Exploring DwCA_v2 with marine community measurements dataset

This is an attempt to map BROKE-West Fish dataset as a marine survey and community measurements use case of the new data model to DwCAv2 and explore what information can be retrieve from DwCAv2.

Repo structure

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├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── broke-west-fish-dwcav2.Rproj  : Rproj file for project environment
├── data
│   ├── original_data     : some of the original data that is used by the scripts
│   └── output            : mapped DwCAv2 tables generated by the scripts
├── docs                  : rendered Quarto files for GitHub Pages
├── renv                  : renv files for dependencies
├── renv.lock             : describes the state of project's library
└── src                   : scripts to transform and explore the data

Getting started

This project uses renv to manage the dependencies in a virtual environment. Please try the following command to load the dependencies:

renv::restore()

R version 4.4.2 was used the scripts in this repository.

Acknowledgement

This work is part of the ADVANCE project funded by BELSPO (BELSPO project RT/23/ADVANCE). More acknowledgement in the GitHub Pages

References

Original dataset of this exercise

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre (2022). RMT Trawl catch from the 2005/06 V3 BROKE-West voyage - Fish. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/nooqmj accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-01-29.

Paper that describes the sciences, sampling and results

• Van de Putte, Anton P., George D. Jackson, Evgeny Pakhomov, Hauke Flores, and Filip AM Volckaert. "Distribution of squid and fish in the pelagic zone of the Cosmonaut Sea and Prydz Bay region during the BROKE-West campaign." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 57, no. 9-10 (2010): 956-967.