[eml-dev] EML and ISO19115

Thu Sep 30 12:22:14 PDT 2010

The XSLT stylesheets that we use ship publicly for the conversion are
located in the EML repository, specifically for NBII BDP and ESRI here:

https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/eml/trunk/lib/eml2tonbii/
https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/eml/trunk/lib/esri2eml/

These are the ones we use in Morpho to provide transformations, but Inigo
did a ton of work on these too and may have additional updates to the
stylesheets.

Matt

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Victoria Goodall <victoria at saeon.ac.za>wrote:

> Hi David
>
> Please could you let me know if you make progress with the cross-walk as
> this is something that would be very useful to us here in South Africa.
>
> Many thanks,
> Victoria
>
> On 30 September 2010 16:40, David Blankman <dblankman1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Matt and Inigo,
>>
>> Herbert and I will be working together on developing a cross-walk between
>> EML and ISO-19115. I know that Inigo has a lot of experience developing
>> cross-walks. I jope that Inogo will be able to lend his experience to the
>> project.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Schentz Herbert <
>> herbert.schentz at umweltbundesamt.at> wrote:
>>
>>>  Matt, is this the entrypoint for further information on FGDC to EML?
>>> http://intranet.lternet.edu/im/project/Esri2Eml
>>>
>>> if so, do you think that we (me and barbara) could get access to it? I
>>> suppose that david already has an account.
>>> thanks
>>> Herbert
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------
>>> *Von:* Schentz Herbert [herbert.schentz at umweltbundesamt.at]
>>> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 30. September 2010 08:25
>>> *An:* Matt Jones
>>>
>>> *Cc:* David Blankman; eml-dev; Magagna Barbara; Victoria Goodall;
>>> Meei-ru Jeng; Helena Karasti
>>> *Betreff:* AW: [eml-dev] EML and ISO19115
>>>
>>>    Thanks Matt! Do you think that the logistical decisions for FGDC/EML
>>> could serve as good guidelines when establishing the logistical decisions
>>> for ISO19115/EML. If so, are they written down somewhere or does someone
>>> have to get them out of the XSLT(s)?
>>> Herbert
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------
>>> *Von:* mbjones.89 at gmail.com [mbjones.89 at gmail.com] im Auftrag von Matt
>>> Jones [jones at nceas.ucsb.edu]
>>> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 29. September 2010 21:09
>>> *An:* Schentz Herbert
>>> *Cc:* David Blankman; eml-dev; Magagna Barbara; Victoria Goodall;
>>> Meei-ru Jeng; Helena Karasti
>>> *Betreff:* Re: [eml-dev] EML and ISO19115
>>>
>>>  There is a lot of overlap among all three metadata specs.  Portions of
>>> EML are in the FGDC standard and vice versa, and portions of 19115 are in
>>> EML.  EML also incorporates metadata from ESRI's FGDC implementation that
>>> was missing in the real  FGDC  and ISO.  Probably > 80% will be isomorphic
>>> and easily mapped, so I think the mapping is the easier part of the process.
>>>  The hard part is the transformation itself, and in particular the
>>> transformation at the point where the models diverge.  The hard decisions
>>> are what to do when the transformation will be necessarily lossy or
>>> imprecise due to granularity mismatches, or how to manage for missing
>>> content that is required in one specification but optional and therefore not
>>> provided by the user in the other.  The FGDC/EML stylesheets encode a bunch
>>> of these logistical decisions, and represent a compromise on hard situations
>>> where the mappings break down.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Schentz Herbert <
>>> herbert.schentz at umweltbundesamt.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  If ILTER could do that, it would be great. Is not the FGDC metadata
>>>> standard very closely related to ISO 19115?
>>>> I think that, once the contents mapping is done, the establishment of an
>>>> XSLT is not really the tricky part of it.
>>>> What about several people working on the contents mapping within an UML
>>>> diagramm. (with enterprise architect for example it is easy to create UML
>>>> diagrams by reverse engeneering from XSDs.)
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Herbert
>>>>
>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>> *Von:* mbjones.89 at gmail.com [mbjones.89 at gmail.com] im Auftrag von Matt
>>>> Jones [jones at nceas.ucsb.edu]
>>>> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 29. September 2010 16:26
>>>> *An:* David Blankman
>>>> *Cc:* eml-dev; Magagna Barbara; Victoria Goodall; Schentz Herbert;
>>>> Meei-ru Jeng; Helena Karasti
>>>> *Betreff:* 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>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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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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