Darwin Core is a vocabulary standard for transmitting information about biodiversity. This document lists all terms in namespaces currently used in the vocabulary.

Prefix

dwc

Keywords

biodiversity biological sample annotation geographical location life science taxonomic classification

Links

Homepage Repository Request Discussion

Contact

John Wieczorek   0000-0003-1144-0290   tucotuco

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Missing LUI pattern

Example Local Unique Identifier

Dataset   Resolve

Example CURIE

dwc:Dataset

Publications

• 2014 The GBIF integrated publishing toolkit: facilitating the efficient publishing of biodiversity data on the internet
• 2014 Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives
• 2012 Darwin Core: an evolving community-developed biodiversity data standard

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 1 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier Dataset is used to demonstrate the providers available for Darwin Core Terms. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.