Darwin Core Webinar (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.

 

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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?

• https://demo.gbif.org/publishing/darwin-core

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):

• http://biodiversity-informatics-training.org/