Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a form of environmental data gained from sampling the environment to look for the tiny traces of DNA that animals, plants, fungi, and microbes leave behind. This richness of eDNA data (covering so many species) makes open access crucial to realising its full value, allowing the data to contribute to an array of different uses from assessing ecosystem restoration to detecting biosecurity incursions.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) provides storage and access for a variety of biodiversity data, including eDNA. MfE commissioned Epi to develop the eDNABridge R package to enable entities holding large amounts of eDNA data to perform bulk uploads to GBIF. This provides an opportunity to leverage GBIF’s existing publishing infrastructure to immediately improve accessibility and interoperability of New Zealand’s eDNA data and support future stakeholder collaboration.
This report describes technical details of the eDNABridge and pilot testing of bulk uploads of data produced by Wilderlab from samples supplied by the Department of Conservation, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and Earth Science New Zealand.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a form of environmental data gained from sampling the environment to look for the tiny traces of DNA that animals, plants, fungi, and microbes leave behind. This richness of eDNA data (covering so many species) makes open access crucial to realising its full value, allowing the data to contribute to an array of different uses from assessing ecosystem restoration to detecting biosecurity incursions.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) provides storage and access for a variety of biodiversity data, including eDNA. MfE commissioned Epi to develop the eDNABridge R package to enable entities holding large amounts of eDNA data to perform bulk uploads to GBIF. This provides an opportunity to leverage GBIF’s existing publishing infrastructure to immediately improve accessibility and interoperability of New Zealand’s eDNA data and support future stakeholder collaboration.
This report describes technical details of the eDNABridge and pilot testing of bulk uploads of data produced by Wilderlab from samples supplied by the Department of Conservation, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and Earth Science New Zealand.