EML questions

[James W Brunt]

Perhaps we should get all the people that have done, are doing, or are 
planning to do this together.

James

Xiaoping Wang wrote:
> Dear Matt,
> 
> I am currently magging our FGDC metadata into EML metadata, and I come 
> up with the following questions about the use of EML schemas 
> (particularly the dataset schema).  I need you help to resolve these 
> problems.
> 
> 1. For the Temporal Coverage, how to describe multiple points in time 
> (e.g. 1968, 1978, 1986, 1999, 2004)?  Based on EML specification, 
> singleDateTime is used to describe single point in time and rangeOfDates 
> is used to describe range of dates.
> 
> 2. For the rangeOfDates, the domain of both beginDate <#beginDate> and 
> endDate is date.  For some of our date ranges, however, we only know the 
> beginDate but not the endDate because the projects have not completed 
> yet.  For now, we are using 8888 for endDate to represent this 
> situation.  I am just wondering if you can suggest a better way to 
> handle this kind of situation. <#endDate>
> 
> 3. FGDC has a field called "Metadata Date" to reference the date that 
> the metadata were created or last updated.  How can I map this 
> inforamtion into EML?  It seems to me that all "date" elements are 
> associated with the dataset itself (or data sources), but not the 
> metadata records.
> 
> Thank you very much for your kind assistance!
> 
> Xiaoping Wang
> 
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James W. Brunt
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Long Term Ecological Research Network Office
Department of Biology MSC03 2020
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