Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard

Biodiversity data derive from myriad sources stored in various formats on many distinct hardware and software platforms. An essential step towards understanding global patterns of biodiversity is to provide a standardized view of these heterogeneous data sources to improve interoperability. Fundamen...

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Vydané v:	PloS one Ročník 7; číslo 1; s. e29715
Hlavní autori:	Wieczorek, John, Bloom, David, Guralnick, Robert, Blum, Stan, Döring, Markus, Giovanni, Renato, Robertson, Tim, Vieglais, David
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	United States Public Library of Science 06.01.2012 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Predmet:	Advisors Animals Archives & records Biodiversity Biological evolution Biology Biota Biotechnology Communities Computer Science Consortia Data Collection - standards Databases, Factual - standards Developmental biology Distributed processing Documentation Dublin Core Format Earth Sciences Ecology Ecosystems Environment Environmental changes Environmental economics Evolution Evolution, Molecular Genetic algorithms Genetic Fitness - genetics Genetic Fitness - physiology Genetic resources Genomics Guidelines as Topic Humans Informatics Information Storage and Retrieval - standards Interoperability Knowledge management Models, Biological Natural history New records Science Selection, Genetic Taxonomy Trends Validation Studies as Topic Working groups Denmark Washington DC California United States > US
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Shrnutí:	Biodiversity data derive from myriad sources stored in various formats on many distinct hardware and software platforms. An essential step towards understanding global patterns of biodiversity is to provide a standardized view of these heterogeneous data sources to improve interoperability. Fundamental to this advance are definitions of common terms. This paper describes the evolution and development of Darwin Core, a data standard for publishing and integrating biodiversity information. We focus on the categories of terms that define the standard, differences between simple and relational Darwin Core, how the standard has been implemented, and the community processes that are essential for maintenance and growth of the standard. We present case-study extensions of the Darwin Core into new research communities, including metagenomics and genetic resources. We close by showing how Darwin Core records are integrated to create new knowledge products documenting species distributions and changes due to environmental perturbations.
Bibliografia:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 Wrote the paper: JW DB R. Guralnick SB MD R. Giovanni TR DV.
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0029715