The Sacramento River Metadata Library is designed so that stakeholders and researchers can easily find proposed, ongoing, and past projects and studies that affect the Sacramento River. This project is supported by The Nature Conservancy's Sacramento River Project office in order to improve science and save time, money and other resources.

Through its interactive web application, researchers can enter information about their work into an on-line database that meets federal and state standards for metadata. Metadata allows everyone to more easily find what they are searching for. This information will be organized into catalogs, which are subgroups or metadata records organized around a specific subject or the needs of a particular organization. The Monitoring and Research Metadata Catalog is the first of many such catalogs.

This project is powered by public-domain, open source software including Zope, MySQL, Python, Apache server, and the FreeBSD operating system. The goal is to create a set of tools with clear documentation that can be freely used in other watersheds and projects for similar purposes.

The links on the right provide access to the web interface for browsing, entering, and editing the monitoring and research projects.

This project concept was developed by Wolf and Associates for The Nature Conservancy Sacramento River Project. The database, Zope application code, and User interface were implemented by David Siedband.

Please send comments and suggestions about these documents to David Siedband at
david@wolfandassociates.com.

We are interested to hear about your experiences using our tools for other projects. Thank you.

Project Goals, Objectives, and Strategies

Before you can enter or change data, you must select a user name and password. Unless an organization or person name is already entered, you must enter data in the following order: first (1)enter any new organizations that are not yet listed, next (2)enter or update data for individuals associated with your project, and finally (3)enter project information and upload documents.

Definitions of the fields are provided on the data entry pages to clarify their meanings.