The Biodiversity Informatics Potential Index [PDF]
BMC Bioinformatics, 2011 Background Biodiversity informatics is a relatively new discipline extending computer science in the context of biodiversity data, and its development to date has not been uniform throughout the world.
Ariño Arturo H +2 more
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Data Leakage and Loss in Biodiversity Informatics [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2018 The field of biodiversity informatics is in a massive, “grow-out” phase of creating and enabling large-scale biodiversity data resources. Because perhaps 90% of existing biodiversity data nonetheless remains unavailable for science and policy ...
A. Townsend Peterson +4 more
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Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2014 We describe an implementation of the Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) standard that allows for the exchange of biodiversity information contained within the Scratchpads virtual research environment with external collaborators.
Ed Baker, Simon Rycroft, Vincent Smith
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India Biodiversity Portal: An integrated, interactive and participatory biodiversity informatics platform [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2016 This paper describes a growing biodiversity platform, launched in 2008, which organizes knowledge on the biodiversity of India. The main objective and originality of the India Biodiversity Portal (IBP) is to aggregate curated biodiversity data of different kinds (e.g.
Thomas Vattakaven +6 more
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Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The landscape of biodiversity data infrastructures and organisations is complex and fragmented. Many occupy specialised niches representing narrow segments of the multidimensional biodiversity informatics space, while others operate across a broad front,
Vincent Smith +16 more
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Towards a Post-Graduate Level Curriculum for Biodiversity Informatics. Perspectives from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Community [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 Biodiversity informatics is a new and evolving field, requiring efforts to develop capacity and a curriculum for this field of science. The main objective was to summarise the level of activity and the efforts towards developing biodiversity informatics ...
Fatima Parker-Allie +16 more
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Towards a biodiversity knowledge graph [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2016 One way to think about "core" biodiversity data is as a network of connected entities, such as taxa, taxonomic names, publications, people, species, sequences, images, and collections that form the "biodiversity knowledge graph".
Roderic Page
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BioWikiNet: Multilingual wikipedia taxonomic networks aligned with the GBIF backbone taxonomy [PDF]
Scientific DataBioWikiNet is a multilingual dataset describing biodiversity representation across 11 Wikipedia language editions selected for their global reach and relevance to biodiversity-rich regions.
Shinya Uryu
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Bridging the biodiversity data gaps: Recommendations to meet users’ data needs [PDF]
, 2013 A strong case has been made for freely available, high quality data on species occurrence, in order to track changes in biodiversity. However, one of the main issues surrounding the provision of such data is that sources vary in quality, scope, and ...
Ariño, Arturo +6 more
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Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2019 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 networks, national,
Donald Hobern +15 more
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