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miniSASS: Citizen Science Stream Assessment for Water Quality Monitoring
Simplified stream assessment scoring system designed for community participation in water quality monitoring. The mobile app incorporates AI-assisted macroinvertebrate... -
SAEON Open Data Platform - South African Environmental Observation Network
South Africa's long-term environmental observation data repository operated by the National Research Foundation. Supports multiple metadata standards, integrates with GEOSS, and... -
GBIF Issues and Flags Documentation
Comprehensive guide to GBIF's 50+ data quality flags applied during data ingestion. Explains taxonomic, spatial, and temporal flags, their severity levels, and how to interpret... -
rgbif: Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API
Official rOpenSci R package for programmatic access to GBIF data. Enables reproducible data download, taxonomic name resolution, and occurrence data retrieval. The primary tool... -
The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management (Wilkinson et al. 2016)
Landmark publication in Scientific Data defining the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Over 10,000 citations. The foundational framework for modern... -
CoordinateCleaner: Automated Cleaning of Occurrence Records
rOpenSci R package for automated flagging of common spatial errors in biological collection data. Detects zero coordinates, coordinate-country mismatches, centroid assignments,... -
bdc: A Toolkit for Standardizing, Integrating and Cleaning Biodiversity Data
Peer-reviewed R package (Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022) providing five integrated modules for biodiversity data cleaning: dataset merging, pre-filtering, taxonomic... -
GBIF Data Processing Pipeline Documentation
Official documentation of GBIF's data ingestion and processing pipeline. Describes how occurrence data is interpreted, indexed, and quality-flagged through automated validation,... -
Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning (Chapman 2005)
Comprehensive GBIF publication on data cleaning methods for primary species and occurrence data. Covers taxonomic, geographic, and temporal data cleaning approaches from... -
Principles of Data Quality (Chapman 2005)
Foundational GBIF publication on data quality concepts for primary species occurrence data. Covers accuracy, precision, completeness, consistency, and timeliness dimensions.... -
Biological identifications through DNA barcodes
The foundational paper establishing DNA barcoding as a practical method for species identification. Proposes using a standardised short genetic marker (cytochrome c oxidase... -
Mozambique Environmental & Biodiversity Legislation
Compilation of Mozambique's key environmental and biodiversity laws relevant to freshwater conservation. Lei do Ambiente (Law 20/1997): framework environmental law establishing... -
Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (2022)
The landmark global biodiversity agreement adopted at COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada, on 19 December 2022. Succeeds the Aichi Biodiversity...