Darwin Core Webinar (iDigBio)
Learn more about Darwin Core! GBIF.no recommends our data nodes in Norway to follow the new and informative series of webinars on Darwin Core from the US-based iDigBio.
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):