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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Update: the latest version of the XSL file for translating from the GBIF EML profile (</span><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/eml-gbif-profile.xsd">http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/eml-gbif-profile.xsd</a>)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> to ISO19139 is here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://code.google.com/p/gbif-metadata/source/browse/trunk/metadata/src/main/resources/eml2iso19139.xsl">http://code.google.com/p/gbif-metadata/source/browse/trunk/metadata/src/main/resources/eml2iso19139.xsl</a>. Please ignore the older URL below which is an early version and does not produce valid ISO19139 documents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We use EML and ISO19139 for just for discovery level metadata. As Inigo points out, expressing the richer data level aspects of EML will be quite a challenge, I think. But, at least, getting the equivalent of the FGDC Biological Profile expressed in ISO19139 would be good, and I see that NOAA has made a start on that (<a href="http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/technology/metadataandxml/view">http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/technology/metadataandxml/view</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Éamonn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Inigo San Gil [mailto:isangil@canyon.lternet.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> 23 December 2010 23:19<br><b>To:</b> "Éamonn Ó Tuama (GBIF)"<br><b>Cc:</b> 'David Blankman'; 'Magagna Barbara'; victoria@saeon.ac.za; 'Schentz Herbert'; beerjeng@gmail.com; helena.karasti@oulu.fi; 'eml-dev'; 'Matt Jones'; 'Tim Robertson'; Vivian B Hutchison; Palanisamy, Giri; wgrunberg@azgs.az.gov; Ted @ NOAA<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [eml-dev] FW: EML and ISO19115<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Happy holidays,<br><br>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>On 10/7/2010 5:11 AM, Éamonn Ó Tuama (GBIF) wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/">http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The XSL file is:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/eml2iso19139.xsl">http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/dev/eml2iso19139.xsl</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Éamonn</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>_______________________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Éamonn Ó Tuama, M.Sc., Ph.D. (<a href="mailto:eotuama@gbif.org">eotuama@gbif.org</a>), </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Senior Programme Officer, Inventory, Discovery, Access (IDA), </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Global Biodiversity Information</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Facility Secretariat, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Phone: +45 3532 1494; Fax: +45 3532 1480</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Matt Jones <<a href="mailto:jones@nceas.ucsb.edu">jones@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>September 29, 2010 10:26:01 AM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>David Blankman <<a href="mailto:dblankman1@gmail.com">dblankman1@gmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Cc: </span></b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>barbara magagna <<a href="mailto:Barbara.Magagna@umweltbundesamt.at">Barbara.Magagna@umweltbundesamt.at</a>>, Victoria Goodall <<a href="mailto:victoria@saeon.ac.za">victoria@saeon.ac.za</a>>, Schentz Herbert <<a href="mailto:herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at">herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at</a>>, Meei-ru Jeng <<a href="mailto:beerjeng@gmail.com">beerjeng@gmail.com</a>>, Helena Karasti <<a href="mailto:helena.karasti@oulu.fi">helena.karasti@oulu.fi</a>>, eml-dev <<a href="mailto:eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org">eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject: Re: [eml-dev] EML and ISO19115</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><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><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Matt<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:43 AM, David Blankman <<a href="mailto:dblankman1@gmail.com">dblankman1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Matt et al,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><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></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>David Blankman </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Chair, ILTER Information Management Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Director, Information Management</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Israel LTER / MARAG</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>972-54-685-9345 (cell)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>972-77-442-1951 (work)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Skype: dblankman</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Eml-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org">Eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org</a><br><a href="http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/eml-dev" target="_blank">http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/eml-dev</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Eml-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org">Eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org</a><br><a href="http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/eml-dev">http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/eml-dev</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Eml-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org">Eml-dev@ecoinformatics.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/eml-dev">http://lists.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/eml-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>