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  • SPI-Birds Metadata Form

    SPI-Birds Metadata Form

    SPI-Birds Network and Database is a grassroots initiative connecting researchers conducting Studies of Populations of Individual Birds, with the aim to improve data accessibility and transparency and to facilitate collaboration.
  • As part of this community initiative, we collect metadata of the various field studies on birds, and build robust pipelines that convert the data collected stored in local site-specific formats (i.e., primary data) to a standard format. We hope this standard format will facilitate greater collaboration by allowing data from multiple field studies to be easily collated and compared.
     
    Metadata are data about data, or, in other words, the documentation and necessary information needed for someone to understand your data. This includes pieces of information such as data custody, data coverage, methods and protocols used to collect the data.
     
    Through this form, you can join the growing community of SPI-Birds and send your study site's metadata. Once submitted, your metadata will be displayed on the SPI-Birds website for other users to see and search through, increasing the visibility of your study site, providing the opportunity for new research ideas and collaborations. 
     
    Besides metadata, you are also welcome to send your primary data to SPI-Birds. These data are safely stored at the NIOO-KNAW server and backed up several times a week. We only use these data to create pipelines that convert the data into the standard format. You keep custody and full control over the use of your data (more info on data licenses below).
     
    Best wishes,
    The SPI-Birds Team
     
     
    Notes
    You can reach us at spibirds@nioo.knaw.nl with any questions that you may have.
    An overview of all the fields of this form can be found here: form overview.

  • Fields marked * are required.
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  • Responsible Party

    The person or organization who is responsible for taking care of the data. Also: Data Custodian.

  • Metadata Provider

    The person who provided the metadata

  • Contact Person

    The person to contact with questions about the use and/or interpretation of the data set

  • Project Members

    People other than provided under Responsible Party, Metadata Provider, and/or Contact Person who have contributed to running the field study. Role: role of the person in the project (e.g., principal investigator, field worker, data manager).

  • Funding

  • Data License

  • More information on data licenses can be found here: SPI-Birds Data Licenses.

  • Data Maintenance

  • Study Site

    Name and description of the study site

  • Habitat

    Habitats are classified according to EUNIS habitat classification scheme (version 2012).
  • Habitat code *
     
    The habitat codes are hierarchical; please provide the most detailed code where possible. The first three levels can be selected through the dropdown list below. If you want to add more detail (up to level 8), please use the EUNIS code browser to select a code and fill it in under More detailed habitat code.

  • Geographic Coverage

    Geographic coordinates and elevation of the study site

  • Temporal Coverage

    Temporal coverage of the study site

  • Taxonomic Coverage

    Species monitored at the study site

  • Data collected

    Types of data collected at the study site. In all dropdown lists you may select multiple options. Note: this does not include derived variables, such as number of recruits.

  • Submit form

  • Please indicate below if you give consent for the metadata, as you entered them, to be publicly visible on the SPI-Birds website and archived as part of the SPI-Birds database. More information on our metadata policy and your data protection rights can be found here: SPI-Birds Metadata Information & Policy.
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