European Ocean Biogeographic Information System

Inventory of biogeographical datasets

Please submit any information about datasets relevant to EurOBIS through this online form. Although there's a strong emphasis on biogeographical information, any dataset is more than welcome. If you want to get some examples and additional information about the fill-in fields, press the i-button. Do not hesitate to get in touch if some of the items in the form are not clear.

The fields with an asterisk * indicate required fields.

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General

Person filling in this form*

Institute

Contact email*

Full name of the dataset*

Citation*

Access Constraints
Attribution (CC BY) Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC BY-ND) Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) CC 0 (No Rights Reserved) Collection cost charge Commercially available Distribution cost charge For more information on the restrictions, use contact information. Licence Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright) Restricted The data can be made available upon approval of the data provider, please contact data@vliz.be. The data can be made available upon request, please use contact information. Unrestricted Unrestricted after moratorium period Unrestricted for academic use

Dataset version

Version date

Abstract*

Extensive description of the dataset

Keyword(s)
[lookup]

Habitat

Marine waters

Brackish waters

Fresh waters

Status of the data collection
In Progress Completed

Basis of the distribution records
Field work Literature Museum species Other,specify:

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People involved

Name and contact of person

Institute

Role

Contact Co-ordinator Data creator Data owner

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Taxonomic cover

Taxonomic scope
[lookup in WoRMS]

Total number of species included (approx.)

The taxonomic names have been matched with WoRMS names

What type(s) are the data points?

presence

counts

biomass

density

other- specify:

Any other parameter(s) measured?

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Geographical cover

Geographical scope*
[lookup]

Min. lat

Min. lon

Max. lat

Max. lon

Geographical resolution

Total number of localities/stations included (approx.)

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Temporal cover

 
Date of first record   
Date of last record   

 year
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 month
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 day
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Temporal resolution
Daily Monthly Hourly Yearly Quasi continuous (< 1 min.) Unknown Weekly Two-weekly Seasonally Not relevant Every two days Twice a year Each 10 minutes Two-yearly Five-yearly Three-yearly Other, specify:

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Reference

Reference(s) of publication(s) that was based on this dataset (one reference per textfield)

Reference(s) of publication(s) that describe this dataset in detail (one reference per textfield)

Format in which the dataset is available

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EurOBIS

Will the dataset be made available to EurOBIS?
Not yet decided No Yes Yes, but with restrictions, specify:

How will the dataset be transferred to EurOBIS?
Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) Sending a digital copy to VLIZ (via email or FTP) Upload the file via this form Webservice (WFS, REST, SOAP, ...) via SeaDataNet Other, specify:

Upload dataset file (max. 10MB)

Request DOI

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Comments

Is the dataset complete? Any additional comments?

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