The Darwin Core is body of standards. It includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing reference definitions, examples, and commentaries. Is primarily based on taxa, their ...
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.592792
Last Update: 2018
Data management Species populations Terrestrial Marine Freshwater Plants Mammals Reptiles Butterflies Other Invertebrates Birds Fishes Amphibians Macroinvertebrates
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The Darwin Core is body of standards. It includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing reference definitions, examples, and commentaries. Is primarily based on taxa, their occurrence in nature as documented by observations, specimens, samples, and related information.
Monitoring program(s) or initiative(s) using the tool:
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) as well as their respective nodes (aprox. 53 countries), The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM), Mammal Networked Information System (MaNIS), Ornithological Information System (ORNIS), HerpNet, FishNet 2, VertNet, Sistema Nature 3.0, Encyclopedia of Life, Integrated Digitized Biocollections.
| Contact person: | John Wieczorek |
|---|---|
| Contact e-mail: | tuco@berkeley.edu |
| Contact Organization: | Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) |
| License: | CC BY |
| Technical Status: | Unknown |
| URL(s): |
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms https://github.com/tdwg/dwc |
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