Best Practice Handbook

reBiND Best Practice Handbook

Introduction

• About reBiND
• How to use this manual

The reBiND workflow

• An overview of the reBiND pipeline

System Installation and Administration (Technical information for administrators and IT specialists)

• Installation
• Administration
• Data Rescue - outdated software and hardware

Data Archiving (Information for content administrators and contributing scientists)

• Data Preparation
• Creating a new project
• Uploading data to the reBiND data portal - files less than 1000 ABCD units
• Uploading data to the reBiND data portal - files greater than 1000 ABCD units
• Validation and Corrections
• Manual review of the data file
• Entering metadata
• Publishing and searching the data

Case Studies

• Case studies with single data sets from different providers

Supporting data preparation

• Software Products
• Supporting data preparation procedures

Technical Background

• eXist and xquery
• Ecologial Metadata Language
• ABCD Access to Biological Collection Data, Standard

Glossary

• A description of some of the terms used in this manual

References

• Güntsch, A., Fichtmüller, D., Kirchhoff, A. & Berendsohn, W.G.: Efficient rescue of threatened biodiversity data using reBiND-workflows. In: Plant Biosystems, 146(4) (2012), S. 752-755, DOI:10.1080/11263504.2012.740086

• The BioCASE Provider Software Documentation: http://wiki.bgbm.org/bps/index.php/Main_Page

• BioCASE Biological Collection Access Service: http://www.biocase.org/

• ABCD Schema (Access ot Biological Collection Data); ABCD 2.0 Concepts: http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/ABCD/AbcdConcepts

• GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): http://www.gbif.org/