'$RCSfile: eml-dataset.xsd,v $' Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis For Details: http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/ '$Author: jones $' '$Date: 2001-07-31 16:24:36 $' '$Revision: 1.6 $' This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA eml-dataset The eml-dataset module contains general information that describes dataset resources. It is intended to provide overview information about the dataset, including title, abstract, keywords, contacts, and the links to associated metadata for the given resource. It also describes the temporal, geographic, and taxonomic coverage of the overall dataset. A dataset can be (and often is) composed of a series of data entities (tables) that are linked together by particular integrity constraints. Dataset type The container for fields describing a dataset resource. The dataset element defines extend the ResourceBase complexType in order to provide information that is specific to describing a set of data. Therefore, dataset elements contain all of the general resource elements, but also specific dataset elements. Please see the examples for each subelement. This element was introduced in EML 2.0, and is derived from the eml-dataset module in EML 1.4. Temporal coverage Information about the temporal extent of the resource. This element describes the temporal extent of the resource expressed in a start date and a stop date. The temporalCoverage element was introduced into EML 1.4. Geographic coverage Description of the geographic area which data are collected in the entity. This element describes the geographic area which data are collected in the entity: descriptive paragraph of text or Cartesian coordinates of the area. The geographicCoverage element was introduced into EML 1.4. Taxonomic coverage Description of the taxonomic extent of data in the dataset. This element describes the taxonomic extent of data in the dataset. This can be a list of species, or a group of species at a higher taxonomic rank (such as genus or family). The taxonomicCoverage element was introduced into EML 2.