The document summarizes discussions from Day 2 of the 2011 TERN Symposium. It describes presentations on TERN facility portals and 2010 Round 2 funding projects. It also summarizes discussions on TERN's role in environmental data collection, storage and distribution. The vision for TERN portals is to establish long-term ecosystem science as a priority, encourage long-term data management practices, and develop a network of long-term researchers. Strategies include promoting open access to data and developing robust cyberinfrastructure. The proposed portal architecture includes facility-specific and TERN-wide portals using common standards. Status updates indicate prototypes from four facilities with the TERN portal prototype available in late 2011.

1. Sustaining Long Term Ecosystem Research and Infrastructure2011 TERN Symposium - Day 2

2. Session 1 TERN Facility portals Presentation of portals for AusCover, Ozflux, Supersites, ACEAS, Eco-informatics, Coasts Morning tea Discussion session

3. 2010 Round 2 funding Workshop Transformational change of regional landscapes: navigating planetary limits and resource constraints over the next five decades (Meyer: SA) Working Groups Determining precise estimates of modern biodiversity extinction rates (Bradshaw: SA) A cup half full? Thresholds and regime shifts in Australian freshwater ecosystems (Capon: QLD) Pyrogeography: Integrating and evaluating existing models of Australian fire regimes to predict climate change impacts (Murphy: TAS). Improving long-term predictions of carbon and nutrient dynamics in Australia's agroecosystems: assimilation of datasets from long-term research sites for verification of biophysical models of vegetation and soil changes (Henry: QLD) Extinction risks of frogs under climate change (Keith: NSW)

4. 2010 Round 2 funding Workshop Transformational change of regional landscapes: navigating planetary limits and resource constraints over the next five decades (Meyer: SA) Working Groups Determining precise estimates of modern biodiversity extinction rates (Bradshaw: SA) A cup half full? Thresholds and regime shifts in Australian freshwater ecosystems (Capon: QLD) Pyrogeography: Integrating and evaluating existing models of Australian fire regimes to predict climate change impacts (Murphy: TAS). Improving long-term predictions of carbon and nutrient dynamics in Australia's agroecosystems: assimilation of datasets from long-term research sites for verification of biophysical models of vegetation and soil changes (Henry: QLD) Extinction risks of frogs under climate change (Keith: NSW) Next round opens May 16th. Notification on ACEAS web site www.aceas.org.au

5. TERN Portals:(1) TERN’s context within the research data environment (2)The vision for the TERN portal(s)2011 TERN Symposium

6. (1) TERN’s context within the research data environment Relationship to existing data collection & distribution Data definition(s)? Open access data sets Future needs for data collection and integration

11. Data set definition(s)? A description of the research question(s) a description of the context of the field experiment a description of the experimental set-up report(s) containing raw measurementdata description of methods and script(s) of algorithms used to process the data report(s) containing processed data report(s) containing analysis and published results (if any)

12. Open access (OA) data sets OA data is not common good. It is owned by the researchers who generated the data. Access to OA data is not unrestricted. Access to data is done via a gatekeeper who can restrict access to data sets depending on need and application. Use of OA data is not unconditional. Users of the TERN data have to abide by clearly stated and enforceable rules. OA data is not cost-free. TERN funds the installation and ongoing upkeep of infrastructure that is critical to the collection, storage, dissemination and re-use of the data.

13. TERN – Data Collection and Portal Structures

19. Proposed Architecture for TERN’s Portals TERN Facility portals SCIENCE Data are peer-reviewed Data stored for disciplinary research and analysis TECHNOLOGY Specialist metadata standards Domain-specific tools PEOPLE Local portal for a group of researchers The portal is the result of a partnership TERN-wide portal SCIENCE Data are reviewed by experts Data stored as a resource for data synthesis and eScience TECHNOLOGY Generalist m’data standards Cross-disciplinary tools PEOPLE Central gateway for the ecosystem research community The portal is the result of a collaboration

26. TERN Portals:(1) TERN’s context within the research data environment (2)The vision for the TERN portal(s)2011 TERN Symposium