Darwin Core Archive Reader part1
After writing software that produces Darwin Core Archives (DwC-A), I thought it is time to introduce a little client library that can read DwC-A and makes it very simple to consume it. To create DwC-A there are a couple of resources available: The Darwin Core Text Guidelines , pretty much the specification The ECAT Checklist Format gives some best practices and focus on how to encode taxonomic data as DwC-A The IPT produces DwC-A and has a rich web interface but is limited to ~1 million records The IPT-lite produces large DwC-A datasets very fast, but lacks any visualisation of the data itself. Its a great way of quickly creating DwC-A and hosting it online The DwC Archive reader library is under active development and currently being used for indexing checklists. The project is hosted as part of the GBIF Indexing and Harvesting Toolkit , where a jar with all dependencies is hosted for download too. You can use this jar in the terminal to inspect archives like this: $ java -jar D...