OBIS-GBIF Norway

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GBIF Norway is the Norwegian participant node in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF. Our main task is to make primary data on biological diversity from the Norwegian collections and observation databases freely available and to coordinate and support GBIF-related activities and data use in Norway.

Dag Endresen
dag.endresen@nhm.uio.no

Andreas Altenburger
andreas.altenburger@uit.no

Vanessa Pitusi
vanessa.pitusi@uit.no

Katrine Kongshavn
Katrine.Kongshavn@uib.no

2,566,452
occurrence records
3,614
taxa
2,262
species
27
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,564,634
99.9%
decimalLatitude 2 185,665
7.2%
decimalLongitude 2 185,665
7.2%
eventDate 8,063 3,508
0.5%
maximumDepthInMeters 326,699
12.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 324,590
12.6%
occurrenceStatus 118,873
4.6%
scientificName 2
0.0%
scientificNameID 25,500 2,484
1.1%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 324,475
12.6%
NO_COORD 185,667
7.2%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 185,665
7.2%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 185,665
7.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 4,987
0.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,280
0.2%
NO_MATCH 1,715
0.1%
ON_LAND 1,443
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 115
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 85
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 13
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1
0.0%