List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern

Rationale

This repository contains the functionality to standardize the data of the List of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern to a Darwin Core Archive that can be harvested by GBIF.

Workflow

source data → Darwin Core mapping script → generated Darwin Core files

The source data are manually created from:

• 2022 consolidated version pdf: scientific names with authors, synonym names (in parenthesis) with authors
• spreadsheets containing common names: first version (January 2018) and later additions (April 2020 and January 2022)
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1422 updating the list of invasive alien species of Union concern

Published dataset

• Dataset on the IPT
• Dataset on GBIF

Repo structure

The repository structure is based on Cookiecutter Data Science and the Checklist recipe. Files and directories indicated with GENERATED should not be edited manually.

├── README.md              : Description of this repository
├── LICENSE                : Repository license
├── union-list.Rproj       : RStudio project file
├── .gitignore             : Files and directories to be ignored by git
│
├── data
│   ├── raw                : Source data, input for mapping script
│   └── processed          : Darwin Core output of mapping script GENERATED
│
└── src
    └── dwc_mapping.Rmd    : Darwin Core mapping script, core functionality of this repository

Installation

1. Clone this repository to your computer
2. Open the RStudio project file
3. Open the dwc_mapping.Rmd R Markdown file in RStudio
4. Install any required packages
5. Click Run > Run All to generate the processed data

License

MIT License for the code and documentation in this repository. The included data is released under another license.