[clean] Biodiversity data papers are a special kind of scientific publication. As explained by Chavan and Penev (2011) : A data paper is a journal publication whose primary purpose is to describe data, rather than to report a research investigation. As such, it contains facts about data, not hypot…

[image] datafixer: The non-GBIF datasets had the same range of problems as the GBIF ones, but between-field and within-field problems were much less common in datasets which did not use the Darwin Core framework. Ergh. This is the exact opposite of what you’d expect an exchange standard to en…

@francois in you career, you have direct experience with exactly what @datafixer outlines so clearly. Note his statement “many compilers do not have the necessary knowledge or skills to produce tidy, complete, consistent and Darwin Core-compliant datasets.” What other skills would you add to this …

Thanks @datafixer for addressing some of the questions asked in this thread about Workforce capacity development and inclusion . Here’s a bit on what funders like #NSF could do to potentially help raise the importance and value of these types of data products. In theory anyway, increased value (perc…

@dshorthouse Most of the non-GBIF datasets were simple data tables that were neither checklists nor lists of occurrences, so the DwC standard wouldn’t apply.

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100 GBIF datasets, improved

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