Section: E-Lab Data Format Description | LifeWatch Belgium e-Lab: User Guide | LifeWatch ERIC Training Platform

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The LifeWatch.be portal uses a specific standard data format which is based on the OBIS Schema and the Darwin Core Version 2 standard.

This LifeWatch data format is a tab delimited (.txt) ASCII file and can contain the following fields: Survey, LocationID, Longitude, Latitude, WKTFootprint, EventID, SamplingProtocol, EventDate, MinimumDepth, MaximumDepth, FieldNumber, SampleSize, ScientificName, ScientificNameID, Sex, LifeStage, ObservedIndividualCount and AssociatedSequences.

Not all fields are required for every web service. The table below gives an overview of the required fields for the individual web services.
- Select activity Web Services Data Format Description
  
  Web Services Data Format Description File
- Select activity Check here some example ASCII files.
  
  Check here some example ASCII files.
- Select activity Example file for Taxon match WoRMS
  
  Example file for Taxon match WoRMS
- Select activity Example file for geographic services
  
  Example file for geographic services
- Select activity Example file for tidal reduction
  
  Example file for tidal reduction