How global is the global biodiversity information facility? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 There is a concerted global effort to digitize biodiversity occurrence data from herbarium and museum collections that together offer an unparalleled archive of life on Earth over the past few centuries.
Chris Yesson +10 more
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Assessing the primary data hosted by the Spanish node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In order to effectively understand and cope with the current 'biodiversity crisis', having large-enough sets of qualified data is necessary. Information facilitators such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are ensuring increasing ...
Javier Otegui +3 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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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 With the development of biodiversity informatics, more and more data repositories have emerged, providing massive stores of open scientific data. The use of open data is increasingly valuable for scientific research and related decision making but little
Maofang Luo +7 more
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Gaps and drivers of global marine animal biodiversity from the surface to abyss [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsWith advances in global biodiversity data sharing, particularly following the Census of Marine Life, understanding of marine biodiversity has improved but remains incomplete.
Hanieh Saeedi
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Towards a Roadmap for Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2022 Natural history collections are the foundations upon which all knowledge of natural history is constructed. Biological specimens are the best documentation of variation within each species, increasingly serve as curated sources for reference DNA, and are
Donald Hobern +6 more
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Introducing guidelines for publishing DNA-derived occurrence data through biodiversity data platforms [PDF]
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2022 DNA sequencing efforts of environmental and other biological samples disclose unprecedented and largely untapped opportunities for advances in the taxonomy, ecology, and geographical distributions of our living world.
R. Henrik Nilsson +13 more
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White paper on the alignment and interoperability between the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) and EU infrastructures - The case of the European Environment Agency (EEA) [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) Research Infrastructure (RI) is presently in its preparatory phase. DiSSCo is developing a new distributed RI to operate as a one-stop-shop for the envisaged European Natural Science Collection ...
Niels Raes +8 more
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Aligning Standards Communities for Omics Biodiversity Data: Sustainable Darwin Core-MIxS Interoperability [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 The standardization of data, encompassing both primary and contextual information (metadata), plays a pivotal role in facilitating data (re-)use, integration, and knowledge generation.
Raïssa Meyer +18 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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