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View article: Updating Species Dictionaries in the Citizen Science Platform iSpotnature.org with the Help of Its User Community and ChecklistBank
Updating Species Dictionaries in the Citizen Science Platform iSpotnature.org with the Help of Its User Community and ChecklistBank Open
The iSpot citizen science platform*1 allows anyone anywhere to upload images of biodiversity and its community of users helps to identify observations. Key elements of any such system are the species dictionaries that tie together all obse…
View article: Demonstration of Taxonomic Name Data Services through ChecklistBank
Demonstration of Taxonomic Name Data Services through ChecklistBank Open
ChecklistBank is a publishing platform and open data repository focused on taxonomic and nomenclatural datasets. It was launched at the end of 2020, and is a joint development by Catalogue of Life (COL) and the Global Biodiversity Informat…
View article: Name IDs and Name Matching for Catalogue of Life: Existing Services and Prospects
Name IDs and Name Matching for Catalogue of Life: Existing Services and Prospects Open
ChecklistBank, developed by Catalogue of Life (COL) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), is a publishing platform and open data repository focused on taxonomic and nomenclatural data sets (checklists). It contains close…
View article: Building on the Functionalities of GBIF-COL ChecklistBank
Building on the Functionalities of GBIF-COL ChecklistBank Open
ChecklistBank, co-developed by Catalogue of Life (COL) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), provides a suite of functionalities for building taxonomic data solutions. In addition to serving as a publishing platform and …
View article: Towards a More Comprehensive Catalogue of Life Checklist
Towards a More Comprehensive Catalogue of Life Checklist Open
The Catalogue of Life (COL) Checklist 2023 (Bánki et al. 2023) includes over 2.1 million accepted species underpinned by a large international community of more than 500 expert taxonomists. The 164 supporting sources are available through …
View article: Towards a Quality Assurance and Quality Control Mechanism for Species List Building
Towards a Quality Assurance and Quality Control Mechanism for Species List Building Open
Catalogue of Life (COL) brings together the efforts and contributions of taxonomists from around the world, and addresses the needs of researchers, policy-makers, environmental managers and the wider public for a consistent, up-to-date and…
View article: An expert curated global legume checklist improves the accuracy of occurrence, biodiversity and taxonomic data
An expert curated global legume checklist improves the accuracy of occurrence, biodiversity and taxonomic data Open
The Legume Phylogeny Working Group’s Taxonomy Working Group was tasked to create a community endorsed global legume checklist that will serve as a primary source of taxa for biodiversity data platforms and legume-related research. The chec…
View article: Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing
Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing Open
The paper summarises many years of discussions and experience of biodiversity publishers, organisations, research projects and individual researchers, and proposes recommendations for implementation of persistent identifiers for article me…
View article: Introducing ChecklistBank: An index and repository for taxonomic data
Introducing ChecklistBank: An index and repository for taxonomic data Open
As a joint development between Catalogue of Life (COL) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), ChecklistBank supports the publication and curation of checklists and provides a platform for their consistent discovery, use a…
View article: Linking Fennoscandian Species of Two Fungal Genera: A test case for linked open data
Linking Fennoscandian Species of Two Fungal Genera: A test case for linked open data Open
In Norway, Sweden and Finland, we all have our own taxonomy initiatives, mapping our biodiversity (Lahti and Skarp 2019, Sjödin Skarp 2019, Skarp et al. 2019). Together these countries make up most of Fennoscandia, sharing a large part of …
View article: Species of Hominidae
Species of Hominidae Open
Extant and extinct species of great apes, the family Hominidae. Taxonmomic opinions are largely based on wikipedia, with a special focus on the human taxonomy. So far only the Hominini tribe is covered.
