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  <DatasetProvider>
    <DatasetProviderKey>VariousSourcesCollatedByNbdc</DatasetProviderKey>
  </DatasetProvider>
  <DatasetContact>
    <ContactName>Liam Lysaght</ContactName>
    <PostalAddress>National Biodiversity Data Centre, Carriganore WIT West Campus, Waterford</PostalAddress>
    <TelephoneNumber>+353 51 306240</TelephoneNumber>
    <EmailAddress>llysaght@biodiversityireland.ie</EmailAddress>
    <Website>http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/</Website>
  </DatasetContact>
  <DatasetGroup>
    <DatasetGroupKey>NBDCSYS100000043</DatasetGroupKey>
  </DatasetGroup>
  <DatasetInformation>
    <DatasetKey>OrthopteraOfIreland</DatasetKey>
    <DatasetTitle>Grasshoppers, Crickets and Allied Insects (Orthoptera) of Ireland</DatasetTitle>
    <DataSubject>A collated dataset of sightings of Orthoptera and allied insects in Ireland.</DataSubject>
    <MethodsOfDataCapture>Field observations.</MethodsOfDataCapture>
    <PurposeOfDataCapture>To increase the knowledge of the distribution of Orthoptera and allied insects in Ireland.</PurposeOfDataCapture>
    <GeographicCoverage>Island of Ireland.</GeographicCoverage>
    <TemporalCoverage>2000 - 2019</TemporalCoverage>
    <DataQuality>All data has been validated.</DataQuality>
    <DatasetOriginalFormat>Various fomats</DatasetOriginalFormat>
    <DatasetStatus>Dataset is complete for the time period specified.</DatasetStatus>
    <DatasetType>Terrestrial</DatasetType>
  </DatasetInformation>
  <LicenseInformation>
    <DataLicense>CC-BY</DataLicense>
  </LicenseInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>County</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>Name of administrative county within which the record was made</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Vice-county</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>The name of the Watsonian (botanical) vice-county within which the record was made</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Habitat description</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>A description of the habitat in which the organism was recorded</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Determiner name</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>The name of the person(s) who verified the identification - used for verify records of difficult taxa</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Abundance</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>Measure of abundance of the organism recorded</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Record comment</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>A comment associated with any individual record</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Specimen comment</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>A comment associated with the specimen</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Life stage</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>A description of the life stage of the organism recorded</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Survey name</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>Name of survey if the record was made as part of a specific survey (including collections of casual observations and other loose assemblages of data)</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Source</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>Original source of data</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Habitat code (Fossitt, 2000)</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>The code assigned to the habitat described in A Guide to Habitats in Ireland (Fossitt 2000)</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Sampling method</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>Description of the sampling method employed to make the record</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <AttributeInformation>
    <AttributeName>Native status</AttributeName>
    <AttributeDescription>A description of the status of the species in Ireland</AttributeDescription>
  </AttributeInformation>
  <ValidationInformation>
    <UnderValidation>false</UnderValidation>
  </ValidationInformation>
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