Records for Fife Nature Records Centre (Additional)

Quality Control

In house quality assurance has been undertaken, including validation processes. Records have been passed through NBN Record Cleaner. Records highlighted by NBN Record Cleaner as requiring further investigation have been excluded unless the determination was by, or verification has been undertaken by, an expert. Fife Nature is currently working to increase the proportion of records which have been verified by experts; if you wish to be involved, please contact us. Any notes on specific data quality issues are encouraged and should be sent via e-mail to Fife Nature. Note that this dataset currently includes only a proportion of the records submitted during the stated period and not all of Fife Nature’s data holdings are currently available via the NBN Gateway / Atlas. To access our most comprehensive and up-to-date data holdings, please contact Fife Nature directly.

Method steps

1. Various: this is a collation of records from a variety of sources submitted to Fife Nature Records Centre.

All records are for Fife with some marine outliers and records for Vice County 85 Fifeshire i.e. including areas of Perth and Kinross. The majority of records in this dataset have at least 100m accuracy.