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Data guidelines for occurrences

Dimi Brosens edited this page Mar 12, 2021 · 6 revisions

Terms

Term Status
occurrenceID Required
locality Share if available
verbatimLocality Do not use
collectionID discussion needed

Details

occurrenceID

Should be globally unique and ideally stable.

locality

Place name or locality description. Can be verbatim or corrected.

verbatimLocality

We previously used this field to to indicate that locality information was not cleaned. Since this field doesn't end up in GBIF csv downloads, we now recommend to use locality instead.

collectionID

Use this to identify the digital collection (or specimen collection) within an institute