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Translate Ecological Metadata Language (EML) into `dataspice` tabular formats
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dataspice -> EML? #2

Open cboettig opened 6 years ago

cboettig commented 6 years ago

Hey @isteves ,

Still meaning to find some time to play with this, but this looks really cool!

Thoughts on going in the other direction, dataspice -> EML? (Or maybe I've overlooked it). I wonder if something like that could provide an easier way of creating at least light-weight EML documents than eml2, or act as something of a gateway into EML use.

isteves commented 6 years ago

I started getting into it, but quickly ran into problems with unitText. I probably should've chosen one of the less tricky tables to start.

Since I need to switch my focus over to RStudio/job apps, I'm not sure when I can get back to thinking about this problem, but it's definitely something I'm interested in! I may be able to look into it during some of my plane rides in the next few weeks, and I'll ping you if I do.

In case you missed it, I've PR-ed the functions into dataspice: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/dataspice/pull/63 Just added made a fix to .travis.yml which should hopefully fix the Travis build.

Also, somewhat related: https://github.com/nceas/metajam ^ this is a project Mitchell and I worked on with Julien during our last couple months at NCEAS. It basically has two functions: to download a DataONE data object with its metadata, and to read into R. Parts of it are still in development, but it's worth checking out! We ended up not aligning with dataspice as much as I'd originally imagined, but it shares a lot of the same ideas.