Create metadata for trait dataset — as.metadata • traitdataform

Function to create a defined object containing metadata paramaters according to a pre-defined template.

Usage

as.metadata(
  ...,
  template = list(datasetID = NULL, datasetName = NULL, author = NULL, rightsHolder =
    NULL, bibliographicCitation = NULL, license = NULL, version = NULL, comments = NULL,
    description = NULL, region = NULL, conformsTo = NULL)
)

Arguments

...: named objects of any class. Names must be the same as given by template or they will be ignored when producing the metadata object.
template: The default template contains the elements as defined by the Ecological Traitdata Standard.

Value

an object of class 'metadata', or - if metadata objects are provided as input - a list object of class 'metadatalist'.

Examples


# set metadata object
a <- as.metadata(author = "Martin Gossner", datasetName = "Heteroptera morphometric traits")

# update an existing metadata object
a1 <- as.metadata(datasetID = "heteroptera", template = a)