The recently redesigned ARM Climate Research Facility website has become a bit more user-friendly.
Visitors to the “Submit a Publication” page no longer have to type in a publication’s journal, article name, or the author names. All they need is a digital object identifier (DOI), and those fields will auto-populate with the information.
Min Liang, an advanced application engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, completed the project with intern Austin Borger.
“Using the DOI, we will search online and retrieve all the information for users, and that’s it,” Liang says.
Liang estimates that there are 4,000 journal articles in the publications database. He and Borger found more than 100 duplicate articles in the database, which they were able to remove, as they worked on this web project from August to December 2016. It is also still connected to the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program website, so one submission will cover both ARM and ASR.
“Using this new form to get data will ensure our data will be more accurate,” Liang says. “When people type, they’ll always have typos, so it’s much, much easier.”
The new submission form will also save ARM users time!
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The ARM Climate Research Facility is a national scientific user facility funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The ARM Facility is operated by nine Department of Energy national laboratories, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, which manages the External Data Center.