EML metadata

[Matt Jones]

Hi Cheryl,

As I mentioned in my earlier email, you can download LTER metadata as 
well as OBFS and NRS metadata from the KNB portal.  The portal provides 
a simple search facility, and a programming API.  Here's an example of 
an LTER dataset metadata in HTML format:

http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/servlet/metacat?action=read&qformat=knb&docid=knb-lter-mcm-limndoc.1.1

and you can download the same metadata in EML's XML format:

http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/servlet/metacat?action=read&qformat=xml&docid=knb-lter-mcm-limndoc.1.1

We have two people at the LTER Network office working on harvesting 
current metadata from all sites and putting that information in the KNB 
portal.  I am hoping they will be going live with several sites soon.  I 
think it is the best place for you to try to get current metadata from 
the LTER program.

We have an XSL stylesheet written that takes EML metadata and converts 
it to NBII BDP metadata if that is useful to you. The most recent 
version is available from CVS, and is currently version 1.21, available 
here:
http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/eml/lib/eml2tonbii/eml2tonbii.xsl?rev=1.21&content-type=text/xml

Let me know if we can help with accesing the portal programatically (we 
have several utility libraries available).

Matt


solomon at gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am funded by the Biological Resources Division and work on the NASA 
> Global Change Master Directory.  I am interested in replacing old LTER 
> metadata in both directories by taking advantage of EML and stylesheets to 
> go between EML and the Biological Data Profile (BDP) and EML and the NASA 
> Directory Interchange Format (DIF).
> 
> I would be interested in downloading any metadata that is available from 
> any LTER site.  Thanks very much.
>  
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
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