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

2,686,241
occurrence records
5,724
taxa
4,265
species
31
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,569,296
95.6%
decimalLatitude 231 185,667
6.9%
decimalLongitude 231 185,667
6.9%
eventDate 126,402 3,653
4.8%
maximumDepthInMeters 442,912 2
16.5%
minimumDepthInMeters 443,009 2
16.5%
occurrenceStatus 237,373 7
8.8%
scientificName 15
0.0%
scientificNameID 144,000 2,484
5.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 442,896
16.5%
NO_COORD 185,898
6.9%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 185,667
6.9%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 185,667
6.9%
ON_LAND 18,121
0.7%
NO_MATCH 8,640
0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 5,287
0.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,314
0.2%
NOT_MARINE 167
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 148
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 148
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 85
0.0%