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<!--
'$RCSfile: index.html,v $'
Copyright: 1997-2002 Regents of the University of California,
University of New Mexico, and
Arizona State University
Sponsors: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and
Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans,
University of California Santa Barbara
Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office,
University of New Mexico
Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University
Other funding: National Science Foundation (see README for details)
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
For Details: http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/
'$Author: jones $'
'$Date: 2009-03-05 20:15:52 $'
'$Revision: 1.28 $'
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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-->
<html>
<head>
<title>Ecological Metadata Language</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="@[email protected]" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="EmlGuide" class="book">
<h3>Ecological Metadata Language (EML)</h3>
<hr />
<p>
Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed
by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. It 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.
</p>
<p>
Send any comments, errors, or suggestions to
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
or through the
<a href="https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/projects/eml-2">EML
Bug Tracking system</a>. The preferred way to submit problems with EML or
feature requests is the bug tracking system.
</p>
<h4>EML Version @version@</h4>
<p>
You can access the EML specification online by reading it in HTML
format, or you can download the entire specification, including both
the HTML documentation and the XML Schema files.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
<a href="eml-@version@/index.html">EML @version@ Specification</a>
-- Read it online
</p>
<p>OR</p>
</li>
<li><p><a href="/software/dist">Download EML</a><br />
The download consists of the EML modules, described in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema">XML Schema</a>
language. In addition, the full documentation on the
modules is provided in HTML format.
</p>
</li>
<li><p>
<a href="eml-@version@/eml-211info.html">Changes to EML in version @version@</a>
</p></li>
<li><p>
<a href="eml-@version@/eml-faq.html">EML Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ)</a>
</p></li>
<li>
<p>
<a href="/@servletdir@/">Validation service for EML</a>
<br />In addition to the online service found at the previous link, the
EML distribution itself contains the validation software for your
use (see "lib/runEMLParser" for details on how to run it).
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>About the EML Project</h4>
<p>
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.
The project is completely comprised of
<a href="members.html">voluntary project members</a> who donate
their time and experience in order to advance
information management for ecology. Project decisions are made by
consensus according to the voting procedures described in the <a
href="http://www.ecoinformatics.org/charter.html">ecoinformatics.org
Charter</a>.
</p>
<p>
We welcome contributions to this work in any form. Individuals
who invest substantial amounts of time and make valuable
contributions to the development and maintenance of EML (in the
opinion of current project members) will be invited to become
EML project members according to the rules set forth in the <a
href="http://www.ecoinformatics.org/charter.html">ecoinformatics.org
Charter</a>. Contributions can take many forms, including the
development of the EML schemas, writing documentation, and helping
with maintenance, among others.
</p>
<h4>Development Information</h4>
<p>
Developers may be interested in browsing the
<a href="https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/eml/">source code
SVN repository</a> that we use in developing EML. This always contains
the most recent development version of EML, and therefore may be in
flux, or otherwise broken. It is unlikely that it will contain the same
files that are in the current release (@version@).
Use at your own risk. Write access to this repository is reserved
for <a href="members.html">EML project members</a>.
We welcome contributions to this work in any form.
Contributions can take many forms, including the development
of the EML schemas, writing documentation, and helping with maintenance,
among others. Non-project members can contribute by submitting their
feedback, revisions, fixes, code, or any other contribution through
the <a href="http://www.ecoinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/eml-dev">
[email protected]</a> mailing list, or through the
<a href="https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/projects/eml-2">EML
Bug Tracking system</a>. The preferred way to submit problems with EML or
feature requests is the bug tracking system.
</p>
<h4>Older versions (deprecated)</h4>
<p>
The following versions are still available for reference purposes,
although they have been superseded by the current version (@version@).
Please make every effort to use the current version.
</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/dist/eml-2.1.0.tar.gz">EML 2.1.0</a></li>
<li><a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/dist/eml-2.0.1.tar.gz">EML 2.0.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/dist/eml-2.0.0.tar.gz">EML 2.0.0</a></li>
<li><a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/dist/eml-1.4.1.tar.gz">EML 1.4.1</a></li>
</ul>
</p>
</div>
</body>
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