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View article: Publishing data to support the fight against human vector-borne diseases
Publishing data to support the fight against human vector-borne diseases Open
Vector-borne diseases are responsible for more than 17% of human cases of infectious diseases. In most situations, effective control of debilitating and deadly vector-bone diseases (VBDs), such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever…
View article: Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL)
Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) Open
BiCIKL is an European Union Horizon 2020 project that will initiate and build a new European starting community of key research infrastructures, establishing open science practices in the domain of biodiversity through provision of access …
View article: Towards Interlinked FAIR Biodiversity Knowledge: The BiCIKL perspective
Towards Interlinked FAIR Biodiversity Knowledge: The BiCIKL perspective Open
The Horizon 2020 project Bi odiversity C ommunity I ntegrated K nowledge L ibrary (BiCIKL) (started 1st of May 2021, duration 3 years) will build a new European community of key research infrastructures, researchers, citizen scientists and…
View article: Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. Open
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Copas, Kyle, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6590-599X. Claims were made on Bloodhound, https://bloodhound-tracker.net using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Fa…
View article: Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. Open
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Copas, Kyle, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6590-599X. Claims were made on Bloodhound, https://bloodhound-tracker.net using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Fa…
View article: Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. Open
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Copas, Kyle, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6590-599X. Claims were made on Bloodhound, https://bloodhound-tracker.net using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Fa…
View article: Mirror, mirror…is GBIF the FAIRest of them all?
Mirror, mirror…is GBIF the FAIRest of them all? Open
<p>GBIF&#8212;the Global Biodiversity Information Facility&#8212;and its network of more than 1,500 institutions maintain the world's largest index of biodiversity data (https://www.gbif.org), containing nearly 1.4 billion sp…
View article: Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. Open
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Copas, Kyle, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6590-599X. Claims were made on Bloodhound, https://bloodhound-tracker.net using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Fa…
View article: Training Machines to Identify Species using GBIF-mediated Datasets
Training Machines to Identify Species using GBIF-mediated Datasets Open
Advances in machine vision technology are rapidly enabling new and innovative uses within the field of biodiversity. Computers are now able to use images to identify tens of thousands of species across a wide range of taxonomic groups in r…
View article: Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. Open
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Copas, Kyle, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6590-599X. Claims were made on Bloodhound, https://bloodhound-tracker.net using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Fa…
View article: Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited.
Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. Open
Natural history specimen data collected and/or identified by Copas, Kyle, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6590-599X. Claims were made on Bloodhound, https://bloodhound-tracker.net using specimen data from the Global Biodiversity Information Fa…
View article: Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge
Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge Open
There has been major progress over the last two decades in digitising historical knowledge of biodiversity and in making biodiversity data freely and openly accessible. Interlocking efforts bring together international partnerships and net…
View article: Example 3: Complex trapping data scenario
Example 3: Complex trapping data scenario Open
Tick surveillance performed using tick drags and flags. The tick drags/flags report three life stages independently (adult, larvae, and nymph). Larvae are only identified to the genus, while adults and nymphs are identified to the species.…
View article: The GDPR-compliance waltz: balancing necessity, legitimate interests and data-subject rights in the GBIF network
The GDPR-compliance waltz: balancing necessity, legitimate interests and data-subject rights in the GBIF network Open
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View article: Example 1: Long-format trapping data
Example 1: Long-format trapping data Open
Each row captures count data for a single species’ occurrence in a given sampling event. This illustrates an example of the most common mosquito collection protocol
View article: Example 2: Wide format trapping data
Example 2: Wide format trapping data Open
Each row captures count data from a given sampling event. Each identified taxonomic group is identified in a separate column. An ‘additional sample information’ field, ‘sub-location,’ has been added to describe the various locations around…
View article: Example 4: Complex trapping data scenario
Example 4: Complex trapping data scenario Open
Tick surveillance performed using collections of ectoparasites on trapped mice. The survey uses an additional sample information field to record the sex of the trapped mouse from which the parasites were collected.
View article: Minimum Information for Reusable Arthropod Abundance Data (MIReAAD)
Minimum Information for Reusable Arthropod Abundance Data (MIReAAD) Open
Arthropods play a dominant role in natural and human-modified terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. Spatially-explicit population time-series are crucial for statistical or mathematical models of these dynamics and assessment of their veterinary…
View article: Citizen Science and Open Data: a model for Invasive Alien Species in Europe
Citizen Science and Open Data: a model for Invasive Alien Species in Europe Open
Invasive Alien Species (IAS) are a growing threat to Europe's biodiversity. The implementation of European Union Regulation on IAS can benefit from the involvement of the public in IAS recording and management through Citizen Science (CS) …
View article: On natural history collections, digitized and not: a response to Ferro and Flick
On natural history collections, digitized and not: a response to Ferro and Flick Open
Ferro and Flick (2015) describe their efforts to estimate the distribution for a species of rove beetle via the study of specimens from entomological collections, and compare these results to digitally accessible open data. Their study pro…