Metadata guidelines

Dataset metadata (EML)

See also EML requirements by OBIS and GBIF.

Term	Status
Title (title)	Required
Description (abstract)	Required
People involved (contact, creator & metadataProvider)	Required
Resource citation (citation)	Required
Publishing organization	Required
Type	Required
Basis of record	Required (to be verified with GBIF)
License	Required
Keywords (keywordSet)	Strongly recommended
Sampling methods (methods)	Strongly recommended
Coverage (geographicalCoverage, taxonomicCoverage, temporalCoverage)	Share if available
Project data (project)	Share if available

Terms

Keywords

It's intended that keywords will be associated with each of the use cases outlined in this wiki. Recommendation to use Tracking Tags NERC code category: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/TRTG/

Sampling methods

If there is a link to an online publication describing the methods used in this study (preferrably a DOI):

• Include the DOI in samplingDescription in the metadata
• Populate samplingProtocol in the Darwin Core data with the DOI

Note: DOI should be of format https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-012-0908-1

If such an online publication does not (yet) exist:

• Describe the sampling methods in the free text fields in the metadata (studyExtent, samplingDescription, qualityControl, methodStep)
• Do not populate samplingProtocol in the Darwin Core data