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Happy holidays,<br>
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These days Ive been browsing the ISO19139 schemas (staying away from
the conceptual 19115, directly to the XML implementation).<br>
<br>
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). <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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? <br>
<br>
Cheers, Inigo<br>
<br>
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73, 125);">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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73, 125);"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/eml2iso19139.xsl">http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/eml2iso19139.xsl</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org"><span
style="color: blue;">eotuama@gbif.org</span></a>), <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery,
Access (IDA), <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
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Secretariat, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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DENMARK</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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font-family:
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color: black;">From: </span></b><span
style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif";">Matt
Jones <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jones@nceas.ucsb.edu">jones@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif";">September
29,
2010 10:26:01 AM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif";">David
Blankman <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dblankman1@gmail.com">dblankman1@gmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif";">barbara
magagna
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Barbara.Magagna@umweltbundesamt.at">Barbara.Magagna@umweltbundesamt.at</a>>,
Victoria
Goodall <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:victoria@saeon.ac.za">victoria@saeon.ac.za</a>>,
Schentz
Herbert <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at">herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at</a>>,
Meei-ru
Jeng <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:beerjeng@gmail.com">beerjeng@gmail.com</a>>,
Helena
Karasti <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:helena.karasti@oulu.fi">helena.karasti@oulu.fi</a>>,
eml-dev
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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color: black;">Subject: </span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family:
"Helvetica","sans-serif";">Re:
[eml-dev] EML and ISO19115</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Matt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:43 AM,
David Blankman <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p class="MsoNormal">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<o:p></o:p></p>
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Management Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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