GBIF metadata repository

Collection website

Geographic data: coordinates format

provinces in countries countries/provinces bounding-box

Yes

Digitisation of biodiversity data specimen code, identification(s), det.,

locality, date, habitat, leg., sex,

biological phase, observations

ZOORBAR

Preparation & preservation (deparasitation, extension,

pinned, put in envelopment…)

Specimens from the Collection

Preservation

status ok?

Identification

label present?

Identification

specimen Review

identification

labels/primary

publications

georeferenced?

Retrospective georeferencing Digital cartography & gazetteer

Complete locality data: coordinates, altitude, uncertainty

radius, municipality

Export data: DarwinCorev1.2

Data quality control DARWIN_TEST

Taxonomic data: thesaurus

Other data: ASCII anomalous characters

det./leg. date coherence

All OK?

Fix data

Generalise sensitive species

data

Generate metadata DarwinCore Archive

Dataset release

Local GBIF IPT Datapaper

No

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Digitisation of biodiversity collections:

BOS Arthropod Collection Workflow

Torralba-Burrial & Ocharan 2013. ZooKeys 306: 37-58