Biodiversity Data Quality Profiling: A practical guideline

• Allan Koch Veiga USP
• Antonio Mauro Saraiva USP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wcama.2017.3441

Abstract

The increasing availability of biodiversity data worldwide, provided by an in creasing number of institutions, and the growing use of those data for a variety of purposes have raised concerns related to the "fitness for use" of such data and the impact on the outcomes of these uses. To tackle this issues a conceptual framework was defined in the context of the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) to serve as consistent approach to assess and manage data quality (DQ) of biodiversity data. Based on this framework we propose a method to define DQ Profiles that describes the meaning of "fitness for use" in a given context and enable the DQ assessment and improvement.

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