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addISOMetadata: Functions to provide reference to data sources

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

See Also

Use getMetadata to retrieve values.

Examples

Run this code
#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")

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