<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div>Ah... Now I get it! Thanks for clarifying Margaret.</div><div><br></div><div>The thing for me with this EML best practices is that although I may have read it once, it just does not stick because, as you know, LUQ has a module that produces our EML data sets packages on the fly. Once evaluated in PASTA, I just deal with fixing the metadata and data in my system such that PASTA accepts the package.</div><div><br></div><div>So, EML becomes transparent to me until I am curious about any changes that may effect our DEIMS module.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Our DEIMS group decided to keep the current version of DEIMS for the following 2 years. The ILTER group also use the current version and I would like to coordinate with them when making an effort to upgrade DEIMS in the future.</div><div><br></div><div>This means that I am interested in any progress in the development of EML that may happen.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for keeping us posted.</div><div><br></div><div>EDA<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp9eafc09fsignature"><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span><div>Eda Celina Meléndez Colom</div><div>LUQ Information Manager</div><div>Department of Environmental Sciences<br>Natural Science Department<br></div><div>University of Puerto Rico</div><div>Río Piedras Campus</div><div>Tel (787) 764-0000, Ext. 888225</div></span></div></div></div>
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<div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259"><div><div dir="ltr">thanks Dan - and you are perfectly correct (and doing way better on your phone than I would be!)<div><br clear="none"></div><div>The uses of attributeName and attributeLabel that you and Gastil described have been best-practice in the LTER network since ~2005 (the first edition of EML-BP), and were described that way in the EML docs from the very beginning. However, until we had a checker there was now way to inform folks of whether or not they were adhering to BP. The checker project was started by the LTER IMC, and adopted by EDI along with other PASTA software. The current place for checker info, background, resources, etc is <a shape="rect" href="https://github.com/EDIorg/ECC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/EDIorg/ECC</a>. (Side note: the IMC Wired working is still working out how to mark deprecated area of the IMC website.)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>If you aren't interested in details about EML, stop here. </div><div>Otherwise: </div><div>the reason that attributeName is the one to be associated with the file itself is that attributeName is a required element, and attributeLabel is optional. So applications can rely on attributeName being there, but not on attributeLabel. It is not likely that the contents of an attributeLabel can be easily evaluated, because it involves semantic interpretation. We are not anticipating having the resources for that.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>best,</div><div>Margaret</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div><div class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"><span style="font-size:small;">Margaret O'Brien</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">Information Management</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">Marine Science Institute, UCSB</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">Santa Barbara, CA 93106</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">805-893-2071 (voice)</span><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://environmentaldatainitiative.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://environmentaldatainitiative.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://sbc.marinebon.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sbc.marinebon.org</a></font><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a shape="rect" href="http://sbc.lternet.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sbc.lternet.edu</a></font></div><div><br clear="none"><div><pre></pre><pre><br clear="none"></pre></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:04 AM Dan Bahauddin <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:danbaha@umn.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">danbaha@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Hi Eda,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Sorry. I'm just emailing from my phone while my car is repaired. I probably should have waited for someone with knowledge and an actual computer to answer.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Still, I've got nothing else to do, so...</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Yes, label is just for human to get an idea of what is in the data field. It may not be the perfect word for it, but I think it is meant to conceptually be between the computer-readable "name" and a full definition. I don't see how it could ever have a conguency check of it's own.</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 10:38 AM Eda C. Melendez-Colom <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:edacorreo@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">edacorreo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">...I meant, is the label in the metadata just to facilitate human reading, like Gastil said?<div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496186239"><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496186481">...its name "label" is kind of misleading, isn't it?</div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496273652"><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496273845">EDA<br id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496103268" clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579ymail_android_signature"><a shape="rect" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br clear="none"> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#6d00f6;"> <div>On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Eda C. Melendez-Colom</div><div><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:edacorreo@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">edacorreo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6;"> Hi Dan,<div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531495853102"><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531495853219">Great. Than you.</div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531495867164"><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531495867756">Now, will it be considered best practices that the name of the variable coincide with the column label and not with the label in the metadata?</div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531495942377"><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531495942559">What is the function of the metadata's attributelabel then?</div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496007898"><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496012071">Again, thanks.</div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496032628"><br clear="none"></div><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531496032715">EDA<br id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yMail_cursorElementTracker_1531495843712" clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579ymail_android_signature"><a shape="rect" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br clear="none"> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#6d00f6;"> <div>On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Dan Bahauddin</div><div><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:danbaha@umn.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">danbaha@umn.edu</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6;"> <div id="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yiv0280773463"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Eda,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>This is just an informational check. It will not cause a warning or an error, and will not prevent package uploads.</div></div><div class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yiv0280773463gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yiv0280773463gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre><font size="3" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--</font></pre><pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dan Bahauddin
