Digital Dataset Publishing

This document shows how NPL created standardized data sets for publication with GBIF, VertNet and other data aggregators. It is up to the individual content providers to ensure the quality of the data that they provide.

I am basing the categories off of the Darwin Core Terms  found at rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm, in the order they are listed on that webpage. I'm not covering all of them, only the ones I use.

Sections in this Chapter:

• Creating consistent data sets

• NPL's Darwin Core mappings

• Institution Medatata form

• Publishing the data set

• including Images with your data set