Create darwin core archives

[sckott]

Create darwin core archives

[sckott]

@SteveViss Sounds great to me. Let me know if you have any questions. We can refine it further if you can submit a pull request

[sckott]

probably will wait until xml2 has write capability and those features on CRAN

[Daphnisd]

Is this still planned?

[sckott]

maybe. i haven't looked into what this would take per se, but yes, xml2 does have write capability now, so is doable

[SteveViss]

Hi @sckott , I would like to convert extensive and newly opened datasets in Québec to DarwinCore Archive. I could always use the GBIF IPT to generate the DwC-A, but I'm not a GUI guy and I would like to regenerate the archive when datasets are updated... I think finch package will be more appropriate. I would like to help you with the development and focus on the simple version of the DwC. I have the idea of simply extend the EML structure (see, in EML package ) by adding a new field at the dataTable:

• dataTable
  • entityName
  • entityDescription
  • DwCTerm
  • physical
  • attributeList

The DC terms will be extracted from higher levels (dataset in EML) and then we have to validate each DwCTerm (within the DwC namespace) and control eventually for the taxonomy with taxize. What do you think?

[sckott]

need to submit a new version to CRAN, moving this to next milestone

[sckott]

@SteveViss still interested in doing this?