Category:DwC-A

Darwin Core Archive - the package of files that are created by the IPT process, or custom built by the user. The typical file set is

eml.xml

information about the dataset/recordset, owners, responsible parties, description of the data, etc.

meta.xml

the list of Darwin Core metadata fields that are included in occurrence.txt.

occurrence.txt

the specimen data records.

If metadata (e.g., images) are being included with the specimen data, then these two files

multimedia.txt

the Audubon Core data records that go with each multimedia file.

resourcerelationship.txt

these records come from defining the resource relationship section of the IPT dialog, and are a mapping of the multimedia to the occurrence.txt records.

are part of the package also.