The eml-project module describes the research context in
which the dataset was created, including descriptions of over-all
motivations and goals, funding, personnel, description of the study
area etc. This is also the module to describe the design of the
project: the scientific questions being asked, the architecture of
the design, etc. This module is used to place the dataset that is
being documented into its larger research context.
The eml-project module, like other modules, may be
"referenced" via the <references> tag. This allows a research
project to be described once, and then used as a reference in other
locations within the EML document via its ID.
Element Definitions:
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| researchProject | This element has no default value. |
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The root element of this module. This is used for
testing or if you want to instantiate a stand-alone project
file.
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| title | This element has no default value. |
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A descriptive title for the research
project.
Example(s):
Species diversity in Tennessee riparian
habitats.
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| personnel | This element has no default value. |
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The Personnel field extends ResponsibleParty
with role information and is used to document people involved in
a research project by providing contact information and their
role in the project. A project must have at least one
originator.
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| role | This element has no default value. |
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The role field contains information
about role a person plays in a research project. There
are a number of suggested roles, however, it is
possible to add a role if the suggested roles are not
adequate.
Example(s):
author
contentProvider
custodianSteward
distributor
editor
metadataProvider
originator
owner
pointOfContact
principalInvestigator
processor
publisher
user
fieldStationManager
informationManager
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| abstract | This element has no default value. |
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Descriptive abstract that summarizes information
about the research project.
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| funding | This element has no default value. |
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The funding field is used to provide information
about funding sources for the project such as: grant and contract
numbers; names and addresses of funding sources. Other
funding-related information may also be
included.
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| studyAreaDescription | This element has no default value. |
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The studyAreaDescription field documents the
physical area associated with the research project. It 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
disturbances or reference to citable biological or geophysical
classification systems such as the Bailey Ecoregions or the
Holdridge Life Zones.
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| descriptor | This element has no default value. |
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The descriptor field is used to document
domains (themes) of interest such as climate, geology,
soils or disturbances or references to citable biological
or geophysical classification systems such as the Bailey
Ecoregions or the Holdridge Life Zones.
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| descriptorValue | This element has no default value. |
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The descriptorValue field contains
the value of a descriptor, describing some aspect of
the study area. 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(s):
12.5 inches
tundra-forest
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| citation | This element has no default value. |
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A citation for this
descriptor.
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| citation | This element has no default value. |
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The citation for this
descriptor.
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| coverage | This element has no default value. |
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The coverage of this
descriptor.
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| designDescription | This element has no default value. |
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The field designDescription contains general
textual descriptions of research design. It can include detailed
accounts of goals, motivations, theory, hypotheses, strategy,
statistical design, and actual work. Literature citations may
also be used to describe the research design.
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| description | This element has no default value. |
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The field designDescription contains
general textual descriptions of research design. It can
include detailed accounts of goals, motivations, theory,
hypotheses, strategy, statistical design, and actual
work.
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| citation | This element has no default value. |
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The citation field is a citation to
literature that describes elements of the research design,
such as goals, motivations, theory, hypotheses, strategy,
statistical design, and actual work.
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| relatedProject | This element has no default value. |
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This field is a recursive link to another
project. This allows projects to be nested under one another for
the case where one project spawns another.
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Attribute Definitions:
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| name_or_id |
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Type: xs:string
Use: optional
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The name_or_id field is the
name part of a name/value pair of a
descriptor; or ID portion of a
classification, if applicable. The values of
biogeophysical classification systems, e.g.
Bailey-Ecoregions, often take the form of an
ID or Code along with a text representation.
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(s):
M131
Average Annual
Rainfall
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| name |
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Type: DescriptorType
Use: required
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The name of the descriptor system. The
name can be either a theme such as climate or
hydrology, or the name of a citable classification
system.
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| citableClassificationSystem |
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Type: xs:boolean
Use: required
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This boolean attribute defines whether
this descriptor comes from a citable classification
system or not.
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| id |
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Type: res:IDType
Use: optional
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| system |
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Type: res:SystemType
Use: optional
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| scope |
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Type: res:ScopeType
Use: optional
Default value: document
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Complex Type Definitions:
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| ResearchProjectType |
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The researchProject complex type describes the
structure for documenting the research context of a dataset or another
project. It can include research goals, motivations, theory,
hypotheses, etc., as well as a description of research efforts that
form the basis for other work. (To document methods specific to a
dataset use eml-methods.) This field can be associated with a dataset
using the project field of eml-dataset, and can be associated with
another project using the relatedProject field of eml-project (this
module).
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Simple Type Definitions:
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The DescriptorType is used to represent either the
name of a citable classification system/controlled vocabulary such as
the Bailey classification of ecoregions or a domain of physical
descriptors such as climate or disturbances.
Example(s):
climate
soils
hydrology
"bailey"
biome
disturbance
geology
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Group Definitions:
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