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Response to a well-formed metadata request

Example Value

Description

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE response PUBLIC "-//Avian Knowledge Network//DTD COVAR_SPAT 1.0//EN" "http://akn.ornith.cornell.edu/dtd/covar_spat_1_0.dtd">
<response>
<header>
<locale country="US" language="en"/>
<timestamp>2009-05-06T07:48:23.346-04:00</timestamp>
<criteria/>
<copyright>Copyright 2009 Cornell Lab of Ornithology -

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</copyright>
<data-policy>AKN Data Sharing Policy -

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</data-policy>
<comment>COVAR_SPAT metadata response</comment>
</header>
<result>
<covar-spat>
<covar-spat-metadata>
<data-record>
<attribute-data>
<field-name>PLAND</field-name>
<descriptive-name>Percentage of landscape (Fragstats)</descriptive-name>
<description>PLAND = the sum of the areas of all patches of the corresponding patch type, divided by total landscape area, multiplied by 100</description>
<data-type>NUMBER</data-type>
<units>Number</units>
<min-value>Not Described</min-value>
<max-value>Not Described</max-value>
<min-value-description>Not Described</min-value-description>
<max-value-description>Not Described</max-value-description>
<nodata-value>-9999</nodata-value>
</attribute-data>
</data-record>
</covar-spat-metadata>
</covar-spat>
</result>
</response>

Header information includes the AKN COVAR_SPAT DTD
The timestamp of the response
A copyright element
The AKN data sharing policy element
A comment element

The data listing is a series of <data-record> elements containing the <field-name>, a <descriptive-name>, and the <source-table-name> element

Response to a mal-formed metadata request

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