Tools to Create, Use, and Convert ecocomDP Data

Work with the Ecological Community Data Design Pattern. 'ecocomDP' is a flexible data model for harmonizing ecological community surveys, in a research question agnostic format, from source data published across repositories, and with methods that keep the derived data up-to-date as the underlying sources change. Described in O'Brien et al. (2021), .

ecocomDP

Overview

Tools to create, use, and convert ‘ecocomDP’ datasets. ‘ecocomDP’ is a dataset design pattern for harmonizing ecological community surveys in a research question agnostic format, from source datasets published across multiple repositories, and with methods that keep the derived datasets up-to-date as the underlying sources change. Described in O’Brien et al. (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101374.

Installation

Get the latest CRAN release:

install.packages("ecocomDP")

Get the latest development version:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("EDIorg/ecocomDP", ref = "development")

Usage

• Create ecocomDP Data
• Use ecocomDP Data
• Convert ecocomDP Data to Another Model Format

Model documentation

• Model Overview
• Shared Practices for Creating ecocomDP Data

Getting help

Use GitHub Issues for bug reporting, feature requests, and general questions/discussions. When filing bug reports, please include a minimal reproducible example.

Contributing

Community contributions are welcome! Please reference our contributing guidelines for details.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.