Data Aggregation Overview from Digitization Workshop ASIH 2016
Contents
Statement of Purpose
These links and documents contain information about data aggregation as relevant to natural history collections.
Introduction
Contributors
Content generated during The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) Annual Joint Meeting - 2016, during an iDigBio sponsored workshop by the following individuals participating in the "Digitization" working group of the aforementioned workshop:
- Gil Nelson - Florida State University, Courtesy Facaulty
- Larry Page - The Florida Museum of Natural History, Ichthyology Curator
- Cristina Cox-Fernandes - UMass Amherst Biology, Adjunct Research Associate Professor
- Mark Sabaj - ANSP, Ichthyology Collection Manager
- Adam Summers - University of Washington, Professor - Friday Harbor Labs
- Kevin Love - iDigBio, IT Expert
- Ken Thompson - Lock Haven University, Professor (Retired)
- Randy Singer - Florida Museum of Natural History
- Gregory Watkins-Colwell - Yale Peabody Museum - Herps and Fishes, Collection Manager
Data Aggregation (mobilization)
Data mobilization involves contributing data and media to a designated aggregator (e.g. iDigBio, GBIF, VertNet) via a protocol similar to GBIF’s Integrated Publishing Toolkit. These data are then integrated with data from many institutions to ensure research and other access to more complete datasets.
Examples include:
https://www.idigbio.org/sites/default/files/DataIngestionGuide.pdf
https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/9/92/SantaBarbaraData.pdf
Overview for publishing collections data with iDigBio:
Identifiers (GUID)
All collections should include a globally unique identifier in each record for each specimen. Normally, this GUID is stored in the DarwinCore occurrenceID field. Each GUID should refer to one and only one specimen and should appear in any record which refers to that specimen. Further information about GUIDs can be found in the metadata section of iDigBio’s ingestion guidance document at https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Data_Ingestion_Guidance.
