[LTER-im] Fwd: New informational check released for EDI data portal

[Margaret O'Brien]

Margaret O'Brien
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Information Management
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From: EDI <info at environmentaldatainitiative.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:24 AM
Subject: New informational check released for EDI data portal
To: <margaret.obrien at ucsb.edu>


The EDI data portal has added a new informational check to the suite of
data congruence checks it runs on every data package submitted.
The EDI data portal has added a new informational check to the suite of
data congruence checks it runs on every data package submitted.
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Hello all -
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
info at environmentaldatainitiative.org.

  About the check: Compare dataTable header row to attribute names

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.

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.

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.
To be released: 2018 July 11

   - headerRowAttributeNames:
      - Justification: Good practice.
         - Type: congruence
         - Action: Header row is displayed alongside attribute names
         Compare the content of the data header row to the content of EML
         attributeName
         - Expectation: No expectation, information only
         - Returns: info

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