Notes from Breakout Group
Developing SAPOZEO infrastructure
Breakout group participants: Franciel Azpurua-Linares, Milton Ward, Chris Hodge, Chuck Garten, Jake Weltzin
It is clear that continued
activities of SAPOZEO will need an adequate systems for intra-group
communication, and to facilitate linkages to other regional NEON groups and the
national NEON infrastructure. We need to catlog our regional expertise, and it
must be available to a writing group in short order
Identified Goal: Provide an accessible, searchable
database with information about facilities in the region, including people,
field sites, analytical labs, and collections.
Purpose: This information would be used to
prepare a prospectus from the SAPOZEO region for an observatory. We realized that the CALEON web page,
though pretty, didnŐt really have the information we needed.
We need to start by
improving/creating information systems databases, but we donŐt have much timeÉ
Requirements:
Flexibility (e.g., additions
of cells/info)
Accessibility (and
sortability)
Basic elements (and build
from there)
Minimal additional work (no
reinvent; ephemeral nature)
Approach: Have the COREO database XML-pushed to a
SAPOZEO database; database will be modified by queries to contact people, and
then displayed on the SAPOZEO webpage.
Move SAPOZEO web page to
sunsite
Listserve (announce, working
groups)
List of participants (similar
to CENTRUS page)
Wicki capabilities for
proposal writingÉ
Tasks might include
1. Develop/construct a web-based information system to document/organize the regions people/facilties/networks/capabilities.
A) Define the content
B) Build the system
We then discussed various
approaches that we could take to developing our web-presence, including updates
to the web-page, building a list-serve, and coordinating with the COREO
database manager to build our database for the region.