[eml-dev] Proposed revision to eml-literature module...

[Mark Servilla]

Hello EML Community,

The LTER Network Office and Santa Barbara Coastal LTER site would like 
to propose a change to the eml-literature module.  The proposed change 
is to move the "citation" element subtree currently at the top module 
level (where the cardinality is 1) to an inner and new top level module, 
"bibliography", where the cardinality of citation would be 1 to 
infinity.  The goal of this change is to better reflect management of 
publication style citation lists as opposed to a single citation for 
each eml document instance.  Note that a single citation is still very 
possible.

We have also added the "contact" subtree within the "bibliography" at 
the same level as "citation", in addition to adding "contact" within the 
actual "citation" subtree.  The first "bibliography/contact" would be 
used to denote the manager of the bibliography, where as the 
"citation/contact" would reference the manager of the actual citation. 
The following link is to the revised schema within our public CVS 
(http://cvs.lternet.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/NIS/projects/bibliography/eml-2.0.1bib/). 
  I have also attached a simple "png" view of the proposed change in 
XMLSpy graphical notation as a quick reference.

We were also discussing the merit of having the "title" element in the 
eml-resource module change from a simple element to a complex element, 
and include within the title subtree similar structure to the "section" 
and "para" elements (found within "abstract") for those more complicated 
titles that include text-based style and formatting.  We did not, 
however, modify the the test schema to include this change (at least at 
this point).

We realize that any such change to the current EML-2.0.1 standard would 
certainly break backward compatibility.  However, it may be acceptable 
if/when the next major eml release would potential have the same effect. 
  Your thoughts are most welcome on this proposed change.

Sincerely,
Mark
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Mark Servilla, Ph.D.

LTER Network Office
Department of Biology
MSC 03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

servilla at lternet.edu
Office (505) 277-2619
Cell   (505) 453-8593
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