1. Information Management using Ecological Metadata Language Corinna Gries - CAP Margaret O’Brien - SBC

2. Goal To provide the ecological community with an extensible, flexible metadata standard for use in data analysis and for use in data analysis and archiving that will allow automated machine processing, searching and retrieval.

3. Ecological Metadata Language - EML Introduction –Purpose, Structure, Content Management –Editors, Databases, Creation, Maintenance Uses –Web Display, Data Access, Data Conversion, Data Integration

4. Introduction Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) –Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) –Biological Profile of the CSDGM (from the NBII) International Standards Organization –Geographic Information Standard (ISO 19115) –Date and Time Standard (ISO 8601), OpenGIS Consortiums (GML) Scientific, Technical, and Medical Markup Language (STMML) Extensible Scientific Interchange Language (XSIL).

5. Introduction http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML http://intranet.lternet.edu/archives/documents/Newsletters/DataBits/03spring/#6fa XML-based storage and transfer of metadata EML content standard focuses on metadata for identification, analysis, and integration accommodates geospatial and non-geospatial data strong data typing strong access and revision control distinction between logical format and physical format

6. Introduction Resource –Dataset –Literature –Software –Protocol Party, Coverage, Keywords, Access, Physical, Project, Methods Structure

7. Introduction Dr. Joe T. Ecologist Jr. FSL LTER Department for Ecology Fictitious State University PO Box 111111 Ficity FI 11111-1111 (999) 999-9999 jecologist@fi.univ.edu http://www.fsu.edu/~jecologist Structure

8. Introduction EML Best Practices http://cvs.lternet.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/emlbestpractices/ Annotation Language (SEEK) http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/ Content

9. Management XML Spy Oxygen JEdit Morpho (EML) (NCEAS) MetaDoor (FGDC) (Carolina Ocean Observing and Prediction System) Esri ARCGIS (Esri, FGDC) Editors

10. Management Morpho RDBMS Reverse Engineering Excel Conversion Scripts Creation

11. Management Metacat RDBMS Native XML –Open Source, e.g. eXist –Commercial, e.g. Tamino Databases

12. Management Metacat Features Contributors: NCEASNCEAS, Texas Tech, LTER, SDSCTexas TechLTERSDSC Can hold any XML document Client API available in Java and Perl Tables stored in relational database (postgres, oracle, mysql) Replication XML queries converted to SQL http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/metacat/

13. Management Revision included in the packageId Manual (Morpho) Scripted Maintenance

14. Uses Web Display

15. Uses Web Display

16. Browse Results

17. Dataset View

18. Uses Data Access Kepler Trends Project Xylopia

19. Uses Data Access: Kepler Ilkay Altintas and Efrat Jeager @ San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD

20. Uses Data Access: Xylopia

21. Uses Data Access: Outreach

22. Uses Data Conversion PTAH creating scripts for statistical programs from EML http://intranet.lternet.edu/archives/documents/Newsletters/DataBits/06spring/#9fa

23. Uses Data Integration Unit Dictionary Kepler: Annotation Language Cross Site Projects