Requisitos de qualidade de dados

Publishers play an essential role not simply in sharing datasets, but also in managing their quality, completeness and usefulness and ensuring their integration and value within GBIF’s global knowledge base.

Male baya weaver (<em>Ploceus philippinus</em>) waits outside as a female inspects the nest he built from inside. Females baya weavers select mates on the basis of the quality of nest construction. Photo by Malay Mehta via <a href="https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/891775469">iNaturalist Research-grade observations</a>, licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>. — Male baya weaver (*Ploceus philippinus*) waits outside as a female inspects the nest he built from inside. Females baya weavers select mates on the basis of the quality of nest construction. Photo by Malay Mehta via iNaturalist Research-grade observations, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

To share data through GBIF.org, publishers typically have to collate or transform existing datasets into a standardized format. This work may include additional processing, content editing and mapping a dataset’s content into one of the available data transfer formats, as well as publication through one of the available data publishing tools, such as GBIF's free, open-source Integrated Publishing Toolkit or IPT.

Once published, GBIF’s real-time infrastructure ‘indexes’ or ‘harvests’ new datasets, integrating them into a common access system where users can retrieve any and all data through common search and download services. As datasets are indexed, GBIF.org performs additional checks, interpretation and conversion routines to ensure that data are interoperable and comply with minimum standards of data formats, data quality and fitness for use. Many criteria for quality and usability of data, however, are best and most easily handled when addressed at their source: the individual dataset.

Publishers thus play an essential role not simply in sharing datasets, but also in managing their quality, completeness and usefulness as well as ensuring their integration and value within GBIF’s global knowledge base. Learn more about data quality requirements and recommendations for

Na prática, encorajamos os responsáveis pela publicação de dados a familiarizarem-se com os formatos de dados e requisitos de conteúdo esperados o mais cedo possível no processo (ver também os modelos Excel pré-configurados do GBIF com termos obrigatórios e recomendados para conjuntos de dados de ocorrência< /0>, checklists e conjuntos de dados de eventos de amostragem, todos disponíveis com dados de exemplo). Doing so will save a lot of effort that may be needed at later stages, for example, in adding data conversions, capturing information for required or strongly recommended fields, or performing and addressing final pre-publication data-quality checks.