[ecoinfo] metadata servers for research groups in Australia

[rohan sadler]

Hi All,

I do not know where the best place to start this inquiry is, so I am 
starting here!!

I am looking for an ecological metadata solution for our lab, the 
Ecosystems Research Group at the University of Western Australia (UWA). 
Our lab is fairly independent from the rest of the faculty structure and 
we have always looked after ourselves so as not to be dependent on UWA's 
infrastructure to meet our needs, which are specialised.

I am in love with the metadata services LTER provides in the USA, and we 
do not have a similar system set up in Australia. I am aware of Morpho 
and KNB (I attended the ecoinformatics workshop at this year's ESA 
conference in Portland, Oregon). An ideal solution for us would be to 
have our metadata hosted on a less open site, say LTER, in the USA and 
have permission from Australia to update and upload our metadata pages. 
It is important for us, as a lab, to view these documents over the web, 
and have links to them from our own web sites at UWA.

Can anyone provide me with information that may help me in pursuing this 
matter?

Kind Regards
Rohan Sadler



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PhD Candidate
Ecosystems Research Group,
School of Plant Biology M090
The University of Western Australia
30 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, 6009, Australia

    0433 192 600  (mob)
+61 8 6499 7914  (ph)
+61 8 6488 7925  (fax)
rsadler at cyllene.uwa.edu.au