Creating a Darwin Core Archive

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This page describes how you can package your data as a Darwin Core Archive (standard format for data publishing and sharing) in a Symbiota portal.

A Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) is a data standard that is commonly used to package species occurrence data into a single, self-contained dataset. A DwC-A includes metadata, a file of occurrence data, and, often, files for determinations (identifications), multimedia, and any other data extensions.

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You can only publish a Darwin Core Archive of occurrences that have unique occurrence IDs and GUIDs. In your collection metadata page, make sure that you have selected a source for your GUID and that this source contains unique values for each occurrence.

1. Navigate to your Administration Control Panel (click My Profile, then the name of the collection in the Collection Management box).
2. Click Darwin Core Archive Publishing.
3. Click the Create/Refresh Darwin Core Archive button.