Estuarine and Great Lakes (EaGLe) Coastal Initiative

Estuarine and Great Lakes (EaGLe)
Coastal Initiative

Metadata information

Metadata Bibliography

USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure biological metadata standards (link to website)

Increasing Access to and Application of Ecological Data in a Distributed Environment
Presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, August 6, 1998, Baltimore, MD (link to symposium presentations)

Nottrott, Rudolf; Jones, Matthew B.; Schildhauer, Mark P. 1999. Using XML-Structured Metadata to Automate Quality Assurance Processing for Ecological Data. Proceedings of the Third IEEE Computer Society Metadata Conference. IEEE. Bethesda, MD. (link to paper)

Porter, John H., Donald L. Henshaw, and Susan G. Stafford. 1997. Research Metadata in Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER). IEEE Metadata Conference 1997. (link to paper)

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Metadata Standards

Federal Geographic Data Committee (link to their website)

Knowledge network for biocomplexity (an EML implementation; link to their website)

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII; link to their website)

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Metadata Sources

National Environmental Methods Inventory by the Methods and Data Comparability Board. A government-sponsored clearinghouse of environmental field and lab methods and protocols.

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