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fgdc bio analytical tools #141

Open stansmith907 opened 6 years ago

stansmith907 commented 6 years ago

The tool tag is a Biological extension to the identification information section of the FGDC standard.
Definition tool: "Tools, models, or statistical procedures that the data set is intrinsically bound to and are available for use in analyzing the data set." 

    <tool>
      <tooldesc>Program MARK is a Windows-based software application...</tooldesc>
      <toolacc>
        <onlink>http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/index.html</onlink>
        <onlink>http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/rmark/</onlink>
        <toolinst>Tool can be downloaded and run on Windows...</toolinst>
        <toolcomp>Written for Windows XP or newer...</toolcomp>
      </toolacc>
      <toolcont>
        <cntinfo>{contact_information</cntinfo>
      </toolcont>
      <toolcite>
        <citeinfo>{tool_citation}</citeinfo>
      </toolcite>
    </tool>

tool has a substantial overlap with the ISO 19115-2 section acquisitionInformation but not an exact match. Definition MI_AcquisitionInfomation: "designations for the measuring instruments, the platform carrying them, and the mission to which the data contributes."

I have found the "-3/mac" XSD for "Metadata for Acquisition", so it did migrate to ISO 19115-3. However I have not found how it plugs in to the base yet as it is not included in the ISO documentation. It will just take a bit of exploring.

Our options are:

dwalt commented 6 years ago

I have used this section, though rarely, to document a data set that really only has value when used in conjunction with an application. An example is a coded ASCII file, in which each column is an attribute, interpreted by the application.

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 3:23 PM, stansmith907 notifications@github.com wrote:

The tool tag is a Biological extension to the identification information section of the FGDC standard. Definition tool: "Tools, models, or statistical procedures that the data set is intrinsically bound to and are available for use in analyzing the data set."

<tool>
  <tooldesc>Program MARK is a Windows-based software application...</tooldesc>
  <toolacc>
    <onlink>http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/index.html</onlink>
    <onlink>http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/rmark/</onlink>
    <toolinst>Tool can be downloaded and run on Windows...</toolinst>
    <toolcomp>Written for Windows XP or newer...</toolcomp>
  </toolacc>
  <toolcont>
    <cntinfo>{contact_information</cntinfo>
  </toolcont>
  <toolcite>
    <citeinfo>{tool_citation}</citeinfo>
  </toolcite>
</tool>

tool has a substantial overlap with the ISO 19115-2 section acquisitionInformation but not an exact match. Definition MI_AcquisitionInfomation: "designations for the measuring instruments, the platform carrying them, and the mission to which the data contributes."

It's interesting and complicating that MI_AcquisitionInfomation did not survive the migration from ISO 19115-2 to ISO 19115-1. I have not found a reason for the omission yet. While it's fun to speculate, I'll leave that out for the moment and contact Jackie and/or Ted for any insight.

Our options are:

  • include the FGDC tools elements into mdJson/mdTranslator
  • include ISO 19115-2's eight MI_AcquisitionInfomation classes into mdJson/mdTranslator and map the FGDC into these
  • ignore this section

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