Check validity of a metadata statement — check

In the Darwin Core standard, metadata statements are mandatory and must be provided in Ecological Metadata Language (EML) in a file called eml.xml. This function applies a series of checks designed by GBIF to check the structure of the specified xml document for consistency with the standard. Note, however, that this function doesn't check the content of those files, meaning a file could be structurally sound and still be lacking critical information.

Usage

check_metadata(file = NULL, schema = NULL, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

file: An EML file to check Can be either local or a URL.
schema: Either NULL (the default) to compare to the GBIF profile; or a URL to a valid schema (passed internally to xml2::read_xml).
quiet: (logical) Should messages be hidden? Defaults to FALSE

Value

Invisibly returns a tibble showing parsed errors; or an empty tibble if no errors are identified.

Details

This function uses local versions of dc.xsd, eml-gbif-profile.xsd and eml.xsd downloaded from http://rs.gbif.org/schema/eml-gbif-profile/1.3/ on 2024-09-25.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
check_eml(file = "https://collections.ala.org.au/ws/eml/dr368")
} # }