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Subject: 	Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Cruise Reports and CTD data]]
Date: 	Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:07:47 -0400
From: 	Scott.Mowery <Scott.Mowery@noaa.gov>
To: 	Jonathan Blythe <Jonathan.Blythe@noaa.gov>
References: 	<4BB9ED57.8030704@noaa.gov>


Jonathan -

I just looked at the metadata web-links you referred to - the links to
the BITMAX website are under the header "Metadata_Extensions:
Online_Linkage:"

I think their intent is to direct users back to the BITMAX-II website
for any questions regarding extended elements within the metadata record
needed by the BITMAX-II metadata producers (if any). Understand concern
re long-term posterity of the web-links, but this is a standard FGDC
metadata reference information section 7.11 - I think we have to accept
that links are perishable, and either choose to remove references in the
archived metadata or leave it in the record with a standard caveat that
web-links do not share the record's immortality - my vote is for leaving
them!

As for the link to the plots - you'll notice this is under the
"Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name:" for a "salinity, dissolved
oxygen, OBS turbidity, and fluorescence results from first axial survey
from R/V SHARP CTD." I've attached a copy of the associated graphics to
this email, and suggest add the files to the archive and mod the
metadata as follows:

Change: "Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
https://mermaid.ncddc.noaa.gov/edu/umces/BITMAXII/BM0701/Cruise_Report/BM0701_Cruise_Report/idinfo/browse/BM0701_Ax01.pdf"

To: "Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
BM0701_Ax01.pdf"

(or similar, wherever the PDF file is located in the accession's
directory structure.)

Same for the link to the AX02 pdf...

Your thoughts on this issue?


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As for the .js and .ccs files - these are externally embedded java
script files (and associated cascading list files) -- I'm not sure why
they're included - I'll get back to you shortly!

Scott


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Jonathan Blythe wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>  I am accessioning the UMCES cruise data (reference email below, NODC
> accession 0062884), but I am having trouble with the metadata that are
> included in the .zip file.  Did you write the metadata files (html and
> xml)?  Why do they have links to the internet?  One link is to an NCDDC
> site, and it brings up plots of data.  The second link goes to the
> BITMAX-II website.  My concern with these links is that they will break
> in the matter of years, so they are not a permanent aspect of the
> accession.  Also, I'm not familiar with two of the other file formats
> associated with the metadata (.js, .ccs).  Do you know if these files
> need to be included in the accession?  I cannot evaluate their content,
> so I don't know what I should do with them.
> Thank you,
> Jonathan
>