Biodiversity Information Standards
From the webpage:
The most widely deployed formats for biodiversity occurrence data are Darwin Core (wiki) and ABCD (wiki).
The TDWG community’s priority is the deployment of Life Science Identifiers (LSID), the preferred Globally Unique Identifier technology and transitioning to RDF encoded metadata as defined by a set of simple vocabularies. All new projects should address the need for tagging their data with LSIDs and consider the use or development of appropriate vocabularies.
TDWG’s activities within the biodiversity informatics domain can be found in the Activities section of this website.
TDWG = Taxonomic Database Working Group.
I originally followed a link on “Darwin Core,” which sounded to much like another “D***** Core” to not check the reference.
Net result is two of the most popular formats used for biodiversity data.