[eml-dev] EML standard registration with the EPA's Environmental Data registry

[Inigo San Gil]

EML community:

A while ago I received a request to register the EML standard with 
EPA's  Environmental Data registry (EDR). This job consist of filling 
out an Excel spreadsheet with all sort of details about EML. The 
'hardest' part of this spreadsheet is the "Metadata" section, where one 
is supposed to describe all parts of the standard. After reading the 
directions, and contacting some people at the EPA, I copied the EDR's 
interpretation of the Biological Data Profile. That is, I looked how 
these guys did it, and decided to adopt their approach as a reasonable 
strategy to do this

After some perl scripting, I produced the attached excel document named 
EDR_EML.xls. For guidance (metadata), please look at the attached EDR 
BDP elements.xls, where examples and instructions are included. 
Basically, I used the EML schema to populate the appropriate columns. 
Note that there is not any hand-editing, and there is little QA/QC after 
the perl code parsed the schema correctly, I want to get an idea of 
whether you are OK with the approach.

Feel free to correct, improve, or suggest changes. It would be desirable 
to submit a week from now, so please send me or send to eml-dev your 
input before then.

Thanks!
Inigo
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