If you want to learn more about Darwin Core - why not go to the source!
Darwin Core was largely developed by a series of US biodiversity research projects including iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) as one of the most recent.
Darwin Core webinar series: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-webinar-series
Darwin Core webinar wiki: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa/wiki/Webinars
Connect at: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
The recording of each seminar available from iDigBio shortly after each live webinar.
Darwin Core Hour Vimeo Album: https://vimeo.com/album/4407185
Webinar program for 2017 is available here.
Darwin Core documentation:
- Darwin Core home page: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/
- Darwin Core terms definitions: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/
- TDWG Terms Wiki: http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/Darwin_Core
- Darwin Core Questions & Answers: https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa
- Darwin Core extensions: http://tools.gbif.org/dwca-validator/extensions.do
What is Darwin Core, and why does it matter?
Darwin Core spreadsheet templates:
- Taxon checklists: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/checklistData
- Species occurrences: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/occurrenceData
- Sampling events: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/samplingEventData
Create and publish Darwin Core using the IPT (GBIF Integrated data Publishing Toolkit):
- IPT home page: http://www.gbif.org/ipt
- User manual: https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes.wiki
GBIF IPT data models:
- http://rs.gbif.org/
- http://rs.gbif.org/core/
- http://rs.gbif.org/extension/
- http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/
Data quality guidelines:
- https://github.com/gbif/ipt/wiki/dataQualityChecklist
- http://www.gbif.org/publishing-data/quality
- Principles of Data Quality (2005), http://www.gbif.org/resource/80509
- Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning (2005), http://www.gbif.org/resource/80528
- Uses of primary species occurrence data (2005), http://www.gbif.org/resource/80545
Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum (see also):
