AVH data Darwin Core Archive

Darwin Core Archive
Harvested and aggregated AVH data is forwarded to ALA in the form of Darwin Core Archives. The composition of a Darwin Core Archive is described in the Darwin Core Text Guide.

Two example Darwin Core files can be downloaded from the links below.


 * [[File:MEL_0600000.zip]]
 * [[File:MEL_types.zip]]

The files have been automatically generated from the BioCASe provider output. Only the data set metadata has been done manually for now.

meta.xml file
The meta.xml file is a simple XML file that tells what the structure of the archive is and what the columns in the CSV files represent.

This file is up-to-date to August 16, 2013. The up-to-date version can be found on the project's GitHub site.

If you are keen you can copy and paste the contents of this box into the GBIF Darwin Core Archive Validator and confirm that it is valid Darwin Core Text, even though quite a few concepts can not be mapped.

eml.xml file
File containing the metadata for the data set, using a subset of EML (Ecological Markup Language), as recommended by GBIF.

Different providers provide different metadata fields at the moment and the structure of the data set metadata in ABCD is quite different from that in EML, so this still requires some work.