EcoPlots data extraction service provides a standarised data package following the Bagit specification. BagIt is currently defined in RFC 8493.
Independently of the output format selected, all packages follow the same hierarchical structure:
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:
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.
Continue reading: CSV output formatGeoJSON: All basic information about datasets, sites, visits and ecological observations returned as a standard GeoJSON object. No further data filtering, cleaning or processing necessary.
TERN Ontology CSV: It contains all information about to the datasets, sites, visits, ecological observations and all their related attributes.
This output establishes links to all informative resources and controlled vocabularies necessary to fully describe the observable properties, feature types, instruments and protocol methods. This output requires more advanced data processing skills as joining tables using external tools like MS Excel, R, Python or any other programming language.
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