EML index file

[Matt Jones]

Aaron,

Thanks -- we'll fix that on the next EML revision that is needed, which 
might be a while.

I think it would be wonderful if Ecological Archives were to support 
EML2 for the data submitted there.  It is much richer than using HTML 
for the metadata.  The problem of course is that people would need an 
easy to use interface for generating the metadata.  I've talked a bit 
with Bill Michener about the possibility of making Morpho, or a modified 
version of Morpho, available for submitting Ecological Archives data. 
Hopefully we should be able to move ahead with something like that 
sooner rather than later.  Any ideas on how to make promote an idea like 
that within the ESA?

Matt

Aaron M Ellison wrote:
> Hi - Emery Boose at the Harvard Forest has passed on to me the url for the
> new EML. It looks really great and I hope that Ecological Archives moves
> towards adopting it for use in all the archived datasets there.
> 
> One minor pedantic point. In going through the specification
> (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/eml-2.0.0/index.html) I note
> that in virtually all cases, "it's" is used when "its" (no apostrophe)
> should be used (the latter is the possessive).
> 
> Good luck with the implementation of EML throughout the ecological world.
> 
> Aaron Ellison
> 
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