[eml-dev] [Fwd: RE: Report from Metacat Harvester: Thu Nov 10 10:27:27 MST 2005]

[Peter McCartney]

I believe this would be a backward compatible change, so I recommend we
do it.


Peter McCartney(peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
International Institute for Sustainability
Arizona State University
480-965-6791


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> [mailto:eml-dev-bounces at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Matt Jones
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:06 AM
> To: Wade Sheldon
> Cc: eml-dev at ecoinformatics.org
> Subject: Re: [eml-dev] [Fwd: RE: Report from Metacat 
> Harvester: Thu Nov 10 10:27:27 MST 2005]
> 
> 
> As with Peter, I don't think there was an explicit rationale 
> for using 
> decimal.  And I also don't think people realized this would 
> rule out the 
> use of scientific notation.  This probably should be changed. 
>  We also 
> migh consider reviewing the data types of other fields to be sure the 
> problem doesn't exist in other places as well.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Wade Sheldon wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I have a question: what was the rationale for setting the 
> xml-schema 
> > datatype for 
> ../attribute/measurementScale/ratio/numericDomain/bounds 
> > in EML as xs:decimal instead of xs:float? I recently encountered 
> > validation problems when creating metadata for data tables from 
> > radioisotope studies that included very large maximum 
> bounds for some 
> > attributes (in the 10^6-10^7 range), and it turned out that 
> display of 
> > these bounds in scientific notation was the problem.
> > 
> > I altered my code to force bounds to be displayed in 
> decimal notation 
> > as a work-around, but this schema rule seems unnecessarily 
> strict to 
> > me. Besides, ruling out scientific notation for numeric fields can 
> > also require metadata creators to include unrealistic numbers of 
> > significant digits.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Wade Sheldon
> > 
> > 
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> > Wade M. Sheldon
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> > Marine Programs University of Georgia
> > Athens, GA 30602-3636
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