The Darwin Core Standard is maintained by Biodiversity Information Standards,
previously known as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group and known by the
acronym 'TDWG'. This tibble is the full list of supported terms,
current as of 2024-12-10.
Users can use occurrence_terms() and event_terms() as convenience
functions to access these terms.
Format
A tibble containing valid Darwin Core Standard terms (206 rows x 6 columns).
Column descriptions are as follows:
- class
TDWG group that a term belongs to.
- term
Column header names that can be used in Darwin Core
- url
Stable url to information describing the term.
- definition
Human-readable definition of the term.
- comments
Further information from TDWG.
- examples
Examples of how the field should be populated.
- set_functions
Function in corella that supports Darwin Core term.
Source
Slightly modified version of a table supplied by TDWG.
See also
occurrence_terms() and event_terms() to get terms for use in
dplyr::select()