10 datasets found

Comprehensive guide produced by GBIF (authors: Lento & Schmidt-Kloiber) specifically for publishing freshwater biodiversity data to the GBIF network. Covers the unique...

Portal for South Africa's GBIF Voting Node, operated by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) through the South African Biodiversity Information Facility...

GBIF's curated training resources for using OpenRefine to clean and transform biodiversity data before publishing. OpenRefine is a free, open-source tool that works locally (no...

Comprehensive GBIF Secretariat publication providing best practices for georeferencing biological occurrence data. Covers theoretical foundations of georeferencing, the point-...

GBIF's comprehensive guide to understanding and creating Darwin Core Archives (DwC-A), the standard exchange format for biodiversity data. Explains the star schema architecture:...

Official specification for the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) version 2.2.0, a comprehensive XML vocabulary designed specifically for documenting ecological and...

Official GBIF documentation on data quality requirements for publishing occurrence, checklist, and sampling-event datasets. Describes over 50 automated data quality flags that...

Official manual for the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), the free, open-source Java application used to publish biodiversity datasets to the GBIF network. Covers...

Foundational peer-reviewed paper describing the Darwin Core standard's history, design principles, community governance model, and practical applications. Traces DwC's evolution...

Official TDWG quick reference for all currently recommended Darwin Core terms. Lists each term with its identifier (URI), label, definition, comments, and examples, organised by...