FAIRsharing record for: Darwin Core

This FAIRsharing record describes: Darwin Core (DwC) is a vocabulary that includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing identifiers, labels, and definitions. The Darwin Core is primarily based on the observation, specimen and samples of taxa. The Darwin Core standard is comprised of one vocabulary (the Darwin Core vocabulary), and six associated documents. The vocabulary itself is composed of four term lists: Darwin Core terms borrowed from the Dublin Core legacy and terms namespace, Darwin Core IRI-value Term Analogs, and the core terms defined by Darwin Core.