List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern

List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern

Rationale

This repository contains the functionality to standardize the data of the List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern to a Darwin Core Archive that can be harvested by GBIF.

Workflow

source data → Darwin Core mapping script → generated Darwin Core files

The source data are manually created from:

• 2022 consolidated version pdf: scientific names with authors, synonym names (in parenthesis) with authors
• spreadsheets containing common names: first version (January 2018) and later additions (April 2020 and January 2022)

Published dataset

• Dataset on the IPT
• Dataset on GBIF

Repo structure

The repository structure is based on Cookiecutter Data Science and the Checklist recipe. Files and directories indicated with GENERATED should not be edited manually.

├── README.md              : Description of this repository
├── LICENSE                : Repository license
├── union-list.Rproj       : RStudio project file
├── .gitignore             : Files and directories to be ignored by git
│
├── data
│   ├── raw                : Source data, input for mapping script
│   └── processed          : Darwin Core output of mapping script GENERATED
│
└── src
    └── dwc_mapping.Rmd    : Darwin Core mapping script, core functionality of this repository

Installation

1. Clone this repository to your computer
2. Open the RStudio project file
3. Open the dwc_mapping.Rmd R Markdown file in RStudio
4. Install any required packages
5. Click Run > Run All to generate the processed data

License

MIT License for the code and documentation in this repository. The included data is released under another license.