GGBN data standard

The GGBN Data Standard is a set of vocabularies designed to represent tissue, DNA or RNA samples associated to voucher specimens, tissue samples and collections.

Darwin Core
The standard is here: http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/GGBN_Data_Standard.

The pages in the GBIF sandbox, in combination with the star diagram – that was lifted from the GGBN website, http://wiki.bgbm.org/dnabankwiki/index.php/DwC – are much more useful.



Core
 * Darwin Core Material Sample

Extensions
 * GGBN Amplification Extension
 * GGBN DNA Cloning Extension
 * GGBN Gel Image Extension
 * GGBN Loan Extension
 * GGBN Material Sample Extension
 * GGBN Permit Extension
 * GGBN Preparation Extension
 * ggbn:Preservation
 * GGBN Single Read Extension appears not to exist
 * Darwin Core Identification History
 * Darwin Core Resource Relationship
 * Literature References

ABCD
The ABCD implementation of the GGBN standard can be found at http://data.ggbn.org/schemas/ggbn/terms/ABCDGGBN.html. The second part is the interesting bit. The first part is ABCD, of which the GGBN module is an extension. As usual in ABCD, this is a deeply nested structure that might be quite hard to follow. It is probably closer to what the underlying database might look like than the highy denormalised Darwin Core implementation.