Seagrass EOV schema

The Seagrass EOV schema represents the publishing data model for Seagrass EOV datasets into global biodiversity infrastructures. It intends to be the schema where all Seagrass EOV datasets can be transformed into regardless of the data collection protocol and data entry format.

The data schema is described as a Frictionless Data Package, compatible with the Darwin Core Archive format used by infrastructures such as OBIS and GBIF. The Data Package documentation is available in a human readable format at https://iobis.github.io/seagrass-eov-schema/.

Validation

In addition to the checks built into the Frictionless toolkit, some custom validation steps will be implemented. For example, validation using Frictionless will currently not pick up inconsistencies between measurement types and their identifiers.

Example dataset

An example dataset is included as CSV in the data folder. The expected structure of this dataset is described in package.json. To validate the example dataset, install frictionless-py and run frictionless validate datapackage.json.

% frictionless validate datapackage.json

─────────────────────── Dataset ───────────────────────
                        dataset                        
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ name         ┃ type  ┃ path                ┃ status ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ events       │ table │ data/event.csv      │ VALID  │
│ occurrences  │ table │ data/occurrence.csv │ VALID  │
│ measurements │ table │ data/mof.csv        │ VALID  │
└──────────────┴───────┴─────────────────────┴────────┘