Webinar: Improving Data Quality at the Source: A Data Quality Toolkit for Biocollections

This webinar was presented on 11 June 2026 as the first part of the GBIF North America 2026 Nodes Meeting and Training.

Presenters:

• Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub Data Manager
• Cat Chapman, iDigBio & GBIF US Data Wrangler

Topics covered:

• Common data quality issues ad “dealbreakers” for ingestion into aggregators (e.g. GBIF)
• Available tools to improve data quality

Webinar Video

Slide Deck

• Data Quality Slides (.pdf)

CMS-Agonistic Links and Tools

• GBIF IPT Data Quality Checklist
• GBIF DwC-A Data Validator
• Definitions of issues and flags for the Data Validator

CMS-Specific Tools

• Arctos: https://handbook.arctosdb.org/documentation/data_quality.html
• Specify: https://discourse.specifysoftware.org/t/data-quality-toolkit/1781
• Symbiota: https://docs.symbiota.org/Editor_Guide/data_quality_toolkit/
• TaxonWorks: https://docs.taxonworks.org/guide/data-quality.html