Template metadata

Metadata templates are a mix of machine extracted and human supplied information.

template_directories()

Initialize directories for templates, data objects, and EML

template_core_metadata()

Describe core features of a data package

template_table_attributes()

Describe data tables

template_categorical_variables()

Describe categorical variables of a data table

template_geographic_coverage()

Describe where the data were collected

template_taxonomic_coverage()

Describe biological organisms (taxa)

template_annotations()

Add semantic meaning

template_provenance()

Describe source datasets

Make EML

Renders template content into an EML file.

make_eml()

Make EML metadata

EML2EAL

For when you want to work with EML in EAL but don’t have the templates and make_eml() function call.

eml2eal()

Create EAL inputs from an EML file

eml2eal_losses()

Check info lost in the EML to EAL translation

Utilities

Helper functions

annotate_eml()

Annotate an EML file (.xml) or an emld list object

issues()

View issues to function inputs

template_arguments()

Create a list of inputs to EMLassemblyline functions (primarily for internal use only)

view_unit_dictionary()

Browse EML's dictionary for defining units of data attributes