Metadata Application Profile

flattenedFauna Metadata Application Profile

The fF Repository combines elements from three metadata schemes: Dublin Core, Darwin Core, and DataCite. This chart describes the metadata elements used by the flattenedFauna repository. They are grouped into categories by applicator: 1. Depositors are responsible for providing certain required and optional elements when contributing data; 2. Curators will assign additional elements based on record-level metadata collected at submission and are also responsible for mapping variable-level metadata to repository schema, and; 3. Some elements are populated automatically by the system.

Element

Namespace

Status

Encoding

Rules

Example

datasetName

https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#datasetName

Mandatory

String (alpha-numeric)

See File Naming Guide

<dwc:datasetName>evergladesPythonRoadkill_20081608-20081609.csv</dwc:datasetName>

creator

http://dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/2012-06-14/?v=elements#creator

Mandatory

String

Full name of institution or person. Person name format: Family Name, Given Name

<dc:creator></dc:creator>

nameIdentifier

http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4/metadata.xsd

Mandatory

String

Identifier for creator. Must specifiy nameIdentifierScheme and SchemeURI

<dci:nameIdentifier nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID" schemeURI="http://orcid.org/">802398439</nameIdentifier>

rightsHolder

http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder

Mandatory

String

Full name of institution or person. Person name format: Family Name, Given Name

<dc:rightsHolder>Totenberg, Nina</dc:rightsHolder>

coverageSpatial

http://purl.org/dc/terms/spatial

Mandatory

String

State or Province required; other detail as needed

<dc:coverageSpatial></dc:coverageSpatial>

coverageTemporal

http://purl.org/dc/terms/temporal

Mandatory

String

A year or range of years at the least

<dc:coverageTemporal></dc:coverageTemporal>

description

http://purl.org/dc/terms/description

Mandatory

String

Abstract

<dc:description>Roadkill observations of pythons collected by trained volunteers...</dc:description>

license

http://purl.org/dc/terms/license

Mandatory

String

Controlled Vocabulary

<dc:license>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</dc:license>

samplingProtocol

http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/samplingProtocol

Mandatory

String

Controlled Vocabulalry

<dwc:samplingProtocol>Volunteers were trained in python identification and drove a regular 60 Km route once a week recording any roadkilled pythons</dwc:samplingProtocol>

language

http://purl.org/dc/terms/language

Mandatory

String

<dc:language>English</dc:language>