[eml-dev] LTER All Scientsits Meeting (ASM) - Next phases of development for Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hi eml-dev
here is the abstract of the ASM working group on EML development. If you 
have any comments, please make them soon. Hope to see you there!
Margaret


title:
Next phases of development for Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

type:
product-oriented

abstract:
The adoption of the Ecological Metadata Language specification (EML) has 
been key to building network synthesis architectures which are based on 
high-quality standardized metadata.  Several scientific groups such as 
the Genomics Standards Consortium, the LTER GIS community and the NEON 
network plan to work further with EML either to directly describe data 
or to augment specific data collections. Additionally, semantic 
approaches for data description are emerging, and EML should achieve 
compatibility with these.  This working group will provide a discussion 
forum those interested in EML development. Topics include (but are not 
limited to) compatibility with other markup languages either by 
cross-walk or integration, possible schema changes to facilitate data 
descriptions and/or semantic annotations, and the use of EML's modules 
for more atomic descriptions or for collections of resources.

workshop resources:
http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/
http://www.neoninc.org/sites/default/files/NEON_Data_Product_Concept_and_Production_Plan.Mar2009_0.pdf
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/omi.2008.0015
http://sonet.ecoinformatics.org/
http://semtools.ecoinformatics.org/


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Margaret O'Brien
Santa Barbara Coastal-LTER Data Management
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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