Taxonomic backbone
From the start the project teamed up with GBIF Norway for general taxonomic and systematics guidance, and so the GBIF backbone is used as taxonomic backbone for all the wild organisms in the biosphere. The main taxon table now consists of > 7 mill. entries, of which > 3 mill. are synonyms. The GBIF backbone is a fantastic resource, freely available on gbif.org, here showing search result for Solanum tuberosum L. The backbone is built using the Darwin Core Standard, and the main table is the taxon table, and its terms can be seen in the quick reference guide https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#taxon
Cultonomic backbone
The Culton checklist will contain entries of both plants, fungi, animals, microorganisms etc., similar to GBIF and other taxonomic checklists, but it will be covering only a fraction of the number of species, since our focus is the domesticated and foraged/hunted/fished organisms. With other words: all the species we depend upon for food, medicine, clothes, material etc.
The systematic choises made for the Culton checklist are described in the systematic section of this site on Culton’s approach
How we structure our database to reflect these systematic choises is described in the data model (for logged in participants)
An overview of our sources will be developed at data sources (for logged in participants)
Datasets
For each of the datasets below, there is a separate page with information on definition, sources, method and data structure. Everyone with some basic knowledge about biology, systematics and/or data science is most welcome to provide input, and participants are encouraged to use the forums to ask questions and initiate discussions. Want to join the team?
The core
Descriptor data
Our first beta version of the checklist service will run from beta.culton.org. Here at culton.org development datasets, mostly in spreadsheet format, are intended for internal discussion among logged in participants of the project. If such data has been posted, there is a link to it below here:
Last Updated on 2023-09-02 by Karl Aakerro