Test implementation of eml-based species lists for LTER

[Wade Sheldon]

Matt and James,

This week I have been making some changes to how we display taxonomic records on the web. As part of this process, I decided to spend a little time following through on a proposal I made during our last IMExec meeting to test eml as a format for dissemination of species lists within LTER. As a candidate document style I "trumped up" a species list data set containing the species list in taxonomicCoverage format, with appropriate title, abstract, keywords, project descriptors, etc. relevant to the purpose. I also included temporalCoverage information indicating the date the list was generated.

If you are interested in looking over my test implementation, you can generate various species lists in eml format using the web forms at: http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/lter/asp/db/all_species_lists.asp

I don't currently plan to maintain versioned copies of the species list (or sub-lists) in our site data catalog, so the packageID information is basically notional; however, we could certainly do so at some point if there were interest so I left it in. I am primarily throwing this out as a candidate schema for cross-site exchange of taxonomic information. We will be working on a "eml best practices" document for LTER in the next 1-2 months, and I thought it would be good to consider recommendations for documentation of non-tabular data as well as conventional tabular data sets. Exchange/submission of bibliographic citations and personnel lists are other potential uses of eml we discussed.

Comments or recommendations would be appreciated.

--Wade Sheldon, GCE
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