eml-project

[Matt Jones]

Hi Dan,

Yes, these fields were moved.  The project 'studyAreaDescription' now 
contains the coverage for the project, including spatial, taxonomic, and 
temporal coverage.  It seems to me that we could have chosen a better 
name for the element because the 'Area' is not all that is being 
described, but I think the information should stay where it is.  From 
the spec, the description of the field clearly includes all of the 
coverage types:

"The studyAreaDescription field [...] can include descriptions of the 
geographic, temporal, and taxonomic coverage of the research location [...]"

Matt

Dan Higgins wrote:
> Matt,
> 
>    In working on the emlbeta6 to eml2 conversion of the project module, 
> I note the following. The beta6 version of project has temporalCoverage 
> and geographicCoverage elements directly under the 'researchProject' 
> element node. In EML2, all the converage elements have been moved down 
> the hiererarchy to below the studyAreaDescription element. It seems to 
> me that the temporalCoverage is a property of the project (not the 
> studyArea) and should be directly under the project element  (as it is 
> in beta6), but the geographicCoverage is a property of the studyArea and 
> is in the correct position in eml2. Is this an artifact of reusing the 
> coverage module with its three coverage elements? Should we split the 
> locations of the different coverage elements ?
> 
> Dan
>