Update on documentation Review

[chad berkley]

I have reviewed and edited eml-dataset.xsd.  I'll move onto
eml-literature unless someone else is already editing it.  Please let me
know ASAP if you are.

chad

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:29, dblankman at lternet.edu wrote:
> 
> Quoting Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu>:
> 
> Modules New Assignments (Volunteered)
> eml-physical   Owen Eddins
> eml-project    Tim Bergsma
> eml-protocol   Tim Bergsma
> eml-literature Corinna Gries
> eml-software   Corinna Gries
> eml-coverage   Chad Berkeley
> eml-dataset    chad or Scott
> spatialRaster, spatialVector,spatialReference   Ken Ramsey(first level)
> > I'll start working on coverage.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 16:29, David Blankman wrote:
> > > EML Release Candidate 1 will be posted on knb.ecoinformatics.org by
> > the 
> > > end of today.
> > > 
> > > This release still has some unreviewed documentation. We need to have
> > 
> > > all eml-modules reviewed by Thrsday, September 19 in order to have EML
> > 
> > > Relase Candidate 2 posted on Friday, September 20.
> > > 
> > > Keep in mind that this is technical documentation, not end user 
> > > documentation. The target audience for this documentation is
> > developers 
> > > or people like the LTER information managers not ecology domain
> > scientists.
> > > 
> > > We need three kinds of help.
> > > 
> > > 1. Taking responsibility for the review of a specific module.
> > > In order to do this you should have both content expertise or, at
> > least, 
> > > content familiarity and eml/xml expertise. Some of the exisiting 
> > > documentation has references to modules that are no longer part of
> > EML, 
> > > so to be responsible you have to have spent enough time with EML to be
> > 
> > > able to catch  references to incorrect terms. Realistically the pool
> > of 
> > >  people who fill these criteria are probably people from NCEAS, CAP,
> > 
> > > NET, Scott Chapel, and probably Tim Bergsma and Ken Ramsey. In
> > addition, 
> > > a person should not be responsible for reviewing documentation that
> > s/he 
> > > has written.
> > > 
> > > 2. GIS related module documentation
> > > . The documentation of modules have been recently added to EML and 
> > > adapted from FGDC (spatialRaster, spatialVector, spatialReference) are
> > 
> > > by everyone's comments sparse and opaque. Anyone who is a GIS expert
> > is 
> > > encouraged to help in this documentation. If you are a GIS expert and
> > 
> > > would like to participate, please email David Blankman 
> > > (dblankman at lternet.edu). I am assembling a team of GIS experts to help
> > 
> > > in this process. Once I hear back from people, we can figure out how
> > to 
> > > divide this up so that the documentation review can proceed
> > efficiently 
> > > and effectively.
> > > 
> > > 3. General Content Review
> > > Anyone with content expertise, or at least content familiarity, is 
> > > encouraged to review modules for both accuracy and readability.
> > > 
> > > Responsibility Matrix:
> > > 
> > > ASSIGNED MODULES                PERSON RESPONSIBLE
> > > eml-access                            Scott Chapel 
> > > (scott.chapel at jonesctr.org)              
> > > eml-attribute                          David Blankman 
> > > (dblankman at lternet.edu)
> > > eml-constraint                        Scott Chapel
> > > eml-dataTable                        David Blankman
> > > eml-entity                              David Blankman
> > > eml                                       NCEAS
> > > 
> > > UNASSIGNED MODULES
> > > 
> > > eml-coverage
> > > eml-dataset
> > > eml-literature
> > > eml-party
> > > eml-physical
> > > eml-project
> > > eml-protocol
> > > eml-resource
> > > eml-software
> > > eml-storedProcedure (post eml-beta8 addition)
> > > eml-view (post eml-beta8 addition)
> > >  
> > > GIS RELATED MODULES (Please email David Blankman if you have GIS 
> > > expertise and want to participate.)
> > > eml-spatialRaster
> > > eml-spatialReference
> > > eml-spatialVector
> > > 
> > > People in the "Responsible pool", please list in order your preference
> > 
> > > the modules for which you want to be responsible. As soon as I have 
> > > heard from a critical mass of people, I will resend the responsibility
> > 
> > > matrix.
> > > 
> > > People who want to do general content review, please send your
> > comments 
> > > to the person who is responsible for a given module's documentation
> > review.
> > > 
> > > Thank you all in advance for whatever level of participation you
> > choose.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > David E. Blankman
> > > Database Integration Developer
> > > Long Term Ecological Research Network Office
> > > University of New Mexico
> > > 801 University, SE #104
> > > Albuquerque, NM 87106
> > > (505) 272-7346 / (505) 272-7080 FAX
> > > 
> > -- 
> > -----------------------
> > Chad Berkley
> > National Center for 
> > Ecological Analysis 
> > and Synthesis (NCEAS)
> > berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
> > -----------------------
> > 
> > 
> 
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