Natural Collections Description
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Natural Collections Description (NCD) Terms
Natural Collections Description (NCD) is a data standard for describing collections of natural history materials at the collection level; one NCD record describes one entire collection.
Links
- Home page: http://www.tdwg.org/activities/ncd/
- TDWG Ontology: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/
- NCD Collection Terms: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Collection
- NCD Institution Terms: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/Institution
- http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/CollectionType.rdf
- http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/InstitutionType.rdf
- http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/ContactDetails.rdf
- http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TermWithSource.rdf
Contributors
Neil Thomson (Natural History Museum, London), Roger Hyam (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh), Constance Rinaldo (Harvard University), Carol Butler (Smithsonian Institution), Doug Holland (Missouri Botanical Gardens), Barbara Mathé (American Museum of Natural History), Günter Waibel (RLG Programs, OCLC), Wouter Addink (ETI Bioinformatics), Ruud Altenburg (ETI), Markus Döring (Berlin Botanic Garden).
References
- Thomson N, Hyam R, Rinaldo C, Butler C, Holland D, Mathé B, Waibel G, Addink W, Altenburg R, Döring M (2009). Natural Collections Description (NCD). A data standard for exchanging data describing natural history collections. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Available at http://www.tdwg.org/standards/312/, verified 7 June 2012.
- TDWG NCS Task Group (2009). Natural Collections Description (NCD) v0.9 2008. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Available at http://www.tdwg.org/standards/312/, verified 7 June 2012.
- TDWG (2009). TDWG LSID Ontology. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Available at http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/, verified 7 June 2012.
