Using Biodiversity Data Best Practices

Mission

Formulate a set of best practices for users of biodiversity data that would maintain licensing and attribution throughout the data usage and publishing lifecycle.

Goals

Create a document based on best practices culled from leaders in the biodiversity, library sciences, and archiving communities.

Members

• Reed Beaman
• David Bloom
• Joanna McCaffrey

Draft of Ideas

• maintain GUID and licensing information from the provider, and intervening aggregators
• associate a value-added dataset with its GUID, e.g., DOI, ARK
• preserve annotations, and publish them back to the providers (ambiguous)
• publish to a long-term repository of citations documenting use of datasets, e.g., Dryad
• ref: NEON for best practices