Data Ingestion Guidance: Difference between revisions

When providing us access to your data, we highly encourage you to provide your aggregated data one provider at a time, each in their own Darwin Core archive. Each dataset should be paired with a separate EML file that includes the metadata about the dataset (such as a list of contacts). iDigBio is moving towards providing data quality feedback, data correction, annotations, and other value-added information back to the providers and thus we want individual contact information for each source provider where possible. The hope is that the information could be re-integrated at the source so that higher quality data would be in place for the provider as well as be available to downstream data consumers such as iDigBio and GBIF.