When a dataset is requested from EcoPlots via the search interface, EcoPlots creates a downloadable package based on user selection. Users can select multiple output formats, including CSV, GeoJSON, and TERN Ontology CSV. Data and associated metadata are packaged in BagIT specifications. All individual file formats are made available in a single data packager.
Technical information about Ecoplots data packages
EcoPlots' data extraccion extraction service provides a standarised standardised data package following the Bagit specification. BagIt , which is currently defined in RFC 8493.
Independently of the output format selected, all packages follow the same hierarchical structure:
| Code Block |
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package_ABCDEF123456/
|-- data
| |-- ABCDEF123456.bib (metadata)
| |-- ABCDEF123456.ris (metadata)
| |-- data_dictionary.csv (metadata)
| \-- plant-specimen_observations.csv (data)
|-- manifest-md5.txt (metadata)
| 25b4f5e0d32e64ef43d902ab72f90494 data/plant-specimen_observations.csv
| 971be7d1613b8d3777ea90e3fa4e550c data/data_dictionary..csv
| 06090051dc4c5642c13cd196b7e036ce data/ABCDEF123456.bib
| fc73b1b6a00159f683b2857721c2852f data/ABCDEF123456.ris
|-- tagmanifest-md5.txt (metadata)
|-- bagit-info.txt (metadata)
\-- bagit.txt (metadata)
BagIt-Version: 0.97
Tag-File-Character-Encoding: UTF-8 |
This service allows users to retrieve the data in one (or more) of the following formats:
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CSV: It contains all basic information about datasets, sites, visits and ecological observations in a bunch of CSV files. No further data filtering, cleaning or processing necessary.
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GeoJSON: All basic information about datasets, sites, visits and ecological observations returned as a standard GeoJSON object. No further data filtering, cleaning or processing necessary.
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