EML

[Peter McCartney]

We've looked at ESML. I think EML easily accomodates everything in the
collection schema for ESML - its really a very lightweight format for the
basic descriptive and discovery information. The syntactical section is a
bit un-intuitive and very specific to geospatial physical file formats as I
recall. EML Metadata could be easily output to ESML if ESML-based
clearinghouses start to appear. As is proving to be the case with others
standards, going the other way is likely to produce an incomplete EML
description.

Ill see if we can put together some translation XSLs for ESML. They do,
after all, have an editor that is released, so we might potentially have
sources of ESML metadata that we want to import into EML.

Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
Center for Environmental-Studies
Arizona State University
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Michener [mailto:wmichene at lternet.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:05 PM
To: Deana Pennington
Cc: Peter McCartney; Matt Jones
Subject: Re: EML


Thanks Deana. This is good to know.  I am forwarding this to Matt Jones as
well.

Deana Pennington wrote:

> Bill and Peter,
>
> Thought you might be interested in this:
>
> http://esml.itsc.uah.edu/index2.html
>
> Earth Science Metadata Language (ESML), specifically for exchange of 
> spatial data. Apparently it is the standard NASA has gone with.  If we 
> are going to try to provide a generic means of integrating different 
> types of spatial data (e.g. soil maps with MODIS data), we may want to 
> ensure that EML is consistent with ESML.
>
> Deana
>
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>
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