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Data Validation, Outlier Detection and Data Cleaning

Buttenfield, B., 1993. Representing data quality. Cartographica 30, no. 2 & 3: 1-7.

Chapman, A.D. (1992). Quality Control and Validation of Environmental Resource Data in Data Quality and Standards: Proceedings of a Seminar Organised by the Commonwealth Land Information Forum, Canberra, 5 December 1991. Canberra: Commonwealth land Information Forum.

Chapman, A.D. (1999). Quality Control and Validation of Point-Sourced Environmental Resource Data pp. 409-418 in Lowell, K. and Jaton, A. eds. Spatial accuracy asessment: Land information uncertainty in natural resources. Chelsea, MI: Ann Arbor Press. View the pdf file.

Chapman, A.D. (2002). Risk assessment and uncertainty in mapped and modelled distributions of threatened species in Australia. pp. 31-40 in Hunter, G. and Lowell, K. (eds). Accuracy 2002. 5th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Melbourne: RMIT. View the pdf file.

Chapman, A.D. (2004). Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning. Report for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2004. Copenhagen: GBIF. Consultation Draft [Accessed 2 Mar 2005].

Chapman, A.D. (2004). Environmental Data Quality – A Discussion paper. Appendix H to Sistema de Informação Distribuído para Coleções Biológicas: A Integração do Species Analyst e SinBiota. FAPESP/Biota process no. 2001/02175-5 March 2003 – March 2004. Campinas, Brazil: CRIA 22 pp. View the pdf file.

Chapman, A.D. (2004). Environmental Data Quality – b. Data Cleaning Tools. Appendix I to Sistema de Informação Distribuído para Coleções Biológicas: A Integração do Species Analyst e SinBiota. FAPESP/Biota process no. 2001/02175-5 March 2003 – March 2004. Campinas, Brazil: CRIA 57 pp. View the pdf file.

Chapman, A.D. and Busby, J.R. (1994). Linking plant species information to continental biodiversity inventory, climate and environmental monitoring 177-195 in Miller, R.I. (ed.). Mapping the Diversity of Nature. London: Chapman and Hall. View the pdf file

Ehlschlaeger, C. R., Shortridge, A.M. and Goodchild, M.F. (1997). Visualizing Spatial Data Uncertainty Using Animation, Computers in Geosciences, 23(4) at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/cgvis/.

Marino, A., Paverin, F. de Souza, S. and Chapman, A.D. (in prep). Simple on-line tools for geocoding and validating biological data.

Peterson, A. T., A. G. Navarro-Sigüenza, and R. S. Pereira. 2004c. Detecting errors in biodiversity data based on collectors' itineraries. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 124:143-151. View the pdf file.