Data Sharing Recommendations

The following is a work in progress. Please comment below if you have additional input or ideas!

Share your data

Occurrence data

Organizations implicated depend heavily on taxon.

All species groups

• Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC) (Atlantic Canada)
• Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute (MTRI) (Nova Scotia)
• Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables - Wildlife Division (biodiversity@novascotia.ca)
• New Brunswick DNR (no protocols here)
• PEI Forests, Fish and Wildlife Division
• iNaturalist (inaturalist.ca) (Global)

Herps

Herp Atlas: http://www.herps.speciesatrisk.ca/ (Nova Scotia)

Birds

Birds Canada: https://www.birdscanada.org/ (National)

Bats

Nova Scotia Bat Conservation: http://www.batconservation.ca/ (Nova Scotia)

Plants

Nova Scotia Hemlock Initiative: https://www.nshemlock.ca/ (Nova Scotia)

Other groups

Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service

GIS data

Publish data with ArcGIS Online: https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-online/overview

Make portals aware of your dataset.

• Portals available in our region:
• Nova Scotia Open Data Portal: https://data.novascotia.ca/
• New Brunswick GeoNB http://www.snb.ca/geonb1/e/DC/catalogue-E.asp
• Canadian GIS: https://canadiangis.com/nova-scotia-geospatial-data.php

Share your models

Deposit your model in a data-sharing portal, catalogue or repository. Suggestions:

• Dryad
• Zenodo
• FigShare
• Borealis
• Code: GitHub, BitBucket

Standard formats

Resources to consult:

• A Species Habitat Model Standard for the NatureServe Network version 1.0
• Sharing Data Between the NatureServe Network and the NPS: Requirements and Data Management Solutions
• Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments (Araújo et al. 2019)
• Development and delivery of species distribution models to inform decision-making (Sofaer et al. 2019)
• A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (Zurell et al. 2020)

Metadata

Resources to consult:

• Metadata Standards Catalog