Biological survey and monitoring data publishing guide

Published: Oct 15, 2025 by Steve Baskauf

My coauthors and I have published a guide to help people understand how to use the new Humboldt Extension for Biological Inventories of the Darwin Core standard. The guide includes diagrams and detailed information about how to structure the data to capture the hierarchical structure typically found in monitoring projects.

The guide is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license as a web page and in PDF format at https://docs.gbif.org/guide-publishing-survey-data/en/

The full citation is:

Ingenloff K, Svenningsen C, Earl C, Shimabukuro PHF, Sica Y, Gan Y-M, Kachian ZR, Brenton P, Hochachka W, Wieczorek J, Stevenson R, Kazem A, Baskauf S, Zermoglio PF, Bloom D, Rodrigues A, Gamboa Martínez J & Schigel D. Guide for publishing biological survey and monitoring data to GBIF. GBIF Secretariat: Copenhagen. https://doi.org/10.35035/doc-ynvs-eh84

Biological survey and monitoring data publishing guide

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