EMl question

[Peter McCartney]

samplingDescription is specifically for characterising the sampling
design from a more statistical rather than procedural perspective. for
example, "A 10% sample was obtained through random selection of 1 m2
plots." <methodStep><description> allows other methodological
information beyond that related to sampling - preparation, instruments,
procedures, etc. The repeatable methodStep element lets you describe
your procedures in a sequential manner. 
 
The idea was to isolate the information describing the spatial, temporal
(and other) contexts of the data such that decisions about rescaling the
data could be supported. unfortunately, many people dont think of the
sampling independently from the other aspects of methods and so now that
we have been working on some knowledge based scaling, we are finding
this section not very well designed.
 
 
Peter McCartney(peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
International Institute for Sustainability
Arizona State University
480-965-6791

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[mailto:eml-dev-admin at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Kristin
Vanderbilt
	Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:03 PM
	To: eml-dev at ecoinformatics.org
	Subject: EMl question
	
	
	Hi,
	 
	I've been looking at lots of examples of EML documents, the EML
Best Practices document, and the EML Handbook, and I still don't
understand what the distinction is between
<dataset><methods><methodStep><description> and 
<dataset><methods><sampling><samplingDescription>.
 
How does the information differ that gets entered for these two tags?
 
Thank you,
 
Kristin Vanderbilt

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