EML Congruence Checker working group
Membership
EDI: Margaret O’Brien (chair), Duane Costa
LTER: Gastil Gastil-Buhl, Jason Downing, Sven Bohm
History: Work began in 2009 at the LTER All Scientists Meeting in Estes Park, CO, and included contributions from the NCEAS Ecoinformatics programming group for DML-related issues (from Matt Jones, Mark Shildhauer, Ben Leinfleder and Jing Tao). Data-metadata checking was added to the PASTA-based repository of the LTER in 2013.
Resources
Git repository:
https://ediorg.github.com/ECC
Documentation for the Data Package Quality Engine:
https://nis.lternet.edu:8443/display/pasta/Data+Package+Quality+Engine
Timeline
2018
- New checks: DateTimeFormatString, DateTimeCongruence, fundingPresence
Release planned 2018-May-15.
2017
- New checks: DateTimeFormatString, DateTimeCongruence, ChecksumPresence, checksumCongruence
Release anticipated November. The two datetime checks were deployed only in development, while issues are worked out. The two checksum checks were released as planned
2016
- EDI funded (https://edirepository.org/)
- ECC working group management transitioned to EDI, with most input coming from LTER IMC members
2015
- Papers featuring ECC:
- Ensuring the quality of data packages in the LTER network data management system.
M O’Brien, D Costa, M Servilla
Ecological Informatics 36, 237-246. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.08.001
- The contribution and reuse of LTER data in the Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture (PASTA) data repository.
Mark Servilla, James Brunt, Duane Costa, Jeanine McGann, Robert Waide
Ecological Informatics, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.07.003
2014
2013
- LTER ECC working group proposes process for adding and staging new checks
2012
2011