galaxias

Describe, Package, and Share Biodiversity Data

The Darwin Core data standard is widely used to share biodiversity information, most notably by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and its partner nodes; but converting data to this standard can be tricky. ‘galaxias’ is functionally similar to ‘devtools’, but with a focus on building Darwin Core Archives rather than R packages, enabling data to be shared and re-used with relative ease. For details see Wieczorek and colleagues (2012) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715.