We welcome submissions of any Data Standards related to the biological sciences. Submissions will be formatted for blog posting and will be evaluated for appropriateness, but we will make every effort to include submissions relevant and in the manner in which they were submitted.
You can submit a standard by sending an email to ofwimds.submission@blogger.com. To ensure that your submission is formatted properly, we suggest the following:
1. Change the formatting of your email to plain text.
2. Enter the Title of your post as the subject line of the email.
3. Include a hyperlink to the online resource relevant to the Data Standard first.
4. Include a short description (1 paragraph) describing the Data Standard.
5. Include any suggested tags for your posting.
6. If you do not have an email signature, please be sure to include your contact information at the bottom of your email.
Example Email
Subject:
Ecological Metadata Language (EML)
Body:
http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/
Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. It is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications). EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological dataset.
Joe Smith
GIS Guru
Biological and Environmental, Inc.
Lajitas, TX
joe.smith@beinc.com
