README.md

Waarnemingen.be - Non-native animal and plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

This repository is about the datasets Non-native animal occurrences and Non-native plant occurrences derived from https://waarnemingen.be. Natuurpunt manages and validates the source data, INBO provides technical support in publishing these to GBIF.

Useful links

• Animals dataset on the IPT
• Animals dataset on GBIF
• Plants dataset on the IPT
• Plants dataset on GBIF
• Reported issues

Workflow

Data are published automatically on a weekly basis. The IPT is set to auto-publication and will read the latest data directly from a Natuurpunt server. This repo is only for periodic validation and reporting data quality issues.

Repo structure

The repository structure is based on Cookiecutter Data Science and the Checklist recipe. Files and directories indicated with GENERATED should not be edited manually.

├── README.md              : Description of this repository
├── LICENSE                : Repository license
├── .gitignore             : Files and directories to be ignored by git
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├── data
│   ├── raw                : Darwin Core data as published on the IPT
│   └── interim            : Interim exports of the validation script GENERATED
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├── specification          : Specification for the data (used for validation)
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└── notebooks              : Scripts to validate the data