Filling information management gaps of forest dynamics plot databases using ecological metadata language and a scientific workflow system

The study of forest dynamics plots began in the 1970s. A great deal of plot data accumulated through censuses at each site. The wealth of these datasets presents challenges in information management for researchers. Therefore, a purposely designed workshop for forest dynamics plot data management was held on June 15∼19, 2009 at Lienhuachih Research Center of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute. This paper describes preliminary results of the workshop that produced an integrated information management system. This framework attempts to facilitate the effective use of fully documented data archives for data discovery, access, retrieval, analysis, and integration. Results from our work include the Fushan and Leinhuachih databases based on the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) structure in a local MySQL server, an authentication interface, a metadata query web page, and 2 workflows.

森林動態樣區研究起於1970年代，迄今各樣地與各次調查已累積相當豐富的原始資料，對研究人 員而言這些龐大的資料集也呈現出資料管理的挑戰。為協助森林動態樣區資訊管理，2009年6月15~19 日期間在林業試驗所蓮華池研究中心舉辦了一場研習會，本文為研習會中經討論後設計的一個森林動 態樣區整合性的資訊管理架構及測試之初步結果。此架構主要功能是為協助森林動態樣區資料完整的 紀錄與倉儲，並能在倉儲後有效的提供查詢、取用與分析整合。依此架構，我們將福山及蓮華池森林 動態樣區資料庫按美國熱帶森林科學中心(Center for Tropical Forest Science)的規範重建在本地端，此 資料庫需認證方能取得原始資料，但可以查詢到此兩動態樣區的其他基本資料，這些基本資料是透過 生態後設資料語言(Ecological Metadata Language)所建立的，最後我們以福山及蓮華池之資料，使用 科學工作流程系統測試了整個資訊管理系統。

Abstract in English and Chinese; paper in English only.