[eml-dev] Basis of the record in EML

Margaret O'Brien mob at msi.ucsb.edu
Tue Sep 24 09:58:52 PDT 2013


Hello all -
There have been other suggestions/comments on possible ways to adapt EML 
for sensor data (and also for real-time ongoing sensor data). Here is 
the link to that discussion:
https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/issues/1794

I suggest we a summary of this discussion to that thread.

Margaret
(I'll do it later today or this week, if there are no objections)

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Margaret O'Brien
Information Management
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2071 (voice)
http://sbc.lternet.edu

On 9/24/13 4:27 AM, Antonio García Camacho wrote:
> Thanks Inigo, David and Matt.
> In my opinion, we need to apply the most traceable proposal and at the 
> same time facilitate the translation between formats.
> However, could be /basisOfRecord /tag enough interesting to recommend 
> it as further modification of EML? What do you think?
>
> Antonio.
>
> *Antonio García Camacho*
> Estacion Biologica de Doñana (CSIC)
> Americo Vespucio s/n Isla de la Cartuja
> 41092 Sevilla, España
> Tel. +34 954232340 / Fax. +34 954621125
> antonio.garcia.camacho at csic.es <mailto:antonio.garcia.camacho at csic.es>
> www.ebd.csic.es <http://www.ebd.csic.es/>
>
>
> El 17/09/2013 20:20, Matt Jones escribió:
>> If you truly want to use the semantics of the Darwin Core 
>> basisOfRecord, then David's proposal to use it in the EML 
>> additionalMetadata section would be the most traceable. I would do it 
>> a little differently, and import DwC and use it directly as it is in 
>> the DwC spec.  For example:
>>
>> <eml:eml
>>     xmlns="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1 
>> <http://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1>"
>>     xmlns:eml="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1 
>> <http://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1>"
>>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>     xsi:schemaLocation="eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1 
>> <http://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.1.1> 
>> http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/schema/eml-2.1.1/eml.xsd">
>> <additionalMetadata
>>     xmlns:dwc="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms"
>>     xsi:schemaLocation="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/ 
>> http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/xsd/tdwg_dwc_extensions.xsd">
>>  <metadata>
>> <dwc:basisOfRecord>HumanObservation</dwc:basisOfRecord>
>>  </metadata>
>> </additionalMetadata>
>> </eml:eml>
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:01 AM, David Blankman <dblankman1 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dblankman1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     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
>>
>>     *David Blankman*
>>     Chair, ILTER Information Management Committee
>>     Director, Information Management, Israel LTER
>>
>>     972-77-442-1951
>>     972-54-685-9345 (mobile)
>>     1-505-349-5680 <tel:1-505-349-5680> (Skype)
>>     dblankman (Skype)
>>
>>
>>     2013/9/17 Inigo San Gil <isangil at canyon.lternet.edu
>>     <mailto: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*
>>>         Estacion Biologica de Doñana (CSIC)
>>>         Americo Vespucio s/n Isla de la Cartuja
>>>         41092 Sevilla, España
>>>         Tel. +34 954232340 <tel:%2B34%20954232340> / Fax. +34
>>>         954621125 <tel:%2B34%20954621125>
>>>         antonio.garcia.camacho at csic.es
>>>         <mailto:antonio.garcia.camacho at csic.es>
>>>         www.ebd.csic.es <http://www.ebd.csic.es/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>         -- 
>>         Inigo San Gil
>>         Research Assoc Professor
>>         LTER McMurdo Dry Valleys
>>         LTER Network Office
>>         Department of Biology, UNM
>>         cell:(505) 269-0386  <tel:%28505%29%20269-0386>
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