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2023
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Safeguarding Access to 500 Years of Biodiversity Data: Sustainability planning for the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Headquartered at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA), BHL is a global consortium of research institutions working together to build and maintain a critical piece of biodiversity data infrastructure. BHL provides free access... -
2023
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Connecting the Dots: Aligning human capacity through networks toward a globally interoperable Digital Extended Specimen (DES) infrastructure.
Thanks to substantial support for biodiversity data mobilization in recent decades, billions of occurrence records are openly available, documenting life on Earth and enabling timely research, awareness raising, and policy-making. Initiatives across local to global scales have been separately funded to serve different, yet often overlapping audiences of data users,...Ellwood, Elizabeth R. ; Addink, Wouter ; Bates, John ; Bentley, Andrew ; Buschbom, Jutta …
Collaboration, Biodiversity, Digital Extended Specimen (DES), International partners, and Roadmap
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2022
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New Developments and Future Vision of the Nomenclatural Database IPNI and the Taxonomic Database WCVP.
IPNI (International Plant Names Index) has been providing nomenclatural data in one form or another for the past 138 years. Over the past decade, great progress has been made in improving the data and making it accessible via a new website. We will be showcasing the new features that have...Govaerts, Rafaël ; Hartley, Helen ; Krieger, Jonathan ; Wrankmore, Emma
IPNI, Taxonomy, International Plant Names Index, WCVP, Nomenclature, Plant names, and World Checklist of Vascular Plants
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2019
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Addressing Uncertainties in Machine Learning Predictions of Conservation Status.
Extinction risk assessments are increasingly important to many stakeholders (Bennun et al. 2017) but there remain large gaps in our knowledge about the status of many species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN 2019, hereafter Red List) is the most comprehensive assessment of extinction risk. However, it includes...Walker, Barnaby ; Leão, Tarciso ; Bachman, Steven ; Lucas, Eve ; Nic Lughadha, Eimear
Conservation assessment, Machine learning, Natural history collections, Uncertainty, and IUCN Red List
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2019
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Examining Herbarium Specimen Citation: Developing a literature-based institutional impact measure.
Herbarium specimens are critical components of the research process - providing "what, where, when" evidence for species distributions and through type designation, providing the basis for un-ambiguous, standardised nomenclature facilitating the interpretation of scientific names. Specimen references are embedded within research article texts, by convention usually presented in a relatively...Nicolson, Nicky ; Paton, Alan ; Phillips, Sarah ; Tucker, Allan
Text classification, Specimen citation, Text mining, and Citation metrics
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2019
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Integrating Collector and Author Roles Across Specimen and Publication Datasets.
This work builds on the outputs of a collector data-mining exercise applied to GBIF mobilised herbarium specimen metadata, which uses unsupervised learning (clustering) to identify collectors from minimal metadata associated with field collected specimens (the DarwinCore terms , and ). Here, we outline methods to integrate these data-mined collector entities...Nicolson, Nicky ; Paton, Alan ; Phillips, Sarah ; Tucker, Allan
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2019
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Progress in Authority Management of People Names for Collections.
The concept of building a network of relationships between entities, a knowledge graph, is one of the most effective methods to understand the relations between data. By organizing data, we facilitate the discovery of complex patterns not otherwise evident in the raw data. Each datum at the nodes of a...Groom, Quentin ; Besombes, Chloé ; Brown, Josh ; Chagnoux, Simon ; Georgiev, Teodor …
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2019
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Challenges of Integrating and Curating Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Data in the World Checklist of Vascular Plants.
The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew’s global names and taxonomy output. The underlying data sources, the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP), and the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families – in Review (WCSP –...Turner, Robert ; Govaerts, Rafaël
Nomenclature, Names, IPNI, World Checklist of Vascular Plants, and Taxonomy
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2021
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A Collective Effort to Update the Legume Checklist.
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 taxonomic expertise of the family. A growing knowledge base requires collaboration to develop an up-to-date checklist...Le Roux, Marianne ; Döring, Markus ; Bruneau, Anne ; Miller, Joe ; Govaerts, Rafaël …
Checklists, Legumes, Leguminosae, and Taxonomy
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2018
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Engaging Children with Herbarium Specimens at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew’s Science Festival.
The Kew and Wakehurst Science Festivals consists of five days of activities over two weekends. Workshops and tours allow visitors to engage with the scientists and their research. We designed an interactive experience, so children could understand what a herbarium sheet is and the process of making one. The Herbarium...Bavington, Melissa
Engagement, Botanical specimens, Science communication, Herbarium, Herbarium sheet, and Science Festival