Keyword types in EML

[Matt Jones]

Rudolf,

I was aware of this problem, but I think that taxonomic keywords should 
go in the field designed for them in the taxonomic coverage module, 
sepcifically "keywtax".  This is adopted from NBII. NBII made a new 
keyword field for taxonomic keywords because FGDC would not allow them 
to extend the domain of the keyword field.  We followed suit, which will 
make translation to the other standards easier.  Sooo, is there a reason 
you can't use the keywtax field for taxonomic keywords?

Matt

Rudolf Nottrott, NCEAS wrote:

> Matt, and DEVers, 
> 
> We designed the NRS registry entry form with keyword types of 
> 
> none, theme, taxonomic, discipline, place, stratum and temporal
> 
> NRS has used the form with types like that so far, and the OBFS form has
> the same types.
> 
> The present EML standard, however, has only 
> 
> theme, place, stratum and temporal
> 
> I'm ok changing the existing NRS keyword type list, but I do think we need
> to keep at least the type taxonomic.  This is the most common keyword I
> have encountered in the first 15 entries we received.
> 
> What do you think.
> 
> Rudolf
>  
> 
> 
>>Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:32:25 -0900
>>From: Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu>
>>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+)
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> Gecko/20020117
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>>To: "Rudolf Nottrott, NCEAS" <RNottrott at UCNRS.org>
>>Subject: Re: nrsadmin account
>>
>>Hi Rudolf,
>>
>>Actually, no.  The problem is that the keyword types that you have in 
>>the web form are not valid in eml.  The only allowed values according to 
>>EML for the keywordType attribute are "place", "stratum", "temporal", 
>>and "theme".  We need to eliminate the others from the web form.
>>
>>Matt
>>
>>Rudolf Nottrott, NCEAS wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Matt, 
>>>
>>>To test your changes I have tried a real entry (one that had been entered
>>>previously without problems).  I got an error
>>>
>>>Processing error. Attribute "keywordType" with value "discipline" must have
>>>a value from the list "(place|stratum|temporal|theme)". 
>>>
>>>This was apparently caused by the keyword "Invasion Ecology", entered as
>>>type "discipline".  I suspect that somehow deleted the type "discipline"
>>>was dropped in the perl processing (perhaps an array or hash problem).
>>>
>>>Rudolf
>>>
>>>


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