File download fields documentation
This page describes the fields used in the occurrence record files downloaded from FinBIF. See also instructions how to get the data correctly into Excel.
List of Terms used in the download
The following page describes fields of the download.
- In Finnish: https://rs.laji.fi/terms?locale=fi
- In Swedish: https://rs.laji.fi/terms?locale=sv
- In English: https://rs.laji.fi/terms?locale=en
You may download the file in TSV (Tab Separated text file; the “Vakio/Standard” option) or Geopackage formats (GIS option).
The Vakio/Standard file is a ZIP compressed file, and once uncompressed contains the following files and folders:
- occurrences.txt – the main occurrence data file
- It has three headers: technical, Finnish and English labels
- meta.xml; eml.xml – metadata about the download in machine readable format (DarwinCore Archive DwC-A)
- doc
- Instructions in Finnish, English and Swedish, including List of Terms
- Terms of Use / Käyttöehdot in Finnish, English and Swedish
- facts – Additional terms from the original data sources (not harmonized)
- occurrence_facts.txt – Additional terms about the occurrence (also known as Unit facts in API)
- event_facts.txt – Additional terms about the Gathering Event (place, habitat) (also known as Gathering facts in API)
- parent_event_facts.txt – Additional terms about the Record (metadata, top level interpretations such as metadata of data origin, interpreted nesting outcome) (also known as Document facts in API)
- media – Images, Audio; contains links and metadata, not the actual Media files
- occurrence_media.txt – Media about the occurrence
- event_media.txt – Media about the Gathering event (place, habitat)
- label_images.txt – Collection specimen labels