Laura Russell VertNet Meherzad Romer NatureServe Canada John Wieczorek Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley Buenos Aires (Argentina) 28 September 2011 Training course on biodiversity data publishing and fitness-for-use in the GBIF Network, 2011 edition Introduction to the new ways of data publishing

Data Publishing Options

Terminology Data Publisher, Provider Data Resource, data set Data resource type (e.g., Metadata, Occurrence, Taxon Data record Data record element, term, field, column, property, attribute, concept (e.g., basisOfRecord, scientificName) Data value Standards, Vocabularies

Data Publishers Institutions with multiple organisational units, each with multiple data resources. Institutions, groups, or individuals with multiple data resources. Institutions or individuals with a single data resource.

Data Resource Types Primary Biodiversity Data (Specimens & Observations, Ecological Data) Core data type is an Occurrence of a organism Taxonomic Catalogues*, and Annotated Species Checklists. Core data type is a Taxon * To distinguish our efforts from COL – GBIF provides the means not the ends Enriched resource metadata – primarily focused on Occurrence and Taxon data sets.

Data Records Taxon resource type Occurrence resource type

Data Fields Taxon resource type Occurrence resource type

Data Values Taxon resource type Occurrence resource type

Data Standards Primary Biodiversity Data Taxonomic Data Darwin Core 172 Terms Ratified in 2009 Text files Extensible Metadata Ecological Metadata Language (EML) Rich data set descriptions GBIF Profile

Data Publishing Options

Suppose TAPIR allows 1000 records per request For a data set of records: 260 data exchanges / 500MB total data transfer 2 hours to harvest Only 32MB of the transferred data are "used" for the GBIF network Tapir Example

Data Publishing Options

For a data set of records: 1 data exchanges / 3MB total data transfer seconds to harvest Darwin Core Archive Example Darwin Core Archive

For a data set of records: 1 data exchanges / 3MB total data transfer seconds to harvest Darwin Core Archive Example Darwin Core Archive Compare to Tapir/DiGIR/BioCASE: 260 data exchanges / 500MB total data transfer 2 hours to harvest

Simple format (text files) Efficient storage (compressed) Efficient harvesting (single file) Easy access (no special software required) Extensible (related files in one archive) Darwin Core Archive: Benefits Preferred format for publishing data in the GBIF network

Data Discovery

GBIF Registry

GBIF Data Portal

GBIF Online Resource Centre ( Data Publishing Documentation

IPT v2 User Manual providertoolkit/wiki/IPT2ManualNotes Publishing Using Dropbox References

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