[LTER-im] EML 2.2 release likely spring 2018

[Gastil Gastil-Buhl]

Hello LTER site IMs,

The eml-dev working group, which is a larger ecoinformatics group, not just
LTER, has been developing EML 2.2 over the past six months, with active
participation from a handful of people. The target release date is this
spring, possibly as early as March. EML 2.2 will be backward compatible
with EML 2.1.

New features include:
* provisions for semantic annotation
* expanded text type fields
* more structured project tree including funding metadata
* expansion of and corrections to standard units
* data usage citation.

github for EML development:
https://github.com/NCEAS/eml

Issues and comments:
https://waffle.io/NCEAS/eml

I just wanted you all to know this work is going on and that Matt would
appreciate comments at this stage.

Gastil

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stevan Earl <stevan.earl at asu.edu>
Date: Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:31 PM
Subject: [LTER-im] integration of markdown with TextType (and other
proposed changes) in EML 2.2
To: im at lternet.edu


Hello IMs,

I think you are all aware that Matt Jones and others are preparing for a
release of EML 2.2. One of the issues that I have been following closely is
this <https://github.com/NCEAS/eml/issues/275> one related to the
implementation of TextType in EML as I have found the DocBook
implementation/limitations in EML extremely frustrating. At the risk of
butchering the technical details, I am super, super, super (yes, three
supers!) excited about a change that Matt and others have proposed for EML
2.2 that would allow for the integration of markdown (sorry, Margaret) with
TextType. Matt would love feedback from the community on this proposed
change, so, if you are interested in this issue, please express your
thoughts in the afore linked GitHub issue.

Related, please see here <https://waffle.io/NCEAS/eml> for a list of the
many tickets that Matt and others are working on related to EML 2.2.


Thanks for your consideration,
Stevan
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