Add simple methodology to metadata

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The quality control procedure consists of checking the number of available historical and recent data, the number of sites that was surveyed in both historical and recent times and the spatial coverage of the different ecological districts of Flanders (Maes et al. 2015). For older Red Lists, this quality control was done post factum, while for new Red Lists this was done at the start of the Red List assessment. Red Lists fulfilling the quality control criteria are labelled as "validated red lists". The other red lists were labelled as "unvalidated red lists: https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=rl-flanders-unvalidated-checklist

This database publishes the Red List statuses of all species that were assessed in Flanders (northern Belgium) since 1994. First, a literature search was done in both local and scientific publications to gather all Red List assessments ever performed in Flanders. All species present in the Red Lists were compiled in a database with the original taxonomic name and Red List status as published in the original Red List. The data were carefully checked for double entries and for typing errors in the published species names. Since Red List categories were not always in accordance with the presently used IUCN categories, we “translated” the originally published Red List category into IUCN Red List categories. Second, all species names were checked against the GBIF taxonomic backbone (https://www.gbif.org/species) to obtain currently traceable species names (including synonyms). Red Lists fulfilling the quality control criteria are labelled as “validated Red Lists”, published here: https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=rl-flanders-validated-checklist. Applying this procedure, we were able to validate nineteen out of 38 published Red Lists, while nineteen others could not be validated and are published here.

DM compiled the data base and FT thoroughly checked all entries in the data base, DB, FP and SVH checked the species names against the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and DB converted the database into DarwinCore. TA (dragonflies, grasshoppers, ladybirds), WD (carabid beetles), KD (breeding birds), KL (grasshoppers, waterbeetles, waterbugs), DM (butterflies), TO (mammals - bats), JP (molluscs), JS (amphibians and reptiles), AT (saproxylic beetles), KVDB (mammals), WVL (hornworts, liverworts, mosses, vascular plants) and HV (freshwater fishes) provided the life-history traits for the different taxonomic groups.

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