Darwin core: An evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wieczorek, John ^a   Bloom, David ^a   Guralnick, Robert ^b   Blum, Stan ^c   Döring, Markus ^d   Giovanni, Renato ^e   Robertson, Tim ^d   Vieglais, David ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^d Global Biodiversity Information Facility   (Denmark)

^e Centro de Referencia em Informaao Ambiental   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CASE STUDY; COMMUNITY; DARWIN CORE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ENVIRONMENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84855417923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029715     Document Type: Article

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