Australian Antarctic Data Centre IPT - OBIS Australia
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OBIS Australia can host a "snapshot" of your data on the OBIS Australia IPT server. This means that the data will be exposed to the International OBIS portal on your behalf, and will be identified as your data being served by OBIS Australia. The dataset hosted on the OBIS Australia server can be updated at intervals, for example if the dataset is dynamic (i.e., the content changes from time to time). To arrange this, please contact the node manager.
There are some additions to the data and associated metadata that assists OBIS to merge records into their database.
In the DarwinCore schema, there is a field called ScientificNameId. OBIS requires the URN of that taxa from the World Register of Marine Species: WoRMS to be included where possible. For example, the Wandering Albatross (Diomedia exulans) has an id of 212583 (see http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212583 ). The URN for this species is urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212583.
OBIS Australia has developed tools to match species names to WoRMS using it's WoRMS webservices. Feedback is provided on regular basis by OBIS on potential issues with species matching and they will report any anomalies, unknown taxa, ambigous matches etc.
The DarwinCore schema field occurrenceStatus must have values of either 'present' or 'absent'. OBIS will harvest records marked absent but as yet they are not visible at iOBIS. As part of the redevelopment of the OBIS data portal, 'absent' occurrences are expected to be utilised.
In the Ecology Markup Language (EML) metadata record, within the Additional Metadata section, the field 'Additional information' should contain the phrase 'marine, harvested by iOBIS'. This informs OBIS that this dataset is relevant as it contains marine data. It allows data providers to use the IPT for non-marine data which can be harvested by other data aggregators, notably GBIF.
If your data is from the Australian Antarctic Program, then the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) will host your data on their IPT as part of the biodiversity.aq network.