CYWG iDigBio DwC-A Pull Ingestion: Difference between revisions

Software providers who wish to build a new data publishing mechanism should follow the publishing feed pattern of one of the four existing well-known  feed generators. The feed should comply with either the RSS or Atom XML publishing specifications. The common fields for each type (IPT, Symbiota, Feeder, or EasyCapture) are listed below. This ensures that RSS feed consumers can properly parse out the needed fields to access the data files and metadata about the datasets being provided.