8.5 Structural metadata - The meta.xml file

The meta-file contains the structural metadata and is required by the Darwin Core Archive. It describes how the files are organised (i.e., which file is the core, which are the extensions), and it links every column of each file to its corresponding Darwin Core term by providing its URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). The file format of the meta-file is XML.

Bud burst:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<archive xmlns="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/text/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:schemaLocation="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/text/ http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/text/tdwg_dwc_text.xsd">
  <core encoding="UTF-8" fieldsTerminatedBy="," linesTerminatedBy="\n" fieldsEnclosedBy="" ignoreHeaderLines="1" rowType="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/Event">
    <files>
      <location>budburst_event.csv</location>
    </files>
    <id index="0"/>
    <field index="0" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/eventID"/>
    <field index="1" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/parentEventID"/>
    <field index="2" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/samplingProtocol"/>
    <field index="3" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/sampleSizeValue"/>
    <field index="4" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/sampleSizeUnit"/>
    <field index="5" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/eventDate"/>
    <field index="6" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/year"/>
    <field index="7" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/month"/>
    <field index="8" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/day"/>
    <field index="9" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/country"/>
    <field index="10" term="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/countryCode"/>