can limit reproducibility. ezEML also requires that the
user upload their data to an external site for processing, which may not
be suitable for sensitive data. Here we introduce the NPSdataverse, a
series of R packages for authoring, editing, and checking EML metadata
locally in a robust, repeatable, and scriptable fashion. R Packages
within the NPSdataverse leverage earlier work using R to create and
manipulate XML based EML files <span class="citation">(Boettiger
2019)</span>. Building upon that framewor