addISOMetadata: Functions to provide reference to data sources

In RObsDat: Data Management for Hydrology and Beyond Using the Observations Data Model

Description

The ISOMetadata table contains dataset and project level meta data required by the CUAHSI HIS meta data system (http://www.cuahsi.org/his/documentation.html) for compliance with standards such as the draft ISO 19115 or ISO 8601.

Usage

addISOMetadata(TopicCategory = "Unknown", Title = "Unknown", 
	Abstract = "Unknown", ProfileVersion = "Unknown", 
	MetadataLink = NULL)
addSource(Organization, SourceDescription, SourceLink = NULL, 
ContactName = rep("Unknown", length(Organization)),
                 Phone = rep("Unknown", length(Organization)), Email =
                 rep("Unknown", length(Organization)), Address =
                 rep("Unknown", length(Organization)), City =
                 rep("Unknown", length(Organization)), State =
                 rep("Unknown", length(Organization)), ZipCode =
                 rep("Unknown", length(Organization)), Citation =
                 rep("Unknown", length(Organization)), Metadata =
                 rep("Unknown", length(Organization)))

Arguments

TopicCategory	Reference to the TopicCategory table, giving the broad ISO19115 metadata topic category for data from this source.
Title	Title of the data source
Abstract	A short abstract characterizing the data source
ProfileVersion	Name of the metadata profile used by the data source
MetadataLink	Link to additional metadata reference material.
Organization	Name of the organization that collected the data.
SourceDescription	Full text description of the source of the data.
SourceLink	Link that can be pointed at the original data file and/or associated metadata stored in the digital library or URL of data source.
ContactName	Name of the contact person for the data source.
Phone	Phone number for the contact person.
Email	Email address for the contact person.
Address	Street address for the contact person.
City	City in which the contact person is located.
State	State in which the contact person is located. Use two letter abbreviations for US. For other countries give the full country name.
ZipCode	US Zip Code or country postal code
Citation	Text string that give the citation to be used when the data from each source are referenced.
Metadata	Reference to the metadata table.

Value

Nothing is returned

Author(s)

Dominik Reusser

See Also

Use getMetadata to retrieve values.

Examples

#connect to standard database
getDefaultDB()
#add data
addISOMetadata(TopicCategory="inlandWaters", Title="FAOStat land use", 
	MetadataLink="faostat.fao.org/site/377/default.aspx")
addSource(Organization="FAO", SourceDescription="FAO Stat Land Use", 
	SourceLink="http://faostat.fao.org/site/377/default.aspx#ancor", 
	ContactName="AskFAOSTAT: http://www.fao.org/askfao/agriculturalstatisticaldata/en/",
	Metadata="FAOStat land use")
getMetadata(table="Source", Description="Land Use")

RObsDat documentation built on May 29, 2017, 12:07 p.m.