[eml-dev] FW: EML and ISO19115

[Inigo San Gil]

Happy holidays,

These days Ive been browsing the ISO19139 schemas (staying away from the 
conceptual 19115, directly to the XML implementation).

I see lots of synergies between FGDC, ISO and EML, but still, let's be 
clear, ISO19139 is a geospatial standard - so in practice, it does not 
cover well any spreadsheet or regular RDBMS based data, nor views of 
RBDMS (most of those can be described as views or spreadsheets).

I looked and looked through most of the 62 schemas associated with the 
ISO (the tags & hierarchy, really), and I still have to find the right 
niche for descriptions of spreadsheets or physical measurements 
[variables]  (in EML, those were named "attributes"..).  The stylesheet 
provided here (thanks!) stops at the resource element -- that is, data 
discovery functionality at best.

Given that ISO19139 includes openGis's GML, this stylesheet could be 
extended to cover the EML non-resource groups "spatialRaster/Vector". 
Even witgh that addition, the crosswalk is limited by the limitations of 
the source metadata (ISO) -- it would provide a bridge for GIS-centric 
data - it would not help to all these studies that are non- GIS centric, 
and those abound in biology.  While the move towards ISO19139/19115 or 
ISO/NAP may make sense to GIS folks, including those users of FGDC's 
"Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata" and its profiles, the 
Biological Data Profile (BDP) and so on, it does not make much sense to 
those who need to describe spreadsheets and the like. Given that most 
geo-spatial applications lean on Esri, ISO, Inspire or the products of 
FGDC, Im still unsure how useful is going to be this crosswalk - but for 
compliance, and for what is worth, this is good, and perhaps worth to 
extend to the GML part.  Other folks have done great work in this, 
including Ted Habberman (NOAA) and Wolfgang Grunberg (USGIN), who also 
did another Drupal based metadata wizard with ISO compliance, etc.  
Wolfgang and the USGIN group  actually wrote some nice best practices 
and documents related to ISO. I didnt find any complimentary standard 
sanctioned by ISO that covers what EML "dataTable" section covers -- 
this would be great to have as an extension or compliment for the 
ISO19139, etc. if any of you know where this stuff is, please point me 
to it (no, im not looking for ODFs and the like, something simpler if 
possible). I know you guys may have some great guidance into this.  
Perhaps after Santa Claus we can have some chat?

Cheers, Inigo

On 10/7/2010 5:11 AM, Éamonn Ó Tuama (GBIF) wrote:
>
> GBIF has developed an XSLT to transform our profile of EML 2.1.0 to 
> ISO19139. It may provide a start for a more comprehensive stylesheet. 
> See here:
>
> http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/
>
> The XSL file is:
>
> http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/eml2iso19139.xsl
>
> Éamonn
>
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> *From: *Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu <mailto:jones at nceas.ucsb.edu>>
>
> *Date: *September 29, 2010 10:26:01 AM EDT
>
> *To: *David Blankman <dblankman1 at gmail.com <mailto:dblankman1 at gmail.com>>
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> *Cc: *barbara magagna <Barbara.Magagna at umweltbundesamt.at 
> <mailto:Barbara.Magagna at umweltbundesamt.at>>, Victoria Goodall 
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> *Subject: **Re: [eml-dev] EML and ISO19115*
>
> We've wanted that for a long time, but I don't know of anyone who is 
> working on it directly. I think that this conversion would be a little 
> easier than the conversion to the BDP. Would this be something that 
> the folks at ILTER could tackle and make available through the EML 
> project alongside the other conversion XSLTs?
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:43 AM, David Blankman <dblankman1 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dblankman1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Matt et al,
>
> I was wondering if there is a plan to create cross-walks between EML 
> and ISO19115.  All of the European LTERs will be required to report in 
> ISO19115 format. An XSLT analogous to the EML to FGDC would be very 
> inportant
>
> *David Blankman *
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