This session gives an introduction to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and international standards for primary biodiversity information with focus on the Darwin Core standard.
- Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
- Darwin Core standard (Wieczorek et al. 2012).
- Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A data exchange document format).
- Core data types supported in GBIF: Taxon, Occurrence, and Sampling-event
- GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT data exchange document format (Robertson et al. 2014).
- Spreadsheet template available at https://data.gbif.no/dwcexcel/ and here.
- GBIF Taxon backbone, taxize, taxize tutorial (more information).
- Brief R settings and hints >> Rmd script (more in session 2)
- Brief intro to rgbif >> Rmd script (more in session 3)
- Session 1 slides
Navigate to workshop home (Github) or the GitHub.io pages.
Session 1 HTML version here >> (setup.html >> gbif_intro.html
