[eml-dev] The EML Schema and use of EML in generale

[Matt Jones]

Hi Dirk,

You can download a zip file containing all of the eml schemas and the
specification document and other documentation here:

 http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/

EML is able to wrap a data set itself.  You can do this by placing the
data inside of an 'inline' element in the distribution section of the
document.  Textual data (e.g., CSV) can be embedded directly, while
binary data would need to be encoded to make it valid XML content
(e.g., by MIME encoding the data) before embedding it.  Here's an
example EML dataset that uses this technique to embed the data inline
in the EML document:
  http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat/knb-lter-cdr.329066.2

Hope this helps,

Matt

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Dirk Fleischer<dfleischer at ifm-geomar.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a data manager at the IFM-GEOMAR in northern Germany and I have been
> asked from a group of ecologists to get in contact with ecoinformatics,
> while you provide ecological data / experimental data. They are
> interested in sharing their experimental data via your platform, but do
> not want to do the structuring work.
>
> I try to get into EML right now and I have two questions right away.
>
> First: Where can I actually look up the EML Schema file you have, it
> seams to be impossible to get it by a http 'get'.
>
> Second: Is EML with its structure actually capable to transport data. I
> have seen that it is possible to describe a datatable with attributes
> and so on, but is it possible to wrap the table into the EML
> description? The ISO structure is only a metadata description, but it is
> impossible to store data in the ISO, EML seams to be more advanced in
> this context.
>
> Cheers from Germany
>
> Dirk Fleischer
>
>



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