[Bug 365] - Eml documentation for Seminars & LTER sites

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jones at nceas.ucsb.edu changed:

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                   |jones at nceas.ucsb.edu,       |
                   |jbrunt at lternet.edu,         |
                   |schild at nceas.ucsb.edu       |



------- Additional Comments From jones at nceas.ucsb.edu  2002-10-01 12:59 -------
We agreed during the conference call that this would best be a "Primer" sort of
document that systematically builds up an eml dataset document, explaining why
each section is needed as one proceeds.  First you might start with just a
dataset with a id/title/creator, explain it, and then add in an entity with its
attributes, and explain it (showing the new parts of the XML in a highlighted
color like red), and then keep adding modules (coverage, project, protocol,
methods, etc), explaining each addition as we proceed.  Ideally this would be
distributed with the EML 2.0.0 release, but if that schedule can't be met, then
we could just link it into the EML web site when it is ready.  Chris suggested
that maybe the eml should be represented as a tree diagram of blocks rather than
as XML for understandability for end users, but there's probably a need for both.