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TERN’s licensing policy opens door on data

Schematic decision tree for the application of the TERN Data Licensing Policy Worldwide, there are moves to reform policy and practice to give people open ...
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Enabling and encouraging dataset citation: TERN’s DOI-minting service

The data deluge that we’ve experienced in most fields of scientific research over the past decade – due to the increasing availability and reliability of ...
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Data partnerships bode well for sharing government ecological datasets

Pick up any book on how to succeed in business and strong partnerships with clients are highlighted as being vital. This applies equally to TERN’s ...
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Bridging a continental data divide

Members of TERN’s Australian Supersite Network (ASN) are reaching across the Pacific to build cross-continental monitoring protocols with representatives of the National Ecological Observatory Network ...
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Coastal datasets sit together under ACEF beach umbrella

TERN’s Australian Coastal Ecosystems Facility (ACEF) is working with more than 25 data custodians to negotiate access to about 100 coastal datasets that cover the ...
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Mobile apps open up brave new world

For AusPlots Rangelands, having a mobile app has entailed scientists developing a new way of thinking about their data, and therefore the way they do ...
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AusCover part of global network of volunteers making better maps

AusCover, the remote-sensing facility of TERN, is implementing an online system to help field experts and citizen scientists to validate the digital maps produced from satellite ...
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Eclipsed and confused, dawn choristers to be taped for the record

A golden whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis) in song … just one of many bird species whose singing behaviour may be influenced by the total eclipse on ...
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Managing data volume and diversity: the Australian Supersite Network data portal

TERN’s Australian Supersite Network (ASN) collects intensive ecological and biophysical datasets at 10 supersites spread across Australia, in different climate zones and over a wide ...
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Data from the treasure trove of ecology soon at your fingertips

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace are the most famous Western observers of nature we know. Researchers like them have been collecting data on plants and ...
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