[eml-dev] Differences between eml-dataTable & eml-entity

[Wade Sheldon]

David,

I'm sure others will chime in, but as another person who generates EML 
from RDBMS systems I think I can clear up your confusion.Eml is a highly 
modular set of schemas, as you've undoubtedly noticed, and eml-entity is 
the base resource type used for all eml tabular data representations. It 
is imported into the eml-dataTable schema, and can only be used as a 
stand alone spec when describing "otherEntity" structures (basically 
user-defined data representations).

So the short answer is that you want to use dataTable for SQL tables, 
view for SQL views, and storedProcedure for SP when mapping a RDBMS 
information system to EML metadata.

Regards,

Wade Sheldon
GCE-LTER Information Manager


David Poirier wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We’re developing an application that extracts EML documents from a 
> relational database. I’m curious about the differences between an 
> eml-dataTable and an eml-Entity. Any clarification would be much 
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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