[eml-dev] EML access and application behavior (metacat)

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hi Jing -
I am updating the EML documentation for access. Per our discussion last 
week, I just wanted to confirm the planned behavior of metacat with 
regard to access trees in EML.

1. in EML 2.0.1, access is located at eml/dataset/access, and authors 
may also have been putting in additionalMetadata/access as well, 
accompanied by <describes>any_node_id</describes>
And you plan that metacat will
a. honor the eml/dataset/access tree (for all metadata and data) and
b. when it finds an access tree in an additionMetadata section, it will 
recognize it only if it references an id on a distribution element that 
is a descendant of dataTable  -- or is it honoring a reference to any 
distribution id (ie, res:distribution).

2. in EML 2.1.0, access will be found at eml/access and 
/eml/dataset/dataTable/distribution/physical/access
And metacat will
a. continue to honor eml/access for all metadata and data, and
b. not recognize access trees found under additionalMetadata. Does that 
mean it will ignore additionalMetadata/metadata/access trees that were 
honored in 2.0.1, or can EML authors continue to create these?

thanks -
Margaret

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Margaret O'Brien
Information Management
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER 
Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-6150

805-893-2071
mob at icess.ucsb.edu
http://sbc.lternet.edu
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