The long-term ecological research community metadata standardisation project: A progress report

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 141-153

  Gil, Inigo San ^a   Baker, Karen ^b   Campbell, John ^c   Denny, Ellen G ^c   Vanderbilt, Kristin ^a   Riordan, Brian ^d   Koskela, Rebecca ^d   Downing, Jason ^d   Grabner, Sabine ^e   Melendez, Eda ^f   Walsh, Jonathan M ^g   Kortz, Mason ^b   Conners, James ^b   Yarmey, Lynn ^b   Kaplan, Nicole ^h   Boose, Emery R ⁱ   Powell, Linda ^j   Gries, Corinna ^k   Schroeder, Robin ^k   Ackerman, Todd ^l   Ramsey, Ken ^m   Benson, Barbara ⁿ   Chipman, Jonathan ⁿ   Laundre, James ^o   Garritt, Hap ^o   Henshaw, Don ^c   Barrie, Collins ^p   Gardner, Christopher ^q   Bohm, Sven ^r   O'Brien, Margaret ^s   Gao, Jincheng ^t   Sheldon, Wade ^p   Lyon, Stephanie ^u   Bahauddin, Dan ^u   Servilla, Mark ^a   Costa, Duane ^a   Brunt, James ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e University of Applied Sciences   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^g CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^h Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^m NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^o MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^q OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u 100 Ecology Building   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ecological metadata language; EML; Metadata; Metadata management; Standardisation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION;

ECOLOGICAL METADATA LANGUAGE; LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH NETWORKS; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; MAPPING PROCESS; METADATA DRIVEN; METADATA MANAGEMENT; METADATA QUALITY; PROGRESS REPORT;

METADATA;

EID: 75649087446     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.027750     Document Type: Article

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