EML discussion and conference call

[Ken Ramsey]

Matt,

I am sorry I have not replied to the email discussions or submitted the
example of why I believe that people (researchers, technicians,
information managers, and other staff) are a valuable resource and
should (in my opinion) be considered a resource at the same level as
protocol, dataset, and citations.

There are 2 reasons for my inaction, the first is that I have other
responsibilities that have been taking up the majority of my time, such
as server crashes and responding to researchers needs. The second reason
is that, quite frankly, I do not enjoy the manner in which your team
seems to operate. By his I mean that your team seems to be tied so
closely with the project that you do not seem to be open to change and I
do not like to operate in that mode; where I feel I must argue every
point or issue I would like EML to address. I also do not like that
after being told by Mark Schildauer to email eml_dev with the issues
from the last LTER EML Workshop only to have them apparently ignored. I
am sorry, but I do not have time to populate the bug list at this time.

I appreciate the opportunity to participate in the workshops and
conference call. I look forward to the release of EML 2 and will use
what I can from the final product. However, like I stated in my last
email to eml_dev I will have the mapping and querying application
developed as much as possible to EML. If you cannot support storing
connection information in EML, I will have no other choice than to have
the application developed directly to our RDBMS schema.

I will join the conference call next week (using Groove) with the hope
of being able to contribute.

Ken

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Ken Ramsey
Data Manager
Jornada Basin LTER Project
New Mexico State University
Wooton Hall, room 209
Knox Street and Frenger
Box 30003, MSC 3JER
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505)646-7918 (office)
(505)646-5665 (fax)
keramsey at nmsu.edu