing.

Abstract

To develop robust datasets for long-term re-use, new approaches are needed that incorporate relevant facets of organizational culture in their description. Early ethnographic research points to the importance of holding narrative accounts of data use alongside formal metadata structures. We describe our proposal to identify models for the design of information protocols and procedures within the Long-Term Ecological Research community that take account of the working practices of all the participants involved in the varied aspects of information processing.* 2.