includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing reference definitions, examples, and commentaries.
stage of the biological individual(s) at the time the Occurrence was recorded. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary. Examples: "egg", "e ", "juvenile", "adult", "2 adults 4 juveniles". For discussion see occurrenceID catalogNumber recordedBy individualCount sex lifeStage http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/dwc:lifeStage
data standard that makes use of the Darwin Core terms to produce a single, self-contained dataset for species occurrence, checklist or sample based data.
open sourced, web-based application that: Map your data to DwC Terms Describe your dataset Zip your Data+Metadata into DarwinCore Archive Publish your data on the internet Register your dataset into GBIF registry Administer users, their roles and priviledges
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