The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
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The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity |
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| KNB Home | Data | People | Informatics | Biocomplexity | Education | Software | |
| Overview |
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The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) is a national network intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research on biocomplexity. It enables the efficient discovery, access, interpretation, integration, and analysis of complex ecological data from a highly distributed set of field stations, laboratories, research sites, and individual researchers. |
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Go to our software tools page to download and find documentation for all of our software, including:
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| What's New |
| Morpho version 1.8.0 released on 8 February, 2010. See the software section for details. |
| EML version 2.1.0 released on 11 May, 2009. See the software section for details. |
| Metacat version 1.9.1 released on 22 April, 2009. See the software section for details. |
| KNB Project Foci | |
| The NSF proposal for this project describes our original plans in detail. The following sections describe some of the details of our current progress and results. | |
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This section outlines the theoretical and technical approaches being investigated in this project for managing complex ecological data and metadata. It includes an overview of the architecture of the KNB network, explains how the various infrastructure components of the KNB work together, and provides links to the descriptions of both Metacat, our flexible XML database for metadata storage, and Morpho, our data management application designed for scientists to handle their data management needs. |
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This section describes the research on the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem productivity that is being conducted as part of this project. It includes an overview of this complex relationship and an outline for approaching it using the KNB. |
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This section describes the dissemination of the computer science and informatics products of our research to potential users of our prototype network (scientists, graduate students, policy makers) in ecology and other disciplines. |
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