A quick note on exciting work by Andra Waagmeester, Jerven Bolleman, and Hannah Bast. They have created an RDF version of GBIF and made it available via QLever. It is hosted by QLever together with other very large RDF datasets such as Wikidata and Open Street Map. There is an experimental user interface at https://ui.qlever.dev/gbif and if you want to
Roderic Page
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Diversifying the GBIF Data Model
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has been immensely successful in mobilizing a large number of records documenting species occurrence through a global network of data publishers. Today over 2 billion records are available for search and download through the GBIF.org infrastructure, with over 200 million originating in natural science
Tim Robertson +2 more
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GBIF Benin's Data Portal [PDF]
GBIF Benin, hosted at the University of Abomey-Calavi, has published more than 338,000 occurrence records in 87 datasets and checklists. It has been a Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) node since 2004 and is a leader in several projects from the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme.
Lecoq,Marie-Elise +5 more
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Mining buried plant trait data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): Comparison and integration with multiple plant trait databases [PDF]
Abstract Premise Despite the availability of several plant trait databases, significant traits remain undocumented for a substantial number of species. To address this issue, the current study explored digital text from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) as an innovative source of plant trait information and evaluated its capacity to ...
Katori T, Oguro M.
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Petal to the metal: The slow road to automating large-scale phenology labeling for herbarium specimens. [PDF]
Abstract Premise Herbarium specimens represent critical historical records of plant phenology, yet automating annotation of reproductive structures remains challenging given the diversity of floral morphologies, specimen age and quality, and image quality.
Grady EL +6 more
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Maps and models of the distributions of animals and plants are important for assessing their current and future status. Such models rely on information on the environment and occurrence of species.
Patrick KRAPF
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Towards a Post-Graduate Level Curriculum for Biodiversity Informatics. Perspectives from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Community [PDF]
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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Biodiversity in cities: the impact of biodiversity data across spatial scales on diversity estimates
The assessment and monitoring of biodiversity in urban areas has been shown to have enormous potential to inform integrative urban planning in cities. In this context, digital biodiversity repositories such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Garzon Lopez C.X., Savickytė Gabija
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Establishing the regional center on biodiversity data mobilization in the Northwestern Siberia (Russia) [PDF]
The initiatives on data mobilization in biodiversity science have been steadily on the rise throughout the past few decades. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) supports this development and enables open access to biodiversity data on an ...
Nina V. Filippova +2 more
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Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species
Measurement(s) Presence of invasive alien species Technology Type(s) Literature and datasets Factor Type(s) scientificName Sample Characteristic - Organism Multitaxon Sample Characteristic - Environment Multihabitat Sample Characteristic - Location ...
Shyama Pagad +9 more
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