This page describes how you can download Darwin Core Archive files (DwC-A; standard format for data publishing and sharing) from a Symbiota portal.
If you are an administrator of a collection, you can download a Darwin Core Archive of your collection in one of two ways:
- Navigate to your Administration Contol Panel (My Profile > Occurrence Management > name of your collection) and click Darwin Core Archive Publishing. If you have already created a DwC-A, click the link next to “DwC-Archive File:”. If you have not yet created a DwC-A, create one.
- Navigate to your Administration Contol Panel (My Profile > Occurrence Management > name of your collection) and click Download Data Backup file. The backup file will be in the format of a Darwin Core Archive, but all specimens will be included in the file, even if they don’t have unique GUIDs.
If you are not an administrator of a collection, or you would like to download a DwC-A of another collection:
- Navigate to the Sitemap of the portal (generally an option on the menu).
- Under “Collections”, click Darwin Core Archives (DwC-A).
- Find the collection for which you would like to download a DwC-A and click the link in the DwC-A column. The size of the file will be displayed in parentheses.