FAIRsharing record for: Ecological Metadata Language

This FAIRsharing record describes: The Ecological Metadata Language (EML) metadata standard was originally developed for the earth, environmental and ecological sciences. It is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts. It has been developed to document any research data, and as such can be used outside of these original subject areas. EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document research data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any dataset.