Adds quality and value by storing the results of validation (e.g., testing that the coordinates for a location fall within the stated country), standardization (e.g., adding the countryCode "MM" and country "Myanmar" for a record with the country "Burma"), external data lookups (e.g., adding the values of elevation and environmental attributes such as temperature and precipitation for a record based on its georeferenced coordinates), data quality rating (a relative measure of the completeness of records), and term resolution (e.g., equating ‘liver’ or ‘muscle’ with a tissue).