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Ecological Metadata as Linked Data

v0.5.3 · Jan 16, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

This is a utility for transforming Ecological Metadata Language ('EML') files into 'JSON-LD' and back into 'EML.' Doing so creates a list-based representation of 'EML' in R, so that 'EML' data can easily be manipulated using standard 'R' tools. This makes this package an effective backend for other 'R'-based tools working with 'EML.' By abstracting away the complexity of 'XML' Schema, developers can build around native 'R' list objects and not have to worry about satisfying many of the additional constraints of set by the schema (such as element ordering, which is handled automatically). Additionally, the 'JSON-LD' representation enables the use of developer-friendly 'JSON' parsing and serialization that may facilitate the use of 'EML' in contexts outside of 'R,' as well as the informatics-friendly serializations such as 'RDF' and 'SPARQL' queries.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies xml2 jsonlite jsonld yaml EML ecocomDP BeeBDC geoflow geometa emld

Version History

8 tracked
new 0.5.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.5.3 ← 0.5.2 diff Jan 15, 2026
updated 0.5.2 ← 0.5.1 diff Nov 20, 2025
updated 0.5.1 ← 0.5.0 diff Sep 26, 2020
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.0 diff Jul 8, 2020
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Feb 4, 2020
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff Oct 10, 2019
new 0.2.0 Mar 5, 2019