Week 6 - Metadata standards
Learning goals
- Understand the role of metadata in facilitating the management, discovery, interoperability, and reuse of digital resources and research data.
- Recognize the importance of adhering to domain-specific metadata standards and determining which standard should be used.
- Acquire familiarity with the overall structure of the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) schema and the anatomy of an EML record.
- Programmatically create EML metadata records using R.
Slides and other materials
Class data GitHub repository, week 6 for in-class exercise
Related resources:
- Research Data Alliance (RDA) Metadata Standard Catalog.
- EML Schema Documentation.
- EML Best Practices.
- Creating EML records in R.
- EzEML - Ecological Data Initiative (EDI).
- Excel to EML.
- capemlGIS - a package that extends the CAPLTER/capeml to facilitate the creation of EML spatialRaster and spatialVector objects and metadata.
Recommended readings
Gries, C., Hanson, P. C., O’Brien, M., Servilla, M., Vanderbilt, K., & Waide, R. (2023). The Environmental Data Initiative: Connecting the past to the future through data reuse. Ecology and Evolution, 13(1), e9592. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9592
Leipzig, J., Nüst, D., Hoyt, C. T., Ram, K., & Greenberg, J. (2021). The role of metadata in reproducible computational research. Patterns, 2(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100322