mirror of https://github.com/tdwg/dwc.git
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# Darwin Core
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Darwin Core is a standard maintained by the [Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group](https://www.tdwg.org/standards/dwc/#maintenance%20group). 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 identifiers, labels, and definitions. Darwin Core is primarily based on taxa, their occurrence in nature as documented by observations, specimens, samples, and related information.
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## Getting started
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[Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide](https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/)
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Documents:
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- [List of terms document](https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/): Comprehensive metadata for current and obsolete terms in human readable form
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- [Complete term history table](vocabulary/term_versions.csv): A CSV file with the full version history of Darwin Core terms
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- [Distribution documents](dist/): Simple CSV files to start using Darwin Core
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- [Website documents](docs/): Markdown files that form the source for the [Darwin Core website](https://dwc.tdwg.org/)
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Community:
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- [How to contribute](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md): a guide on how to contribute to Darwin Core
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- [Darwin Core Q&A](https://github.com/tdwg/dwc-qa): an open forum on the use of Darwin Core
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## Repo structure
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The repository structure is described below. Files/directories indicated with `GENERATED` should not be edited manually.
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```
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├── .github
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│ ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE : Directory of issue templates generated by GitHub
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│ ├── CONTRIBUTING.md : Guide on how to contribute, create issues, etc.
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│
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├── build
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│ ├── doe-cv-build : Directory of build scripts for the degreeOfEstablishment controlled vocabulary
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│ ├── em-cv-build : Directory of build scripts for the establishmentMeans controlled vocabulary
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│ ├── pw-cv-build : Directory of build scripts for the pathway controlled vocabulary
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│ ├── README.md : Workflow for generating a new version of the vocabulary
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│ ├── build-termlist.ipynb : Juyter notebook to construct the term list
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│ ├── build-temlist.py : Script to build Markdown pages that provide term metadata for complex vocabularies
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│ ├── build.py : Build script to generate distribution files from the normative document
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│ ├── generate_term_versions.py : Script to build the terms_versions.csv file
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│ ├── qrg-list.csv : List of the term IRIs in the order that they are to appear in the Quick Reference Guide
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│ ├── requirements.txt : List of libraries required by the build scripts
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│ ├── termlist-footer.md : Footer to append to the generated term list document
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│ ├── termlist-header.md : Header to prepend to the generated term list document
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│ ├── terms.tmpl : A Jinja2 template to format the Quick Reference Guide
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│ └── workflow_diagram.png : Figure used in README.md to show how to create a new version of the standard
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├── dist : GENERATED Distribution files generated by build.py
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│ ├── simple_dwc_horizontal.csv : GENERATED CSV file with Simple Darwin Core terms as a row
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│ └── simple_dwc_vertical.csv : GENERATED CSV file with Simple Darwin Core terms as a column
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│
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├── docs
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│ ├── doe : Degree of Establishment Controlled Vocabulary List of Terms
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│ ├── em : Establishment Means Controlled Vocabulary List of Terms
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│ ├── list : Darwin Core List of Terms documents
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│ ├── namespace : Darwin Core namespace policy
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│ ├── pw : Pathway Controlled Vocabulary List of Terms
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│ ├── rdf : Darwin Core RDF Guide
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│ ├── simple : Simple Darwin Core Guide
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│ ├── terms : GENERATED Quick Reference Guide
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│ ├── text : Darwin Core Text Guide (Darwin Core Archive specification)
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│ ├── xml : Darwin Core XML Guide
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│ ├── _data : Website navigation and footer
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│ ├── _config.yml : Jekyll site configuration
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│ ├── CNAME : Canonical Name record for dwc.tdwg.org
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│ └── index.md : Website home page
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│
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├── vocabulary
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│ └── term_versions.csv : Darwin Core term versions, contains the complete history of the terms
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│
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├── .gitignore : Files and directories to be ignored by git
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├── LICENSE : Repository license
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└── README.md : Description of this repository
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```
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## Contributors
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[List of contributors](https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/contributors)
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## License
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[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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## Recommended citation
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For Darwin Core in general, consider the peer-reviewed article on Darwin Core:
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> Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, et al. (2012) Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
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For this repository:
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> Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) (2014). Darwin Core. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.592792
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The citation above represents all versions of the repository. Specific [versions/releases](https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/releases) from 2011 onwards are also deposited on Zenodo.
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