Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) database

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published on 10 October 2018
Publication date:
10 October 2018
Published by:
No organization
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Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 176,673 records in English (8 MB) - Update frequency: unknown
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Description

The original dataset, provided by OBIS-USA, contains all distribution records. The dataset in OBIS Seamap is a subset of the original dataset, only containing marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Linda Kuhnz, Lonny Lundsten, Kyra Schlining, Susan von Thun, (2002) Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) database, Year 2000, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California USA, Database, www.mbari.org/vars

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

GBIF Registration

This resource has not been registered with GBIF

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Online dataset http://iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/1507 UTF-8 HTML
Online dataset http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/103151507 UTF-8 HTML
Metadata http://www.vliz.be/imis/iobis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=3397 UTF-8 HTML

Contacts

OBIS Secretariat
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
BE
Judith Connor
  • Point Of Contact
Monterey Bay Aquarium; Research Institute (MBARI)
US

Geographic Coverage

I, North Pacific - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/1903

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2000-02-02 / 2000-12-21

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.iobis.org/obis/resource?id=imis_dasid_3397