camtrapdp (version 0.4.0)

write_eml: Transform a Camera Trap Data Package to EML

Description

Transforms the metadata of a Camera Trap Data Package object to an Ecological Metadata Language (EML) file.

Usage

write_eml(x, directory, derived_paragraph = TRUE)

Value

eml.xml file written to disk. And invisibly, an EML::eml object.

Arguments

x

Camera Trap Data Package object, as returned by read_camtrapdp().

directory

Path to local directory to write files to.

derived_paragraph

If TRUE, a paragraph will be added to the abstract, indicating that data have been transformed using write_dwc().

Transformation details

Metadata are derived from what is provided in x. The following properties are set:

• title: Title as provided in x$title.

• type: Set to Occurrence in keywords.

• subtype: Set to Observation in keywords.

• update frequency: Set to unknown.

• description: Description as provided in x$description. If derived_paragraph = TRUE a generated paragraph is added, e.g.:

  Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the camtrapdp R package and only include observations (and associated media) of animals. Excluded are records that document blank or unclassified media, vehicles and observations of humans.

• license: License with scope data as provided in x$licenses.

• creators: Contributors as provided in x$contributors, excluding those with roles rightsHolder and publisher.

• contact: Contributors with role contact. If none exist, first creator.

• metadata provider: Same as contact.

• keywords: Keywords as provided in x$keywords.

• geographic coverage: Bounding box as provided in x$spatial.

• taxonomic coverage: Taxa as provided in x$taxonomic.

• temporal coverage: Date range as provided in x$temporal.

• project data: Title, acronym as identifier, description, and sampling design as provided in x$project.

• alternative identifier: Identifier as provided in x$id. If this is a DOI, no new DOI will be created when publishing to GBIF.

• external link: URL of the project as provided in x$project$path.

The following properties are not set:

• publishing organization

• associated parties

• sampling methods

• citations

• collection data: not applicable.

See Also

Other transformation functions: merge_camtrapdp(), round_coordinates(), shift_time(), update_taxon(), write_dwc()

Examples

x <- example_dataset()
(write_eml(x, directory = "my_directory"))

# Clean up (don't do this if you want to keep your files)
unlink("my_directory", recursive = TRUE)