📓 This repository contains living documentation for anyone working with taxonomic data or looking to learn and contribute to IOOS's best practices for biological data.
- See the "issues" tab above to ask questions or discuss with the IOOS biodata community.
- Also try searching for related issues which are open or have been closed (ie answered)
- 💬 open an issue in the issues tab above
- 💾 small datasets can be uploaded into
./datasets/and we can help you align with best practices - 🔗 dataset repositories or other hosted data can be included in the links in the
Datasetssection below
- Training & workshop documents
- marinebon.org
- more links from IOOS Code Sprint discussions(gdoc)
We have open monthly meetings to discuss marine bio data issues. Please join us next time!
The ./datasets/ directory in this repository contains small datasets which meet one of the following criteria:
- 👷 the community is currently aligning this data
- 📓 the dataset is retained as an instructive example
- 🙊 the lazy maintainers of this repo haven't cleaned it out yet
Ideally each dataset should contain a README.md file with details about the data and the ingestion process for this dataset. A few datasets are highlighted below as especially instructive examples:
- example_script_with_fake_data - fake data crafted by Abby Benson to illustrate a very basic conversion to DwC
Datasets not included in this directory but still meeting one of the criteria above are linked here:
See the guide here
We are documenting, in the form of a 📓 Guide, relevant resources and standards which apply to various marine biological data sets. This is a work in progress, a growing guide that is being put together by scientists and data managers responsible for transforming their data to meet international standards. The Guide is exported into multiple formats, including a pdf and an epub document. Chapters are written in R Markdown files; contributions are welcome!
Technical details of how to work with the book can be found in /building-the-data-guide.md.
This repo has grown out of the 2019 IOOS code sprint. Original documents from the sprint are retained on a fork of this repo in marinebon/bio_data_scripts_ioos_workshop_2019.