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Adventures with the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit

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In order to make citizen science data more discoverable and usable, one strategy is to publish the data to a well recognized, respected and open repository such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF records conform to Darwin Core Standards, community generated standards that ensure that biodiversity metadata is described Continue reading Adventures with the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit→

Bringing more visibility to citizen science data

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For the next month, the cit-sci team and I will be working on an article for the PLOS community page, which publishes short articles of interest to the scientific community. We have been thinking a lot about how to make metadata documentation more user friendly and about how to make citizen Continue reading Bringing more visibility to citizen science data→