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Site Flash 2004Corinna Gries and Peter McCartney After restructuring of the management database and designing of new entry applications was completed the main push over the past year was to populate the metadata portions of it. The long-term monitoring databases are documented in eml and now our main effort is to archive and document the small research datasets that were produced during the first years of CAP. Our websites and web applications were migrated from a windows server to a Linux server. Therefore, legacy applications were rewritten in jsp. In addition, the CAP website now uses Xanthoria to retrieve data in xml format from our databases and the display is based on xsl transformations. Development on our website Southwest Environmental Information Network (SEINet) has reached production stage and it is now fully integrated into the CAP website as our data catalog. Datasets, literature and protocols may be found by using the Xanthoria search engine. The search capabilities for our biological collections in SEINet were expanded. Specifically, more spatial search capabilities were added. The locality input options have been expanded and it now allows the user enter latitude and longitude for a bounding box. The application to actually draw a bounding box on an existing map as search criteria is currently being developed. The ASU GIS lab recently joined the Center for Environmental Studies and has contributed to several web programming efforts as well as the creation of eml metadata for the acquired spatial data. A new project central to CAP was initiated this spring. The North Desert Village Experiment encompasses five identical housing complexes in which landscaping will be installed according to specification that are based on the findings from our extensive survey of the metropolitan area. A comprehensive data management system for this project is currently being developed. It will accommodate and integrate biogeochemistry, biodiversity, NPP, and human behavior research. |
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