[eml-dev] Doubts about EML

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, Kepler intends to support all of the data linking features that
are present in EML.  Right now it mainly supports links to data through
the online URL element, but we intend to support 'inline' data as well.
  Also, I forget how many different physical formats our parser can
accomodate -- we intend to support everything that EML supports in its
description, but I think the parser in Kepler is more limited for the
time being. Our intention is that if someone takes the time to develop
an good EML document for their data, then the data can easily be used
within Kepler.

Your format looks pretty good with the caveat that you seem to have
double line returns as Peter mentioned, and of course you've only used
the physical module, not the whole EML document tree.

Matt

Peter McCartney wrote:
> This looks right to me, assuming that the extra line feeds between records is an artifact of formatting for the email.
> 
> I would say kepler is the closest thing yet to a software package that is capable of handling embedded data inside an eml document, and it is still quite experimental. There are probably some local custom applications that are also doing it. As I said before, at ASU, weve been going with either a two part communcation where we request the eml then request the data based on the connection information, or a package where we put the data files and eml in one zip file and just put a relative path (ie just the filename) in the url field. 
> 
> Peter McCartney(peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
> International Institute for Sustainability
> Arizona State University
> 480-965-6791
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: eml-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org 
>>[mailto:eml-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Rafael Hideo Kawakami
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:04 AM
>>To: eml-dev at ecoinformatics.org
>>Subject: [eml-dev] Doubts about EML
>>
>>
>>Thanks for the answers. I thought of something like this:
>>
>> 
>>
>><?xml version="1.0"?>
>>
>><phys:physical>
>>
>> 
>>
>>  <objectName>data.txt</objectName>
>>
>> 
>>
>>  <dataFormat>
>>
>>    <textFormat>
>>
>>      <numHeaderLines>1</numHeaderLines>
>>
>>      <recordDelimiter>#x0A</recordDelimiter>
>>
>>      <attributeOrientation>column</attributeOrientation>
>>
>>      <simpleDelimited>
>>
>>          <fieldDelimiter>#x20</fieldDelimiter>
>>
>>      </simpleDelimited>
>>
>>    </textFormat>
>>
>>  </dataFormat>
>>
>> 
>>
>>  <distribution>
>>
>>    <inline>date  time  temperature
>>
>>26/02/2005 00:00 19.2  
>>
>>26/02/2005 00:30 19.4  
>>
>>26/02/2005 01:00 20.2  
>>
>><!-- there are thousands of entries..-->
>>
>>    </inline>
>>
>>  </distribution>
>>
>></phys:physical>
>>
>> 
>>
>>Or even put the data inside XML tags ( <date><time><value>).
>>
>> 
>>
>>Is it correct?
>>
>> 
>>
>>And the question that remains. is it possible for eml 
>>compliant systems (like kepler) to use it? The whole idea of 
>>using a standard is to, in the future, integrate this work 
>>with others.
>>
>> 
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Rafael Hideo Kawakami
>>
>>São Paulo University
>>
>>rafael.kawakami at poli.usp.br 
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