Simple Darwin Core for Non-Biologists Primer

Authors

Megan N. O'Donnell, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Leslie M. Delserone, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

4-2023

Citation

Simple Darwin Core for Non-Biologists Primer. Data Curation Network

Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/254322

Data Curation Network Mentor, Jake Carlson (University of Michigan)

https://github.com/DataCurationNetwork/data-primers/blob/master/Simple%20Darwin%20Core%20Primer/dwc.md

Versions Last GitHub Release of DwC: 2021-07-15, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5251698 https://github.com/DataCurationNetwork/data-primers

Abstract

This primer focuses on Simple DwC (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/simple/), a “mechanism used to share biodiversity information using the simplest methods and structure” (Darwin Core Task Group, 2014). With Simple DwC, the DwC schema is applied to a single flat file (i.e., table or spreadsheet). Because it is a self-contained data set that can be opened, edited, and analyzed using a wide variety of software, Simple DwC is easier to implement than other forms of DwC that use XML, RDF, or relational databases. The primer’s goal is to assist a curator presented with a data set structured in Simple DwC, or to assist a curator in a decision to apply the standard to a data set.

This work was created as part of the “Specialized Data Curation” Workshop #3 held at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on November 5-6, 2019.