View article: GBIF Integration of Open Data
GBIF Integration of Open Data Open
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) runs a global data infrastructure that integrates data from more than 1700 institutions. Combining data at this scale has been achieved by deploying open Application Programming Interface…
View article: A Collective Effort to Update the Legume Checklist
A Collective Effort to Update the Legume Checklist Open
Taxonomic names are critical to the communication of biodiversity—they link data together whether it be distribution data, traits or phylogeny. Large taxonomic groups, such as many plant families, are globally distributed as is the taxonom…
View article: The Catalogue of Life Data Package - A new format for exchanging nomenclatural and taxonomic information
The Catalogue of Life Data Package - A new format for exchanging nomenclatural and taxonomic information Open
The Catalogue of Life Data Package (COLDP) format was developed to overcome limitations existing in currently used formats for sharing taxonomic information, namely Darwin Core Archives (DwC-A) and the Catalogue of Life (CoL) submission fo…
View article: ChristianLanger/eml-profile: EBV-EML-Schema
ChristianLanger/eml-profile: EBV-EML-Schema Open
Version v0.5 of the EBV Metadata Profile XSD schema. Version v0.5 is focused on species-level EBVs, especially on the species populations EBV class, and maybe equally applicable to the species traits EBV class. However, this version doesn´…
View article: Catalogue of Life Plus: A collaborative project to complete the checklist of the world's species
Catalogue of Life Plus: A collaborative project to complete the checklist of the world's species Open
Although the Catalogue of Life (CoL) continues to expand, its coverage is still far from complete, with several important megadiverse groups mostly lacking. Additionally, some segments of the Catalogue require major work to resolve synonym…
View article: Integrating ABCD and DarwinCore: Toward a better foundation for biodiversity information standards
Integrating ABCD and DarwinCore: Toward a better foundation for biodiversity information standards Open
For the last 15 years, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) has recognized two competing standards for organism occurrence data, ABCD (Access to Biological Collections Data; Holetschek et al. 2012) and DarwinCore (Wieczorek et al. 201…
View article: Supporting 21st Century Taxonomy and Society Through Collaborative Cataloguing of the World's Species
Supporting 21st Century Taxonomy and Society Through Collaborative Cataloguing of the World's Species Open
Biological sciences have for more than 250 years depended on the nomenclatural system established by Carl Linnaeus to assign names to the world's species. These names can be considered to be a pre-digital effort to associate species, as ke…
View article: Catalogue of Life Plus: innovating the CoL systems as a foundation for a clearinghouse for names and taxonomy
Catalogue of Life Plus: innovating the CoL systems as a foundation for a clearinghouse for names and taxonomy Open
In 2015, the global biodiversity information initiatives Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), Barcode of Life Data systems (BoLD), Catalogue of Life (CoL), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)…
View article: History and development of ABCDEFG: a data standard for geosciences
History and development of ABCDEFG: a data standard for geosciences Open
Museums and their collections have specially customized databases in order to optimally gather and record their contents and associated metadata associated with their specimens. To share, exchange, and publish data, an appropriate data sta…
View article: Evaluating an Approach for mapping FHIR Profiles to Research Protocols
Evaluating an Approach for mapping FHIR Profiles to Research Protocols Open
Observational studies and clinical trials have become increasingly important over recent years and play an essential role in advancing medical knowledge. In today’s world of clinical research, it is not possible to imagine trials without t…
View article: Linking molecular and morphological biodiversity evidence by building a single name space
Linking molecular and morphological biodiversity evidence by building a single name space Open
<p>GBIF is working on the solution to represent molecular (DNA) evidence of species presence in time and space alongside the currently prevailing morphological evidence. Among many benefits of this approach are filling the geographic…
View article: Backbone Family Classification Patch
Backbone Family Classification Patch Open
Patch to assign a classification to otherwise unclassified backbone families which get pooled under the "incertae sedis" kingdom of the GBIF taxonomic backbone.
View article: The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Standard specification
The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Data Standard specification Open
This FAIRsharing record describes: The GGBN Data Standard is a set of terms and controlled vocabularies designed to represent sample facts. It does not cover e.g., scientific name, geography, or physiological facts. This allows combining t…
View article: GBIF Backbone Patch
GBIF Backbone Patch Open
A checklist providing patches to the automatically assembled GBIF backbone taxonomy. Names and their classification in this list will take precedence over other backbone sources, thus allowing small manual interventions in the backbone bui…
View article: Toward a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data
Toward a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data Open
Soil biodiversity is immense, with an estimated 10–100 million organisms belonging to over 5000 taxa in a handful of soil. In spite of the importance of soil biodiversity for ecosystem functions and services, information on soil species, f…