EML contains provisions for communication. Is it possible to document in EML dynamic online data resources?
Yes, there are provisions in the eml-physical module for descriptions of online data resources.. The eml-physical module describes the structural characteristics of data formats as delivered over the wire or as found in a file system. One physical object (which can be a bytestream or an object in a file system) might contain multiple entities (for example, this would be typical in a MS Access file that contained multiple tables of data). However, it is typically used to describe a file or stream that is in some text-based format such as ASCII or UTF-8, and includes the information needed to parse the data stream to extract the entity and its attributes from the stream. There are 3 distribution types, online, offline, and inline. To describe an online dataset in EML you would populate the online element with the distribution information.
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