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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
Conference Abstract
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Mieke Strong‡, Piers Higgs§|
Corresponding author: Mieke Strong (mieke.strong@gaiaresources.com.au), Piers Higgs (piers.higgs@gaiaresources.com.au)
Received: 14 Sep 2023 | Published: 15 Sep 2023
© 2023 Mieke Strong, Piers Higgs
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Strong M, Higgs P (2023) Mapping between Darwin Core and the Australian Biodiversity Information Standard: A linked data example. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e112722. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112722
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Abstract
The Australian Biodiversity Information Standard (ABIS) is a data standard that has been developed to represent and exchange biodiversity data expressed using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). ABIS has the TERN ontology at its core, which is a conceptual information model that represents plot-based ecological surveys. The RDF-linked data structure is self-describing, composed of “triples”. This format is quite different from tabular data. During the Australian federal government Biodiversity Data Repository pilot project, occurrence data in tabular Darwin Core format was converted into ABIS linked data. This lightning talk will describe the approach taken, the challenges that arose, and the ways in which data using Darwin Core terms can be represented in a different way using linked data technologies.
Keywords
linked data, RDF, Darwin Core, data standards
Presenting author
Mieke Strong
Presented at
TDWG 2023
Hosting institution
Gaia Resources