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<br clear="none"><div class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yiv0280773463gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Eda C. Melendez-Colom <span dir="ltr"><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:edacorreo@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">edacorreo@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="ydp91b5be72yiv1275511259m_-7625052500711046494m_-7466974736333723871m_-3609992290776377589m_-7747593926957207579yiv0280773463gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Gastil,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Does that mean that if my column lables don't match the attributeName, PASTA will not accept my EML package?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>EDA<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><a shape="rect" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br clear="none"> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#6d00f6;"> <div>On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Gastil Gastil-Buhl</div><div><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:gastil.gastil-buhl@ucsb.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gastil.gastil-buhl@ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6;"> <div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Eda,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>I am glad you asked the list so everyone can read the answer, especially our new site IMs. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The <b>attributeName</b> should match the column headers in the dataTable, and be useful as a variable name.</div><div>The <b>attributeLabel</b> is for humans to read and does not need to be useful as a variable name. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>For example, </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>attributeName: temp</div><div>attributeLabel: Air Temperature</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>reference:</div><div><a shape="rect" href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/emlbestpractices-v3.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https:// environmentaldatainitiative. files.wordpress.com/2017/11/ emlbestpractices-v3.pdf</a><br clear="none"></div><div>page 31</div><div>quoted below, where I have substituted [] for <> because the angle brackets confuse email.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><b>[attributeName]</b> is typically the name of a field in a data table. This is often short and/or<br clear="none">cryptic. It is recommended that attributeNames be suitable for use as a variable, e.g.,<br clear="none">composed of ASCII characters, and that the [attributeName]s match the column headers<br clear="none">of a CSV or other text table.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><b>[attributeLabel]</b> (optional): is used to provide a less ambiguous or less cryptic<br clear="none">alternative identification than what is provided in [attributeName]. [attributeLabel] is<br clear="none">likely to be used as a column or row header in an HTML display<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><br clear="none"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><span><span>So it seems you have been using them the other way around. I hope it is efficient to re-code your EML generation so you do not have a lot of re-entry to do. Lucky for the new site IMs they will see your question and be saved that extra work. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><span><span><br clear="none"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><span><span>Glad to hear from you,</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><span><span>Gastil</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span><span><span><span><br clear="none"></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div><br clear="none"><div>On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Eda C. Melendez-Colom <span dir="ltr"><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:edacorreo@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">edacorreo@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Margaret,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Just one question: should the header row entries in the data table coincide with the attributes' names or the attributes' labels in the metadata?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I always make sure that the lables in the data columns coincide with the labels specified in the metadata but the Name of the Variable in the metadata is usually more descriptive and longer.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>EDA<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><a shape="rect" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br clear="none"> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#6d00f6;"> <div>On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Margaret O'Brien</div><div><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6;"> <div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"><span style="font-size:small;">Margaret O'Brien</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">Information Management</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">Marine Science Institute, UCSB</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">Santa Barbara, CA 93106</span><br clear="none"><span style="font-size:small;">805-893-2071 (voice)</span><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://environmentaldatainitiative.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http:// environmentaldatainitiative. org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://sbc.marinebon.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sbc.marinebon.org</a></font><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a shape="rect" href="http://sbc.lternet.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sbc.lternet.edu</a></font></div><div><br clear="none"><div><pre></pre><pre><br clear="none"></pre></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br clear="none">From: <strong>EDI</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a shape="rect" href="mailto:info@environmentaldatainitiative.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">info@ environmentaldatainitiative. org</a>></span><br clear="none">Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:24 AM<br clear="none">Subject: New informational check released for EDI data portal<br clear="none">To: <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu</a>><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><u></u>
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The EDI data portal has added a new informational check to the suite of data congruence checks it runs on every data package submitted. This check is information only and the community felt it was valuable, so we are releasing it outside the regular twice-yearly schedule. A brief description of the new check is below; for more information contact <a shape="rect" href="mailto:info@environmentaldatainitiative.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">info@ environmentaldatainitiative. org</a>.<br clear="none">
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<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;">Some programs (e.g., R, matlab) are able read in the first row (header row) of a data table and convert the names found there to variables in code. EML metadata contains additional information about the attribute (table column) that is often not in the table header. EML Best Practices state that the header row of a table should match the attributeNames in metadata - this check displays header row names of the data table and the attribute names provided in the EML metadata to facilitate a visual comparison of the two sets of names.</p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;">This check displays the header row alongside attribute names for the user to compare their content visually. The check does not attempt to ascertain if the header and attributeNames match because table headers may be composed of multiple lines, and the matching line cannot be identified.</p>
<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left;">Checks returning warn or errors are released twice a year. A quorum of users approved releasing checks that are strictly informative as soon as they become available because informational checks do not affect report results, but may be of use to data managers.</p>
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<ul><li>headerRowAttributeNames:
<ul><li>Justification: Good practice.
<ul><li>Type: congruence</li><li>Action: Header row is displayed alongside attribute names Compare the content of the data header row to the content of EML attributeName</li><li>Expectation: No expectation, information only</li><li>Returns: info</li></ul>
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