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May 2021</h3>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#0066cc">Updating the schema.org Metadata</span></strong></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">The EDI technical team is now updating the
<a href="https://schema.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">schema.org</span></a> metadata for data packages in the EDI Data Portal to provide rich semantic information that can be utilized by search engines and Google Scholar. We will present details in a webinar on June 15, 2021.</span></span><br>
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/2021/05/03/updating-schema-org-metadata/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Read
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong>2021 EDI Summer Fellowship Program</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">The host site mentors for our 2021 Fellows have selected 16 students for this year's program. As in the years before, it was very difficult to chose only a few
students from the large number of excellent applicants. The fellowship program will begin with a virtual data publishing workshop (June 14-18, 2021</span>).<br>
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edi-2021-summer-fellowship-program/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Read
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#0066cc"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edis-featured-data-contributions/seedlings-rainforest-trials-costa-rica/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><img data-file-id="2362605" style="width:250px;height:250px;margin:5px 10px 5px 0px;outline:none" width="250" height="250" align="left" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea/images/96c82dcd-9465-43c5-8af6-5eadf1873016.jpg"></a>Featured
Data Packages</span></strong><br>
The <a href="https://tropicalstudies.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Organization for Tropical Studies</span></a> based in Costa Rica, is currently undertaking a robust and concerted effort to identify, retrieve, manage, and share important legacy data sets from tropical research projects going back
to the 1960s. Two data packages on growth and survival of seedlings of 14 species of lowland rainforest trees are featured this month (photo: Dr. E.González, the original project manager, standing next to a Vochysia guatemalensis tree from the original plantings).
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edis-featured-data-contributions/seedlings-rainforest-trials-costa-rica/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Read more ></span></strong></span></a></span></span><br>
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TECHNICAL NEWS</h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#0066cc"><img data-file-id="2362653" style="width:200px;height:55px;margin:0px;outline:none" width="200" height="55" align="right" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea/images/adaf18a6-222f-411c-9513-9d0a332ac6ae.png">Rendering
of Markdown and LaTex equations in EML</span></strong><br>
The EDI Data Portal now supports the provisional rendering of Markdown and LaTex equations in most TextType elements of the Ecological Metadata Language.</span><br>
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/2021/04/30/rendering-of-markdown-and-latex-equations-in-eml/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Read
more></span></strong></span></a><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#0066cc">Convert EML to EMLassemblyline (EAL)</span></strong><br>
The new <a href="https://ediorg.github.io/EMLassemblyline/reference/eml2eal.html" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">eml2eal()</span></a> function converts an EML file into EAL’s metadata templates, allowing you to manage data publications within the EAL workflow even if the EML was created by some other means. The supporting
<a href="https://ediorg.github.io/EMLassemblyline/reference/eml2eal_losses.html" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">eml2eal_losses()</span></a> function reports information lost in translation so you can understand which losses are acceptable and which are not.
<a href="https://github.com/EDIorg/EMLassemblyline" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Give it a whirl in EAL version >= 3.2.2</span></a><a href="https://github.com/EDIorg/EMLassemblyline" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">.</a>
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at 2pm Eastern Time (11am Pacific). For connection information, please check our
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<span style="color:#0066cc">website</span></a> and <a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/calendar/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">events calendar</span></a>.</span></span></p>
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<li style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">May. 18, 2021:
<strong>“How to publish data in the EDI data repository - an overview” </strong><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcOCtrTkoG9Q__fJ48z-x3gQvIK974Tuc" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc">Connection
information</span></a>.</span></span></li><li style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Jun. 15, 2021:
<strong>“Updating schema.org metadata for data packages in the EDI Data Portal to provide rich semantic information that can be utilized by search engines and Google Scholar.“</strong> Mark Servilla (EDI)
</span></span></li><li style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Jul. 20, 2021:
<strong>EDI Town Hall</strong></span></span></li></ul>
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