Research Data Repositories: Difference between revisions

iDigBio highly recommends including the occurrenceID (Occurence ID) and/or iDigBio recordID data with each of the data records. If the data have been derived from voucher specimens, also include the institution code, collection code and collection number (and/or the collector and collection number so their efforts can also be acknowledged). This allows for downstream data tracking and appropriate data citation of both your efforts and of the original specimen and the collection which houses it. It allows institutions and collections to discover any data quality improvements you may have made, and incorporate them for future publication and collections management. Some journals, such as Pensoft, are making it easy to import occurrence records into manuscripts from data repositories, such as iDigBio, GBIF, PlutoF and BOLD.  Regardless of its publication status, iDigBio recommends that researchers publish biodiversity data to a public data repository for data discovery, preservation, and for reproducible science.