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data
Data
data object
Data object
Content that is managed by a Member Node and is not a Science Metadata object or a Resource Map object.
data package
A data package is a set of one or more data objects and science metadata objects that together represent a scientifically useful unit of information. Data packages are defined in DataONE using resource maps.
resource map
resource maps
Resource map
Resource Map
An OAI-ORE RDF document that is used to indicate the relationships between data and science metadata in a data package. Resource maps have a Types.ObjectFormatIdentifier of http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms
science metadata
Science metadata
Metadata that describes data held by a Member Node. DataONE works with several metadata standards, including but not limited to Dublin Core, FGDC, EML, and ISO-TC211.