Standards

 

Metadata and analytical workflows

Michener, W.K. and M.B. Jones, 2012. Ecoinformatics: supporting ecology as a data-intensive science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27: 85-93. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534711003399

Rocchini, D. and M. Neteler. 2012. Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27. http://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347%2812%2900074-2

Veg-X, an international standard for exchanging vegetation plot data.

Please visit the project homepage at

http://wiki.tdwg.org/Vegetation/
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XML schema for VegBank

For an introduction to VegBank, visit http://www.vegbank.org/general/info.html
For two brief powerpoint tutorials: [VegBank - Why?] [VegBank - What?]

Version 1.0.2 of the VegBank XML has been released. This is available at: http://vegbank.org/vegdocs/xml/vegbank-xml-index.html.

You may track the evolution of the VegBank XML at:
http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/vegbank/docs/xml/db_model_vegbank.xml

XML schema for VegetWeb

Information about VegetWeb
The physical model (VegetWeb v1.1)
The logical model (VegetWeb v1.1)

The most recent XML standard (Schema v2.1)

Download an Access-Tool for creating ESVeg-2 xlm-files

Draft Standards for Biological Collections Data.
This draft might serve as a model for our efforts, and their treatment of taxa might influence the direction we take for taxa in plot data.

http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/