The SponGIS site and database has been designed to hold data pertaining or related to deep-sea sponges from around the world. The database is based on established Biodiversity Data Standards and has been purposely built to mirror the OBIS Schema, with some SponGIS specific extensions. This allows simple contribution of our data to a much larger and well used dataset, fulfilling our data archiving obligations for the SponGES project.
Written in Microsoft Excel, there are two templates: (1) The SponGIS occurrence data submission template has been designed to make it simple to translate existing or build new datasets that can be entered into SponGIS. The template contains several sheets, and has full explanation of each field in the database. You do not have to do anything else except fill in the template, SponGIS staff will convert the dataset (when accepted) into the required formats for archiving. (2) The SponGIS meta-record datasheet is a simple way to provide meta-data records to SponGIS.
The SponGIS database has been designed to hold data pertaining or related to deep-sea sponges from around the world. The database is based on established Biodiversity Data Standards and has been purposely built to mirror the OBIS Schema, with some SponGIS specific extensions. This allows simple contribution of our data to a much larger and well used dataset, fulfilling our data arching obligations for the SponGES project.
Here we've got tutorial material to support contributors in converting their data into the SponGIS format, we cover a range of different data types, and go through some of the common mistakes that can be made.
The development of this resource was supported by the SponGES project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 679849.