Darwin Core institution code
ID dwc_institution_code
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Acronym of the institution that holds a specimen or publishes a record (Darwin Core institutionCode), as in APQA or MVZ; GBIF's GRSciColl registry lists the codes of natural history collections.
- Parent datatype
- Category
category - Categories
- Scientific, Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste)
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 60/100 · missing: regexp, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
- Metacrafter rules
- 1 rule (1 by field name, 0 by value)
dwcinstitutioncodebyfieldfield, common/science.yaml
- Supported by tools
- metacrafter
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| APQA | |
| MVZ | Museum of Vertebrate Zoology |
| NHMUK | Natural History Museum, London |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dwc_institution_code - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/science/dwc_institution_code.yamlon GitHub