[eml-dev] Basis of the record in EML

[David Blankman]

Antonio,

I could read Inigo's Spanish, but not write (forgot too much).

I hadn't thought about KeywordSet. That would be a good option for any
other Darwin Core elements that you might want to use.

David

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2013/9/17 Inigo San Gil <isangil at canyon.lternet.edu>

>
> Antonio,
>
> Suena como que DarwinCore (DwC) usa un vocabulario controlado (controlled
> vocabulary) para denotar la naturaleza de la observación en el campo
> basisOfRecord.  En EML tan solo hay un vocabulario controlado que es usado
> para denotar unidades de medida, y su presencia está cuestionada.
>
> Sin embargo, en EML hay un número de campos suficientes para recoger la
> naturaleza de la observación. Un sitio adecuado sería usar el grupo
> "keywordSet", por ejemplo
>
> <keywordSet>
>   <keyword type="methods">HumanObservation</keyword>
>   <keywordThesaurus>Darwin Core basisOfRecord</keywordThesaurus>
> </keywordSet>
>
> También hay otras ramas apropiadas, como quizás en la rama de "methods".
>
> En general, el EML es algo mas abstracto que el DwC - menos específico y
> especializado.  Lo cual es una virtud (más flexible) y una maldición (más
> ambiguo) al mismo tiempo.
>
> Iñigo
>
>
>
>
> On 9/17/2013 5:55 AM, Antonio García Camacho wrote:
>
> Dear EML developer team:
>
> I am working for EU BON project, which aims to build a common network
> between biodiversity platforms. We are strongly interested in using EML as
> main ecological metadata definition, rather than DarwinCore.
> Regarding biological observations, we want to differentiate if an
> observation comes from a sensor or from a human being.  DarwinCore has the
> "basisOfRecord" term, which indicates the specific nature of a data record
> (e.g. *HumanObservation*, *MachineObservation*). Is there any equivalent
> tag in EML?
>
> Thank you for your support.
> Kind regards,
> --
> *Antonio García Camacho*
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