Goals and Objectives
To provide a repository of
research, publications, and data, and make this information available to
researchers, students, and the public.
To safeguard and archive research,
publications, and data for future generations of scientists.
To provide a web-based framework
that allows users to successfully and efficiently navigate their way to
the information they seek.
To provide an open-sourced, standards-based method of ensuring that
research, publications, and data will be accessible far into the future.
To provide an example of real-world solutions-based methods for gathering,
storing, and serving research, publications, and data.
Philosophy regarding hardware/software/data structures: Our philosophy is grounded in a commitment to provide hardware and software solutions that are scalable, cost-effective, standardized, open-source, and most of all, amenable to real-world solutions. We are a working research program, funded by taxpayers, and we take our commitment to both our researchers and the public very seriously.
Practical Application of the Coweeta LTER IM Philosophy:
We work with standards...to participate in the worldwide community.
We
work with open-source...to connect to the worldwide community.
We are obsessed with fine-tuning the navigation of the Coweeta LTER web
site. Coweeta LTER's website warehouses over fifty thousand files,
over 1000 thousand publications, and hundreds of thousands of lines of
data. The balance between providing too much information and too
little can be a challenge, but our commitment is to find this balance.