Ecological Metadata Language (EML)
Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline.
EML is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications). EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by 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.
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.
Utility packages enable coding to and from FGDC and other standards.
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Operational
Posted November 28th, 2007 by allenmacklin
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