Units-WG

Established in 2022, the Units team is working to identify a modern, community-driven replacement for an existing unit registry based on a MySql database and PHP web services. The WG has identified QUDT as an appropriate framework for listing and describing units in ecological metadata, and is working to identify the best approaches to incorporating QUDT services and metadata into Ecological Metadata Language (EML) metadata records.

contributors:

• Margaret O'Brien <margaret.obrien'at'ucsb.edu>
• John H. Porter <jhp7e'at'virginia.edu>
• Stevan Earl <stevan.earl'at'asu.edu>
• Marina Frants <mfrants'at'ucsd.edu>
• Christine Laney <claney'at'battelleecology.org>
• Mary Martin <mary.martin'at'unh.edu>

interested parties:

• Elie Arnaud <elie.arnaud'at'mnhn.fr>
• Sarah Claire Elmendorf <sarah.elmendorf'at'colorado.edu>
• Matt Jones <jones'at'nceas.ucsb.edu>
• Hillary Krumbholz <hkrumbholz'at'ucsb.edu>
• Anna LaBry <rmlabry'at'gmail.com>
• An T Nguyen <enthusiast'at'utexas.edu>
• Suzanne Remillard <suzanne.remillard'at'oregonstate.edu>
• Mark Servilla <mark.servilla'at'gmail.com>
• Chris Turner <chris'at'axiomdatascience.com>
• Mya Yazbek <mya.yazbek'at'eastern.edu>

Logistics

• We meet via zoom on the second Wednesday of each month at 8:00 Pacific/11:00 Eastern.
• Project notes

Products

• dataset: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=edi&identifier=1715
• paper: submitted Aug 2024, text available by request (describes mapping process and results)
  • code in this repository