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Title: Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) relates to GCDML and other outcomes

Abstract

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) invited a representative of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) to its fifth workshop to present the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) metadata standard and its relationship to the Minimum Information about a Genome/Metagenome Sequence (MIGS/MIMS) and its implementation, the Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language (GCDML). The LTER is one of the top National Science Foundation (NSF) programs in biology since 1980, representing diverse ecosystems and creating long-term, interdisciplinary research, synthesis of information, and theory. The adoption of EML as the LTER network standard has been key to build network synthesis architectures based on high-quality standardized metadata. EML is the NSF-recognized metadata standard for LTER, and EML is a criteria used to review the LTER program progress. At the workshop, a potential crosswalk between the GCDML and EML was explored. Also, collaboration between the LTER and GSC developers was proposed to join efforts toward a common metadata cataloging designer's tool. The community adoption success of a metadata standard depends, among other factors, on the tools and trainings developed to use the standard. LTER's experience in embracing EML may help GSC to achieve similar success. A possible collaboration between LTER and GSC to provide training opportunities for GCDMLmore » and the associated tools is being explored. Finally, LTER is investigating EML enhancements to better accommodate genomics data, possibly integrating the GCDML schema into EML. All these action items have been accepted by the LTER contingent, and further collaboration between the GSC and LTER is expected.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [2];  [2];  [7];  [8]
  1. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
  2. ORNL
  3. University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  4. Michigan State University, East Lansing
  5. Arizona State University
  6. NERC, Oxford, England
  7. USDA Forest Service
  8. University of California, Santa Barbara
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1015035
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMPLEMENTATION; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION; SYNTHESIS; TRAINING

Citation Formats

Inigo, Gil San, Servilla, Mark, Brunt, James, Michener, William, Sheldon, Wade, Schmidt, Tom, Cole, James, Aguilar, Raul, Gries, Corinna, Gray, Tanya, Field, Dawn, Pan, Jerry Yun, Palanisamy, Giri, Henshaw, Donald, and O'Brien, Margaret. Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) relates to GCDML and other outcomes. United States: N. p., 2008. Web.
Inigo, Gil San, Servilla, Mark, Brunt, James, Michener, William, Sheldon, Wade, Schmidt, Tom, Cole, James, Aguilar, Raul, Gries, Corinna, Gray, Tanya, Field, Dawn, Pan, Jerry Yun, Palanisamy, Giri, Henshaw, Donald, & O'Brien, Margaret. Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) relates to GCDML and other outcomes. United States.
Inigo, Gil San, Servilla, Mark, Brunt, James, Michener, William, Sheldon, Wade, Schmidt, Tom, Cole, James, Aguilar, Raul, Gries, Corinna, Gray, Tanya, Field, Dawn, Pan, Jerry Yun, Palanisamy, Giri, Henshaw, Donald, and O'Brien, Margaret. 2008. "Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) relates to GCDML and other outcomes". United States.
@article{osti_1015035,
title = {Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) relates to GCDML and other outcomes},
author = {Inigo, Gil San and Servilla, Mark and Brunt, James and Michener, William and Sheldon, Wade and Schmidt, Tom and Cole, James and Aguilar, Raul and Gries, Corinna and Gray, Tanya and Field, Dawn and Pan, Jerry Yun and Palanisamy, Giri and Henshaw, Donald and O'Brien, Margaret},
abstractNote = {The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) invited a representative of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) to its fifth workshop to present the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) metadata standard and its relationship to the Minimum Information about a Genome/Metagenome Sequence (MIGS/MIMS) and its implementation, the Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language (GCDML). The LTER is one of the top National Science Foundation (NSF) programs in biology since 1980, representing diverse ecosystems and creating long-term, interdisciplinary research, synthesis of information, and theory. The adoption of EML as the LTER network standard has been key to build network synthesis architectures based on high-quality standardized metadata. EML is the NSF-recognized metadata standard for LTER, and EML is a criteria used to review the LTER program progress. At the workshop, a potential crosswalk between the GCDML and EML was explored. Also, collaboration between the LTER and GSC developers was proposed to join efforts toward a common metadata cataloging designer's tool. The community adoption success of a metadata standard depends, among other factors, on the tools and trainings developed to use the standard. LTER's experience in embracing EML may help GSC to achieve similar success. A possible collaboration between LTER and GSC to provide training opportunities for GCDML and the associated tools is being explored. Finally, LTER is investigating EML enhancements to better accommodate genomics data, possibly integrating the GCDML schema into EML. All these action items have been accepted by the LTER contingent, and further collaboration between the GSC and LTER is expected.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1015035}, journal = {OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology},
number = 2,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008},
month = {Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008}
}