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Occurrence
Definition | An existence of a dwc:Organism at a particular place at a particular time. (Source https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#occurrence) |
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Comments | This term describes the top level of aggregated information. One ore more records can form an occurrence. Occurrences can be related to each other, e.g. collected tissue from the same organism at a different time or as parasite/host relationship. Related records that form together one occurrence are marked as such in GGBN. |
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Record
Definition | A chain of material entities that are directly related to each other. |
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Comments | This terms describes the aggregated derived from information chain for directly related material entities. Records can be related to each other as one occurrence record. Records are the basis for search, display and counts/statistics within the GGBN Data Portal. The number of material entities for the same record can increase over time. |
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Material entity
Definition | An entity that can be identified, exists for some period of time, and consists in whole or in part of physical matter while it exists. (Source https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#materialentity) |
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Comments | This term describes any kind of a physical DNA, tissue or environmental sample, preserved specimen, fossil, or exemplar from living collections. Material entities can be related to each other as one record. Each material entity has a GGBN stable identifier assigned to it and a dedicated landing page. |
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Taxon
Definition | A group of organisms (sensu http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0100026) considered by taxonomists to form a homogeneous unit. (Source: https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#taxon) |
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Comments | In GGBN it is used to count the lowest available identifications. Counts for each taxonomic level can be retrieved through the GGBN API: https://www.ggbn.org/ggbn_portal/api/ |
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Data provider
Definition | A GGBN member institution with core status, providing its biobank collection data to the GGBN data portal. |
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Comments | Some members share multiple datasets through GGBN which are merged together to one resource (data provider). |
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Document
Definition | An entry in the GGBN Document Library (https://library.ggbn.org). |
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