Symbiota Paleo Data Portal Orientation

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This page contains important information for Symbiota Paleo Data Portal data providers.

Introduction

Thank you for your interest in using the Paleo Data Portal (PDP)A Symbiota portal that supports the management and sharing of data associated with paleontological specimens that are made available for research via permanent repositories. The scope of the PDP is limited to extinct organisms and their traces (i.e., fossils). Geological samples, archaeological and anthropological materials, as well as neontological specimen data fall outside this scope and should not be cataloged in this portal., a Symbiota-based data portal for managing and publishing fossil specimen data. This documentation is intended to help data providers 1) determine whether this resource will be an appropriate tool for managing and sharing data associated with their collection and 2) understand key information for leveraging the portal’s built-in tools for data mobilization.

Portal Scope

The Paleo Data Portal’s scope is described on the home page, https://paleo.symbiota.org. The portal is intended for managing and sharing specimen data from fossil collections that can be used for research and are held in public trust, for example, by a university collection or nonprofit museum. The portal’s scope is limited to extinct organisms and their traces (i.e., fossils) and collections that intend to use the portal for active data management. The Paleo Data Portal is not intended for use by teaching collections, collections that are not publicly accessible, geological samples that do not contain fossils, archaeological or anthropological materials, or neontological (extant) specimen data.

This a resource with a tooltip: Bauer et al. (2022)The purpose of this document is to provide a framework for how to mobilize information via Wikidata about people working in and/or associated with scientific collections. Building on previous Wikidata documentation produced by Siobhan Leachman (2020, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4724139) participants of the Using Wikidata to Capture and Share Information about People in Paleontology workshop (held March 29-31, 2022) created this framework to formalize and share practical knowledge gained from the workshop.. It should display as a link to an external resource with a tooltip that appears on hover. Tooltips displayed using this widget are based on the annotation field. If that field contains any formatting code, it may break the tooltip. The first appearance of the word tooltip should be underlined and include a tooltip but no link.

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This is a paragraph including Darwin CoreBiodiversity data standard maintained by TDWG, with terms for sharing species occurrence and specimen data. terms, like geodeticDatumThe ellipsoid, geodetic datum, or spatial reference system (SRS) upon which the geographic coordinates given in dwc:decimalLatitude and dwc:decimalLongitude are based. and maximumDistanceAboveSurfaceInMetersThe greater distance in a range of distance from a reference surface in the vertical direction, in meters. Use positive values for locations above the surface, negative values for locations below. If depth measures are given, the reference surface is the location given by the depth, otherwise the reference surface is the location given by the elevation.. Those terms should display as links to the Darwin CoreBiodiversity data standard maintained by TDWG, with terms for sharing species occurrence and specimen data. Quick Reference Guide and should show a definition on hover. Only the first appearance of a term on each page should include the tooltip, so geodeticDatum in this sentence should appear as plain text. Note that terms do not use a widget or any other syntax. The script that builds the page identifies them automatically.

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Symbiota Paleo Data Portal Orientation

Introduction

Portal Scope

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Notices

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