Information Management

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• Information Management
• using
• Ecological Metadata Language
• Corinna Gries - CAP
• Margaret OBrien - SBC

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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.

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Ecological Metadata Language - EML

• Introduction
• Purpose, Structure, Content
• Management
• Editors, Databases, Creation, Maintenance
• Uses
• Web Display, Data Access, Data Conversion, Data
  Integration

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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).

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Introduction

• http//knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML
• http//intranet.lternet.edu/archives/documents/New
  sletters/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

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Introduction
Structure

• Resource
• Dataset
• Literature
• Software
• Protocol
• Party, Coverage, Keywords, Access, Physical,
  Project, Methods

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Introduction
Structure

• ltcreator id"pers-1" system"FLS"gt
• ltindividualNamegt
• ltsalutationgtDr.lt/salutationgt
• ltgivenNamegtJoelt/givenNamegt
• ltgivenNamegtT.lt/givenNamegt
• ltsurNamegtEcologist Jr.lt/surNamegt
• lt/individualNamegt
• ltorganizationNamegtFSL LTERlt/organizationNamegt
• ltaddressgt
• ltdeliveryPointgtDepartment for
  Ecologylt/deliveryPointgt
• ltdeliveryPointgtFictitious State
  Universitylt/deliveryPointgt
• ltdeliveryPointgtPO Box 111111lt/deliveryPointgt
• ltcitygtFicitylt/citygt
• ltadministrativeAreagtFIlt/administrativeAreagt
• ltpostalCodegt11111-1111lt/postalCodegt
• lt/addressgt
• ltphone phonetype"voice"gt(999)
  999-9999lt/phonegt
• ltelectronicMailAddressgtjecologist_at_fi.univ.edult/
  electronicMailAddressgt
• ltonlineUrlgthttp//www.fsu.edu/jecologistlt/onli
  neUrlgt

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Introduction
Content

• EML Best Practices
• http//cvs.lternet.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/emlbest
  practices/
• Annotation Language (SEEK)
• http//seek.ecoinformatics.org/

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Management
Editors

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

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Management
Creation

• Morpho
• RDBMS
• Reverse Engineering
• Excel Conversion
• Scripts

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Management
Databases

• Metacat
• RDBMS
• Native XML
• Open Source, e.g. eXist
• Commercial, e.g. Tamino

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ManagementMetacat Features
http//knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/metacat/

• Contributors
• NCEAS, Texas Tech, LTER, SDSC
• 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

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Management
Maintenance

• Revision included in the packageId
• Manual (Morpho)
• Scripted

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Uses
Web Display
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Uses
Web Display
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Browse Results
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Dataset View
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Uses
Data Access

• Kepler
• Trends Project
• Xylopia

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Uses
Data Access Kepler
Ilkay Altintas and Efrat Jeager _at_ San Diego
Supercomputer Center, UCSD
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Uses
Data Access Xylopia
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Uses
Data Access Outreach
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Uses
Data Conversion

• PTAH creating scripts for statistical programs
  from EML
• http//intranet.lternet.edu/archives/documents/Ne
  wsletters/DataBits/06spring/9fa

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Uses
Data Integration

• Unit Dictionary
• Kepler Annotation Language
• Cross Site Projects