README.md

CMPmetabaseNR

Database based on Ecological Metadata Language (EML) and Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) for the Cleveland Metroparks.

How To

For information on how to document datasets in our database with metadata see the wiki here: https://github.com/plorch/CMPmetabaseNR/wiki

Sources

** Note: **

• cv refers to controlled vocabularies

• there appear to be two forks at least where how to populate the data are described

  • lter (lower case)
  • BLE-LTER (upper case)

• EDI point of entry to setting up metadata database (metabase)

  • https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/five-phases-of-data-publishing/phase-3/#Do-It-Yourself

• To create the database, we can clone from here

  • https://github.com/lter/LTER-core-metabase

• To populate the database, see this

  • https://github.com/lter/LTER-core-metabase/blob/master/docs/populate.md#how-to-create-new-datasets

• Populating methods

  • There seems to be two ways to fill methods sections in EML
    • https://github.com/BLE-LTER/LTER-core-metabase/blob/master/docs/populate.md#dataset-methods

• R packages for creating EML from the database

  • https://github.com/BLE-LTER/MetaEgress