Module Documentation: eml-project

The root element of this module. This is used for testing or if you want to instantiate a stand-alone project file.

A descriptive title for the research project.
Example(s):
Species diversity in Tennessee riparian habitats.

Derived from: rp:ResponsibleParty (by xs:extension)

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.

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

Descriptive abstract that summarizes information about the research project.

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.

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.

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.

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

A citation for this descriptor.

The citation for this descriptor.

The coverage of this descriptor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Type: xs:string

Use: optional

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

Type: DescriptorType

Use: required

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.

Type: xs:boolean

Use: required

This boolean attribute defines whether this descriptor comes from a citable classification system or not.

Type: res:IDType

Use: optional

Type: res:SystemType

Use: optional

Type: res:ScopeType

Use: optional

Default value: document

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).

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