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README.md
Darwin Core
Darwin Core is a standard maintained by the Darwin Core maintenance group. 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.
Getting started
Darwin Core quick reference guide
Documents:
- Recommended terms: a CSV file with the current set of Darwin Core terms
- Normative document: a CSV file with the full version history of Darwin Core terms
- Usage guides: Guides on how to use Darwin Core as text, rdf, xml
- Distribution files: Convenient files to start using Darwin Core
Community:
- How to contribute: a guide on how to contribute to Darwin Core
- Darwin Core Q&A: an open forum on the use of Darwin Core
Repo structure
The repository structure is described below. Files/directories indicated with GENERATED should not be edited manually.
├── README.md : Description of this repository
├── LICENSE : Repository license
│
├── vocabulary
│ └── term_versions.csv : The normative document of Darwin Core, where the standard is maintained
│
├── guides
│ ├── simple : Simple Darwin Core guide
│ ├── rdf : RDF guide
│ ├── text : Text guide
│ ├── xml : XML guide
│ └── index.html : GENERATED Darwin Core quick reference guide
│
├── dist : GENERATED Distribution files generated by build.py
│ └── recommended_terms.csv : GENERATED CSV file with the recommended Darwin Core terms
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├── build
│ ├── build.py : Build script to generate distribution files from the normative document
│ └── config : Configuration files for build.py
│ ├── index.tmpl : Template for index.html
│ └── terms_config.csv : Configuration for the recommended terms, incl. order, labels, examples
│
├── .github
│ ├── CONTRIBUTING.md : Guide on how to contribute to Darwin Core
│ └── ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md : Template for issues
│
└── .gitignore : Files and directories to be ignored by git
Contributors
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Recommended citation
For Darwin Core in general, consider the peer-reviewed article on Darwin Core:
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
For this repository:
Darwin Core maintenance group, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) (2014). Darwin Core. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.592792
The citation above represents all versions of the repository. Specific versions/releases from 2011 onwards are also deposited on Zenodo.