Darwin Core

• Name: Darwin Core
• Short Name: DwC
• Description: Darwin Core is a standard maintained by the Darwin Core Maintenance Interest Group. It includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing identifiers, labels, and definitions. Darwin Core is primarily based on taxa, their occurrence in nature as documented by observations, specimens, samples, and related information.
• Web Link: http://www.tdwg.org/standards/450
• Maintainer: Darwin Core Task Group, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
• Disciplines: Biodiversity
• Keywords: biodiversity