A challenge I’m confronted with is development of a metadata generation tool that is user friendly, robust, and meets metadata content best practices. The EMLassemblyline R code package helps the average data provider create metadata in the Ecological Metadata Language (EML; a metadata standard developed and maintained by the ecological community), but needs development. Users supply their data and a set of completed metadata templates, and EMLassemblyline automatically extracts additional metadata from the data entities and translates templates into an EML record. Benefits of the EMLassemblyline include:
Good operational documentation.
Auto detection of metadata content from data entities.
Minimal R experience required. Users supply metadata in text files and tables.
Completed templates simplify revisioning of a metadata record.
Supports autonomous data processing and publication workflows.
A challenge I’m confronted with is development of a metadata generation tool that is user friendly, robust, and meets metadata content best practices. The
EMLassemblylineR code package helps the average data provider create metadata in the Ecological Metadata Language (EML; a metadata standard developed and maintained by the ecological community), but needs development. Users supply their data and a set of completed metadata templates, andEMLassemblylineautomatically extracts additional metadata from the data entities and translates templates into an EML record. Benefits of the EMLassemblyline include:Issues in need of solutions (see project issue tracker for details):