Assessing the Primary Data Hosted by the Spanish Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Javier Otegui; Arturo H. Ariño; María A. Encinas; Francisco Pando

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055144

Loading metrics

Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

Assessing the Primary Data Hosted by the Spanish Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Javier Otegui ,

* E-mail: javier.otegui@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Ecology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
⨯
Arturo H. Ariño,

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Ecology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
⨯
María A. Encinas,

Affiliation Unidad de Coordinación de la Infraestructura Mundial de Información en Biodiversidad (GBIF) en España, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain
⨯
Francisco Pando

Affiliation Unidad de Coordinación de la Infraestructura Mundial de Información en Biodiversidad (GBIF) en España, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain
⨯

Assessing the Primary Data Hosted by the Spanish Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Javier Otegui,
Arturo H. Ariño,
María A. Encinas,
Francisco Pando

Published: January 25, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055144

Reader Comments

Post a new comment on this article

programmatic data validation and cleansing

Posted by dshorthouse on 01 Feb 2013 at 17:22 GMT

Picking up on the authors' conclusions, the Canadensys team at the University of Montréal is leading the development of a library of data cleansing tools to tackle dates, geospatial data, numeric ranges, and scientific names. These are in various stages of development. We are actively seeking feedback and contributions: https://github.com/Canade...

No competing interests declared.

Subject Areas
?

For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here.
We want your feedback. Do these Subject Areas make sense for this article? Click the target next to the incorrect Subject Area and let us know. Thanks for your help!

Biodiversity
Is the Subject Area "Biodiversity" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Taxonomy
Is the Subject Area "Taxonomy" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Controlled vocabularies
Is the Subject Area "Controlled vocabularies" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Plant taxonomy
Is the Subject Area "Plant taxonomy" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Latitude
Is the Subject Area "Latitude" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Animal taxonomy
Is the Subject Area "Animal taxonomy" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Longitude
Is the Subject Area "Longitude" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.
Metadata
Is the Subject Area "Metadata" applicable to this article?

Thanks for your feedback.

Assessing the Primary Data Hosted by the Spanish Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Assessing the Primary Data Hosted by the Spanish Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Reader Comments

Post Your Discussion Comment

Why should this posting be reviewed?

Thank You!

programmatic data validation and cleansing

Posted by dshorthouse on 01 Feb 2013 at 17:22 GMT