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Due to the recent establishment of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network
With the ongoing evolution of the TDWG Darwin Core (DwC) standard for specimen data exchange, we generalized Specify 7’s data publishing capabilities to export collections data to any DwC or other standards-based, exchange schema. This generic, external schema mapping capability enables Specify collections to design and map data packages to integrate their data with any community aggregator or collaborative project database based on Darwin Core or other community standard-based format. The development of these versatile new integration capabilities was in collaboration with, and through financial support from GGBN. This talk will highlight these changes in the context of delivery of museum tissue and extract data records to the GGBN data portal for aggregation.
Andrew C Bentley
DBI - ADVANCES IN BIO INFORMATICS
DBI - ADVANCES IN BIO INFORMATICS
ABI Sustaining: Supporting Biological Collections Computing with Specify