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A conceptual approach to developing biodiversity informatics as a field of science in South Africa

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
In South Africa, as in other parts of the world, Biodiversity Informatics (BDI) has been identified as a young field of science that lies at the nexus of several disciplines, including informatics, biology and mathematics/statistics. Being such a new and
Fatima Parker-Allie, Fatima Parker-Allie, Mark J. Gibbons, Douglas M. Harebottle   +3 more
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Effectiveness analysis of the National Specimen Information Infrastructure (NSII) in supporting scientific research on biodiversity

Guangxi Zhiwu, 2023
With the rapid development of biodiversity informatics, more and more open biological data can be used by researchers. Taking an open data platform as an example, analyzing the research hotspots and development trends in the field of biodiversity in ...
Dongmei JIN, Ling YANG, Zheping XU, Cui XIAO, Maofang LUO, Keping MA   +5 more
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The Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility as a best-practice model for biodiversity data infrastructures

Scientific Data, 2021
Biodiversity informatics has advanced rapidly with the maturation of major biodiversity data infrastructures (BDDIs), such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility sharing unprecedented data volumes.
Leif Schulman, Kari Lahti, Esko Piirainen, Mikko Heikkinen, Olli Raitio, Aino Juslén   +5 more
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Biodiversity informatics: the emergence of a field. [PDF]

BMC Bioinformatics, 2009
Recent years have seen great technological advances that have helped usher in a new generation of approaches to understand and share knowledge about the planet in which we live. A number of major initiatives that aim to catalyze necessary technological and biological advances synergistically have emerged globally.
Sarkar IN.
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Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia of life [PDF]

, 2010
In his 2003 essay E O Wilson outlined his vision for an “encyclopaedia of life” comprising “an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth”, each page containing “the scientific name of the species, a ...
C Bizer, C Rinaldo, C Thomas, D Hull, E Garfield, E Pennisi, E Wilson, F Krell, G Nelson, J Giles, JR Gregg, JW Huss, JW Huss, LB Holthuis, M Pickford, M Waldrop, MI Bidartondo, PD Bridge, RC Buck, RD Page, RDM Page, Roderic D. M. Page, S Lawrence, T Lehmann, T Lehmann, WE Schevill, WE Schevill, YL Werner   +27 more
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Recommendations for interoperability among infrastructures [PDF]

Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2022
The BiCIKL project is born from a vision that biodiversity data are most useful if they are presented as a network of data that can be integrated and viewed from different starting points.
Sofie Meeus, Wouter Addink, Donat Agosti, Christos Arvanitidis, Bachir Balech, Mathias Dillen, Mariya Dimitrova, Juan Miguel González-Aranda, Jörg Holetschek, Sharif Islam, Thomas Jeppesen, Daniel Mietchen, Nicky Nicolson, Lyubomir Penev, Tim Robertson, Patrick Ruch, Maarten Trekels, Quentin Groom   +17 more
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South Africa’s initiative toward an integrated biodiversity data portal

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Researchers and policymakers have called on the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), in its role as the statutory biodiversity organisation of South Africa, to develop a coordinated and integrated biodiversity informatics hub.
Brenda Daly, Fhatani Ranwashe
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Biodiversity informatics [PDF]

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2011
AbstractEditor's SummaryFor millennia, information about biological diversity has been collected as a way to understand the living world. The information record has evolved from early papyrus to modern electronic collections, but challenges to information access persist, despite and partly due to a variety of digital techniques and applications ...
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Bhutan’s Challenges in Biodiversity Informatics [PDF]

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2019
Access to reliable and updated data and information on the status of biodiversity for effective conservation and sustainable use has been one of the major challenges in Bhutan. The current scenario of inaccessibility is due to the fact that biodiversity inventories and documentation are carried out within the context of individual projects and ...
Choki Gyeltshen, Sangay Dema
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The Taxon Hypothesis Paradigm—On the Unambiguous Detection and Communication of Taxa

Microorganisms, 2020
Here, we describe the taxon hypothesis (TH) paradigm, which covers the construction, identification, and communication of taxa as datasets. Defining taxa as datasets of individuals and their traits will make taxon identification and most importantly ...
Urmas Kõljalg, Henrik R. Nilsson, Dmitry Schigel, Leho Tedersoo, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Tom W. May, Andy F. S. Taylor, Thomas Stjernegaard Jeppesen, Tobias Guldberg Frøslev, Björn D. Lindahl, Kadri Põldmaa, Irja Saar, Ave Suija, Anton Savchenko, Iryna Yatsiuk, Kristjan Adojaan, Filipp Ivanov, Timo Piirmann, Raivo Pöhönen, Allan Zirk, Kessy Abarenkov   +20 more
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