Norwegian Species Observation Service

Occurrence
Latest version published by The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC) on Apr 23, 2024 The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC)

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Description

Citizen science species observations from the Species Observation Service in Norway (Artsobservasjoner).

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 18,809,076 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
18809076
Multimedia 
802223

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre ., Hoem S (2024). Norwegian Species Observation Service. Version 1.260. The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.artsdatabanken.no/resource?r=speciesobservationsservice2&v=1.260

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b124e1e0-4755-430f-9eab-894f25a9b59c.  The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; cs; citizen science; Occurrence

Contacts

. The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre
  • Originator
IT Team Leader
Artsdatabanken
Havnegata 9
7010 Trondheim
Trondelag
NO
+4793466992
Stein Hoem
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
IT Team Leader
Artsdatabanken
Havnegata 9
7010 Trondheim
Trondelag
NO
+4793466992

Geographic Coverage

Norwegian territory including Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Bounding Coordinates South West [52.483, -16.875], North East [81.308, 40.781]

Sampling Methods

Observation of species

Study Extent Ongoing citizen science project
Quality Control Validation of reports by biological experts from interest organisations

Method step description:

  1. Observation of species

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers b124e1e0-4755-430f-9eab-894f25a9b59c
https://ipt.artsdatabanken.no/resource?r=speciesobservationsservice2