European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Inventory of biogeographical datasets

The dataset submit form can be used to describe your dataset in the IMIS information system, and also to archive and share your dataset by creating a formal data publication and assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). IMIS strives to follow the FAIR principles, please consider this when filling out the form.
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 . Do not hesitate to get in touch if some of the items in the form are not clear.

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General

Person filling in this form *

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Institute *

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Contact email *

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Dataset description

Dataset title *

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Acronym

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Citation *

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Access Constraints *

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CC 0 (No Rights Reserved) Attribution (CC BY) Public Domain Mark (No Known Copyright) 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) Unrestricted after moratorium period, specify: Unrestricted for academic use Restricted, specify: The data can be made available upon request, please use contact information. For more information on the restrictions, use contact information.

Abstract *

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Description +

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Keyword(s) *

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[lookup]

Habitat + Findable,
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Marine waters

Brackish waters

Fresh waters

Terrestrial

People involved

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Name and contact of person

Institute

Role

Contact Co-ordinator Data creator Data owner

Reference

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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) +

Dataset details

Taxonomic cover

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Taxonomic scope
[lookup in WoRMS]

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?

Geographical cover

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Geographical scope *
[lookup]

Min. lat +

Min. lon +

Max. lat

Max. lon

Temporal cover

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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:

Measurements

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Parameter

Unit

Method/Protocol

The dataset

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Indicate how we can obtain or reference your dataset *
I will upload the data via this webformYou can download the data from ...specifyI have put my data in the MDA, they are here ...specify Please reference my data using this web address(s) ...specify

Upload dataset file (max. 10MB)

Request DOI

File format +

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Status of the data collection *

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In Progress Completed

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

Data Integration

Contribute your biological and physicochemical data of the Scheldt Estuary to the Scheldt data portal

Contribute your biological and physicochemical data of the BCP to IMERS

Contribute your marine species distribution data of Europe to EurOBIS

Contribute your taxonomic information to WoRMS

Comments

Is the dataset complete? Any additional comments?

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