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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:doc="eml://ecoinformatics.org/documentation-2.2.0" xmlns="eml://ecoinformatics.org/semantics-2.2.0" targetNamespace="eml://ecoinformatics.org/semantics-2.2.0">
<xs:import namespace="eml://ecoinformatics.org/documentation-2.2.0" schemaLocation="eml-documentation.xsd"/>
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation>
Copyright: 2017 Regents of the University of California
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
</xs:documentation>
<xs:appinfo>
<doc:moduleDocs>
<doc:moduleName>eml-semantics</doc:moduleName>
<doc:moduleDescription>
<section xmlns="">
<title>
The eml-semantics module - Semantic annotations for formalizing meaning
</title>
<para>
The eml-semantics module defines types and elements for
annotating other structures within EML with semantically-precise
statements from various controlled vocabularies. This is
accomplished by associating the global URI for a property and
value with elements from EML, such as an attribute, an entity,
or a dataset. It is used throughout the other EML modules where
detailed semantic information is needed. For example, given an
EML attribute named "tmpair", one might want to indicate
semantically that the attribute is measuring the property
"Temperature" from a sample of the entity "Air", where both of
those terms are defined precisely in controlled vocabularies.
</para>
</section>
</doc:moduleDescription>
<doc:recommendedUsage>all datasets</doc:recommendedUsage>
<doc:standAlone>yes</doc:standAlone>
</doc:moduleDocs>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType name="SemanticAnnotation">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<doc:tooltip>Semantic annotation</doc:tooltip>
<doc:summary>A semantically-precise statement about an EML element.
</doc:summary>
<doc:description>
<section xmlns="">
<para>The SemanticAnnotation Type contains
elements that are used to associate a semantic statement using
a property and value from specific formal vocabularies with
other elements within EML. For example, one
might want to provide the precise set of semantic statements that
clarify the measurement semantics of an attribute (variable)
within a data set, or associate a specific statement with a
data table or dataset.
</para>
</section>
</doc:description>
<doc:example>Please see the examples for the particular
subfields.</doc:example>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="propertyURI" type="xs:anyURI" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<doc:tooltip>Property URI</doc:tooltip>
<doc:summary>The persistent URI used to identify a property from a vocabulary.
</doc:summary>
<doc:description>The URI for a property that is drawn from a controlled
vocabulary, and that links the subject of this annotation
(which is implied by its parent elements) to the annotation value.
</doc:description>
<doc:example>http://ecoinformatics.org/oboe/oboe.1.2/oboe-characteristics.owl#ofCharacteristic</doc:example>
<doc:example>http://ecoinformatics.org/oboe/oboe.1.2/oboe-standards.owl#usesStandard</doc:example>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="propertyLabel" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<doc:tooltip>Property Label</doc:tooltip>
<doc:summary>
A human readable representation of the controlled property.
</doc:summary>
<doc:description>
A label that provides a human readable representation of
the controlled property. The label is often used to represent
the controlled property when displaying annotations in
software. The label is often redundant with one or more labels
that are defined in the controlled vocabulary itself,
but is repreated here within the EML document to make it easy
for consumers to display the annotation to users. Other
labels, including labels in multiple languages, may often be
accessible from within the ontology or controlled
vocabularly accessible at the propertyURI. Property definitions
and relationships to other properties are also typically
provided within the vocabularly accessible at the propertyURI.
Software and people may be able to resolve the URI to find out
the definition and retrieve additional labels and other metadata
for presentation to users.
</doc:description>
<doc:example>has characteristic</doc:example>
<doc:example>uses protocol</doc:example>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="valueURI" type="xs:anyURI" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<doc:tooltip>Value URI</doc:tooltip>
<doc:summary>The persistent URI used to identify a value from a vocabulary.
</doc:summary>
<doc:description>The URI for a value that is drawn from a controlled
vocabulary such as a published ontology or controlled term list. The
value represents the object of a semantic statement in which the
subject is the containing element, the property is defined by
the sibling propertyURI, and this valueURI element represents
the object. These values should be precisely defined,
including defining various relationships to related concepts.
Value URIs are typically drawn from formal ontologies that
provide well-defined logical semantics and provide for various
types of reasoning about value equivalence and overlap.
Value URIs should be persistent and unique over decades,
and the meaning of the values associated with the URI should
be stable over time as well. These URIs are usually constructed
using an additional abstraction layer via link resolvers,
rather than directly resolving to the term definition itself.
Thus, when resolving the valueURI, software user agents should
be prepared to follow multiple redirects before finally
resolving the current location of the value definition.
However, there is no requirement that valueURIs need to be
resolvable, and metadata parsers should expect to find
valueURIs that do not resolve and are only used as unique
URIs for the value.
</doc:description>
<doc:example>http://ecoinformatics.org/oboe/oboe.1.2/oboe-characteristics.owl#Mass</doc:example>
<doc:example>http://ecoinformatics.org/oboe/oboe.1.2/oboe-standards.owl#Kilogram</doc:example>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="valueLabel" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<doc:tooltip>Value Label</doc:tooltip>
<doc:summary>
A human readable representation of the controlled value.
</doc:summary>
<doc:description>
A label that provides a human readable representation of
the controlled value. The label is often used to represent the
controlled value when displaying annotations in software. The
label is often redundant with one or more labels that are
defined in the controlled vocabulary itself, but is repreated
here within the EML document to make it easy for consumers to
display the annotation to users. Other labels, including
labels in multiple languages, may often be accessible from
within the ontology or controlled vocabularly accessible at
the valueURI. Value definitions and relationships to
other terms are also typically provided within the vocabularly
accessible at the valueURI. Software and people can resolve
the value URI to find out the definition of the value and
retrieve additional labels and other metadata about the value
for presentation to users.
</doc:description>
<doc:example>Mass</doc:example>
<doc:example>Kilogram</doc:example>
<doc:example>Net Primary Production</doc:example>
<doc:example>Carbon</doc:example>
<doc:example>Density</doc:example>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:element name="annotation" type="SemanticAnnotation">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:appinfo>
<doc:tooltip>Semantic Annotation</doc:tooltip>
<doc:summary>A precisely-defined semantic statement.
</doc:summary>
<doc:description>An annotation represents a precisely-defined semantic
statement that is used to semantically label another structure
within EML, such as an attribute, entity, or dataset. The annotation
is composed of a subject (implied by the element containing
the annotation or pointed at from within eml:additionalMetadata), a
property that defines the relationship between the
subject and the object of the statement, and the value of that
property. This is equivalent to RDF Statements that consist of a
Subject, Predicate, and Object. More concretely, the annotation
provides a way to state that an element within EML has a specific
property with a specific value.
</doc:description>
<doc:example>For example, a common annotation would state that a containing
'attribute' uses a measurement unit of 'grams'. This would be equivalent
to defining a statement using the OBOE design pattern that says:
'attribute7' 'oboe:usesStandard' 'oboe:Gram', where 'attribute7' is
shorthand for the attribute in EML containing the annotation, and
'oboe:' is shorthand for the full OBOE URI. In this example,
'attribute7' is the subject represented as the id of the attribute
containing the annotation, 'oboe:standard' is the propertyURI for the
statement, and 'oboe:Gram' is the object of the statement.
</doc:example>
</xs:appinfo>
</xs:annotation>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>