This category of information refers to data or information related to a specific appearance of a taxon (usually a species), whether in nature, in a collection or in a data set.Darwin Core is a set of standards developed and promoted by the international organisation TDWG (Biodiversity) in a Darwin Core Archive (DwCA) format. information Standards) and used by the Global Biodiversity Information Infrastructure (GBIF) network to facilitate the exchange of information on biodiversity.The Darwin Core Archive (DwCA) is a compressed file (Zip), composed of several information files: Flat text file with information, separated by a separator character (coma, semicolon or tabulator). Metadata file (eml.xml), which describes the information in the previous file. It is a file in XML format, which meets the GMP (GBIF Metadata Profile) standard, based on the EML (Ecological Metadata Language).Descriptor file (meta.xml), which describes the organisation of the previous files. It is a file in XML format that indicates how the information of the previous files is organised, as well as the composition of the compressed file.In addition to Darwin Core format, the information is offered in excel and csv.
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