Table 1 The MIReAD data fields and their mapping to the GBIF metadata profile.

From: MIReAD, a minimum information standard for reporting arthropod abundance data

MIReAD Field

Corresponding GBIF metadata fields

Contact details

contact

General description of the experiment/collection set

designDescription; sampling

Citations

citation

Species Identification Method

designDescription

Not present vs zero information

samplingDescription

GPS obfuscation information

geographicDescription geodeticDatum

Data usage information

intellectualRights

  1. See GBIF63 for more information.