Checklist of the ants in Belgium

Rationale

This repository contains the functionality to standardize the Checklist of the ants in Belgium to a Darwin Core checklist that can be harvested by GBIF. It was developed for the TrIAS project.

Workflow

source data → Darwin Core mapping script → generated Darwin Core files

Published dataset

• Dataset on the IPT
• Dataset on GBIF

Repo structure

The repository structure is based on Cookiecutter Data Science and the Checklist recipe. Files and directories indicated with GENERATED should not be edited manually.

├── README.md         : Description of this repository
├── LICENSE           : Repository license
├── belgian-formicidae-checklist.Rproj : RStudio project file
├── .gitignore        : Files and directories to be ignored by git
│
├── data
│   ├── raw           : Source data, input for mapping script
│   └── processed     : Darwin Core output of mapping script GENERATED
│
└── src
    └── dwc_mapping.Rmd : Darwin Core mapping script, core functionality of this repository

Installation

1. Clone this repository to your computer
2. Open the RStudio project file
3. Open the dwc_mapping.Rmd R Markdown file in RStudio
4. Install any required packages
5. Click Run > Run All to generate the processed data
6. Alternatively, click Build > Build website to generate the processed data and build the website in docs/

Contributors

List of contributors

License

MIT License