---
id: "dwc_institution_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science", "environment"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 60
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/dwc_institution_code"
---

# Darwin Core institution code (`dwc_institution_code`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science), Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `APQA`
- `MVZ` — Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
- `NHMUK` — Natural History Museum, London

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `dwcinstitutioncodebyfield` (field, `common/science.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- doc: <https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:institutionCode>
- doc: <https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/>

## Quality

Score 60/100. Missing: regexp, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/dwc_institution_code.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/dwc_institution_code.yaml>