Module Documentation: eml-project
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The EML Project Module describes the research context in which the dataset was created, including description of over-all motivations and goals, funding, personnel, description of the study area etc. This is also the module to describe over-all sampling methods for the project.

Element Definitions:

researchProject
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: ResearchProjectType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
title
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: xs:string
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
A descriptive title for the research project.
Example:
Species diversity in Tennessee riparian habitats.
personnel
Content of this field: Description of this field:

Derived from: rp:ResponsibleParty (by xs:extension)

Elements: Required?: How many:
A sequence of (
roleOptionalMultiple Times
)
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
This element extends ResponsibleParty with role information. Roles can be drawn from an enumerated list taken from iso-party or the user can add their own roles.
Example:
author, contentProvider, custodianSteward, distributor, editor, metadataProvider, originator, pointOfContact, principalInvestigator, processor, publisher, or user (ISO list). A user defined role might be somethng like: fieldStationManager or information manager
role
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: rp:RoleType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
abstract
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: txt:TextType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
Descriptive abstract that summarizes information about the research project.
funding
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: txt:TextType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
Grant and contract numbers, names and addresses of funding sources.
studyAreaDescription
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Elements: Required?: How many:
A choice of (
descriptorOptionalMultiple Times
OR
citationOptionalMultiple Times
OR
coverageOptionalMultiple Times
)
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
Description of the physical location of the research project. Can include descriptions of the geographic, temporal, and taxonomic coverage of the research location and descriptions of domains (themes) of interest such as climate, geology, soils or distrubances or reference to citable biological or geophysical classification systems such as the "Bailey..." or the ... The descriptions may be either general descriptions in textual form or specific values for named theme attributes such as average rainfall. The "studyArea" is, in most cases, a larger geographical area than the coverage represented in the "designDescription", that is, studyArea represents the environmental context of the specific coverages described in "designDescription"
descriptor
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Elements: Required?: How many:
A sequence of (
descriptorValueOptionalMultiple Times
citationOptionalMultiple Times
)
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
namerequired
citableClassificationSystemrequired

Description:
Descriptions of domains (themes) of interest such as climate, geology, soils or distrubances or references to citable biological or geophysical classification systems such as the "Bailey..." or the ... The descriptions may be either general descriptions in textual form or specific values for named theme attributes such as average rainfall.
Example:
descriptorValue
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Elements: Required?: How many:
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
The value of a descriptor. This may either be a general description in textual form or the value part of a "name/value" pair where the name is entered in the attribute "name_or_id". For example, if the value of the "name" attribute" of the element "descriptor" is "climate", and the value of the attribute "name_or_id" of the element "descriptorValue" is "Annual Precipitation" then the value of this element could be "12.5 inches".
Example:
12.5 inches, tundra-forest
citation
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: cit:CitationType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
citation
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: cit:CitationType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
coverage
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: cov:Coverage
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
designDescription
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Elements: Required?: How many:
A choice of (
descriptionOptionalMultiple Times
OR
citationOptionalMultiple Times
)
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
This element is a container element for either general textual descriptions of research design or more granular descriptions of protocols and/or sampling methods. Literature citations may also be used to describe the research design.
Example:
x
description
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: txt:TextType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
Textual description of research design or more granular descriptions of protocols and/or sampling methods.
citation
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: cit:CitationType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Description:
A citation to literature that describes the research design or more granular descriptions of protocols and/or sampling methods.
relatedProject
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: ResearchProjectType
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
references
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Type: xs:string
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:

Attribute Definitions:

name_or_id

Type: xs:string

Use: optional


Description:
The name part of a name/value pair of a descriptor or ID portion, if applicable of a classification. The values of biogeophysical classification systems, e.g. Bailey-Ecoregions, often take the form of an ID or Code along with a text representaiton. For example, the ID/Code M131 refers to the phrase "Open Woodland -Tundra". M131 is an unambiguous reference to a more detailed description. If one is using a published classification system then there should be a corresponding citation to the source, e.g., Bailey,R.G., 1996 "Ecosystem Geography".
Example:
M131,Average Rainfall,
name

Type: xs:string

Use: required

citableClassificationSystem

Type: xs:boolean

Use: required

id

Type: xs:string

Use: optional

system

Type: xs:string

Use: optional

scope

Type: res:ScopeType

Use: optional

Complex Type Definitions:

ResearchProjectType
Content of this field: Description of this field:
Elements: Required?: How many:
A choice of (
A sequence of (
titleOptionalMultiple Times
personnelOptionalMultiple Times
abstractOptionalMultiple Times
fundingOptionalMultiple Times
studyAreaDescriptionOptionalMultiple Times
designDescriptionOptionalMultiple Times
relatedProjectOptionalMultiple Times
)
OR
referencesOptionalMultiple Times
)
Attributes: Required?: Default Value:
idoptional
systemoptional
scopeoptional

Description:
Research project element is a descriptor of various programmatic aspects within which researchers created this dataset. It can also include general research goals and motivations, data collection methods, equations, formulas. But see 'eml-protocol' for more areas to provide methodological detail. eml-project elements describe various aspects of the research project within which researchers created the associated dataset. The association of a dataset with this project metadata is established in eml-dataset
Example:

Simple Type Definitions:

DescriptorType


Description:
The descriptorType is used to represent either the name of a citable classification system/controlled vocabulary such as the "Bailey" classification of ... or a domain of physical descriptors such as climate or disturbances.
Example:
climate, soils, hydrology, "bailey", biome, disturbance, geology

Derived from: xs:string (by xs:restriction)

Allowed values:

  • climate
  • hydrology
  • soils
  • geology
  • disturbance
  • bailey
  • biome

Derived from: xs:string (by xs:restriction)

Allowed values:

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