Environmental Data Initiative/Long Term Ecological Research Network EML Congruence Checker Margaret O'Brien Duane Costa Mark Servilla 10.6084/m9.figshare.9162197.v1 https://esip.figshare.com/articles/presentation/Environmental_Data_Initiative_Long_Term_Ecological_Research_Network_EML_Congruence_Checker/9162197 <p>ESIP community members use many metadata dialects and are exposed to metadata requirements and recommendations from many organizations, disciplines, and communities. </p><p>Here, we present the evaluation of metadata and data by NSF's Environmental Data Initiative data repository, for the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network and other ecosystem-level research endeavors. We focus on three questions:</p><ol><li>What is the role of the repository in evaluation in curation of data and metadata? </li><li>What supporting tools and infrastructure are used by this repository? </li><li>How does metadata evaluation help motivate change?</li></ol><div>This presentation was given in July 2019 at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting held in Tacoma, Washington.</div> 2019-07-31 14:39:38 metadata practices metadata assessment ESIP Summer 2019 Data Format Data Format not elsewhere classified