Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
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Corresponding author: Willem Coetzer (w.coetzer@saiab.ac.za)
Received: 27 Sep 2020 | Published: 28 Sep 2020
© 2020 Willem Coetzer
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Coetzer W (2020) Development of Protocols and Tools to Manage and Archive Data from Aquatic Biodiversity Surveys. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59027. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59027
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Traditionally the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (
The objective of this case study was to elicit the data management requirements of researchers conducting aquatic biodiversity field surveys (or biodiversity inventories, in the broadest sense of the term, including opportunistic sampling). These requirements were used to develop a prototype solution for research data management (data curation and archiving), supported by various tools, templates and protocols.
An important motivation was to publish records standardised according to the Darwin Core Event Class (
The scope of the case study included:
An important part of the case study was to test the degree to which the schema and applications of the Specify suite of software (
biodiversity inventories, Darwin Core Event Class, research data management, data curation, data archiving
Willem Coetzer
TDWG 2020