propsective changes branch

[Chad Berkley]

Hi Peter,

I don't have any major problems with the distribution section but I do
have a few questions regarding your additions.

Do you intend to have two urls, one pointing to the actual connection
and the other to the online documentation you need to make the
connection?  I don't really understand your example url below.  Did you
mean to leave out the parameter values?

When you get the online documentation, does it have a structured
format?  In other words, how do I know what I'm going to get when I
follow that url?  

It would be helpful to me if you could provide a sample markup for, say,
an SDE connection.

Thanks,
chad



On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 11:45, Peter McCartney wrote:
> Ok, ive checked in a working set of modules under the
> EML_PROSPECTIVE_CHANGES_082602 branch. These files show:
> 
> 1) my proposed change to distribution to allow one to provide a url string
> that represents a connection rather than a discreet resource object,
> identify the url as such with the function attribute, and provide a url that
> points to online documentation for a custom schema (eg sde://hostname:port ?
> instance=&database= )
> 
> 2) my proposed changes to address the LTER IM complaints about
> protocol/project: these involved defining a new module called eml-methods
> which includes elements for quality control, sampling description and
> methodStep(s). MethodSteps includes pointers to related sofware, datsets,
> and instruments and a description which any combination of text,
> eml-protocol, or eml-citation.
> 
> methods is imported optionally into dataset, entityBase and attribute and
> any previous links to protocol is removed. 
> 
> This solution leaves eml-protocol to be used only for generic protocols that
> we wish to publish as resources. There is still a flaw here in that protocol
> also defines a methodStep elment that differs from the one in method. so the
> name should be changed or perhaps protocol should just import eml-method so
> that all it does is add the resourceBase elements.
> 
> And Matt..thanks for the tip on winmerge...it was just what i was looking
> for.
> 
> Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
> Center for Environmental Studies
> Arizona State University
> 480-965-6791 
> 
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Chad Berkley
National Center for 
Ecological Analysis 
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berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
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