Darwin Core Archive, the standard data format for biodiversity information, and its extension “Sample-based Data” for ecological data

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  • Osawa Takeshi
    Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO Japan Node of Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Totsu Kumiko
    National Institute for Environmental Studies Japan Node of Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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  • 生物多様性情報の標準データフォーマットDarwin Core Archiveと生態学データに適合させる拡張形式“Sample-based Data”
  • セイブツ タヨウ セイジョウホウ ノ ヒョウジュン データフォーマット Darwin Core Archive ト セイタイガク データ ニ テキゴウ サセル カクチョウ ケイシキ"Sample-based Data"

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Darwin Core/Darwin Core Archive is a standard data format used for biodiversity information. However, because Darwin Core generally supports presence-only data, it is difficult to adapt to other types of ecological data, such as presence/absence data and monitoring data. In 2015, the Biodiversity Information Standards Taxonomic Databases Working Group, which is responsible for maintaining Darwin Core, released a new type of information to be handled in Darwin Core called “Sample-based Data”, to adapt quantitative information, particularly ecological monitoring and assessment data. Sample-based Data has great potential for facilitating data sharing and integration, which is one of the goals of several biodiversity-related communities, such as The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network. In this article, we describe both Darwin Core and Sample-based Data in detail to facilitate biodiversity data sharing and integration in Japan.

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