EML

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EML - Ecological Metadata Language

Summary

Type of tool

Language

Function

Metadata language

Online / Desktop

Online validation service

Computer infrastructure

 

Development status

version 2.0.1  August 2004

Time of use

Data creation

Licence

Open source

The EML project is an open source, community oriented project dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification for describing data relevant to the ecological discipline.1

 

Description

Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline.

 

EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can be used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological dataset.2

 

Function

  • Identification tools

 

Why use this tool?

With this tool the ecological community has an extensible, flexible, metadata standard for use in data analysis and archiving that allows automated machine processing, searching and retrieval.3

 

Who will use this tool?

  • Data creation
    • Experts
  • Data capture
    • Curators
  • Data providers
    • Institutions
    • Private collections
    • Casual users
  • ALA infrastructure

 

How will the tool be used?

  • Specification in the form of XML schema
  • Validation tool available online
  • User input required for validation

 

Where in the data chain could this tool be used?

  • Data source
  • ALA central could use the specification

 

When could this tool be used?

  • Before data is made available to ALA

 

Availability

 

Comments

This is a language specification.

 

 

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