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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.
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
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├── vocabulary
│ └── term_versions.csv : The normative document of Darwin Core, where the standard is maintained
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├── src
│ ├── 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
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├── dist : GENERATED Distribution files generated by build.py
│ ├── recommended_terms.csv : GENERATED CSV file with the recommended Darwin Core terms
│ └── index.html : GENERATED Web page with the recommended Darwin Core terms
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├── .github
│ ├── CONTRIBUTING.md : Guide on how to contribute to Darwin Core
│ └── ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md : Template for issues
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└── .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.