Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard
dc.contributor.author | Wieczorek, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Bloom, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Gualnick, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Blum, Stan | |
dc.contributor.author | Döring, Markus | |
dc.contributor.author | Giovanni, Renato | |
dc.contributor.author | Robertson, Tim | |
dc.contributor.author | Vieglais, David A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-14T21:45:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-14T21:45:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-01-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wieczorek, J., Bloom, D., Guralnick, R., Blum, S., Döring, M., Giovanni, R., … Vieglais, D. (2012). Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE, 7(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029715 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13176 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Funding: The U.S. National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/) funded three individual projects that contributed to Darwin Core: Species Analyst Project (NSF-9808739), ORNIS (DBI-0345448), and MaNIS (DBI-0108161). The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation provided individual grants to the BioGeomancer Project and to TDWG, both of which had influence on the Darwin Core (http://www.moore.org/). Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF, sponsored a workshop to prepare Darwin Core for the standards track, in February 2009 (http://www.gbif.org/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. | |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | |
dc.rights | Copyright: © 2012 Wieczorek et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Archives | |
dc.subject | Biodiversity | |
dc.subject | Conservation Science | |
dc.subject | Data Processing | |
dc.subject | Genomics | |
dc.subject | Language | |
dc.subject | Paleogenetics | |
dc.subject | Plant Genomics | |
dc.title | Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Vieglais, David | |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0029715 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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