GBIF data processing

Getting biodiversity data from publisher to user in near-real time

Crabtree Nature Preserve
Crabtree Nature Preserve by Justin Kern licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

GBIF data processing – from “Register” to downloading

In this description, imagine a researcher, Professor Smith, who has an occurrence dataset of insects with about 50,000 records. He has compiled the data into an Excel spreadsheet and uploaded it to his institution's instance of the