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Preferred term

DwC-A  

Definition

  • biodiversity informatics data standard that makes use of the Darwin Core terms to produce a single, self contained dataset for sharing species-level (taxonomic), species-occurrence data, and sampling-event data; an archive is a set of text files, in standard comma- or tab-delimited format, with a simple descriptor file (called meta.xml) to inform others how the files are organized

Entry terms

  • Darwin Core Archive

Identifier

  • DWCA

Notation

  • application/gzip
  • application/zip
  • .tar.gz
  • .zip

In other languages

  • DwC-A

    Estonian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/DWCA

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