Best Practice Handbook

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• Data Rescue - outdated software and hardware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 and uploading data to the reBiND data portal
• 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