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Report on New Methods for Data Quality Assurance, Verification and Enrichment
Distributed Systems of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) will facilitate the production of tens of millions of natural history specimen collection images along with their labels each year. The labels of these specimens contain valuable information for research studies, but their transcription can be very difficult and time consuming with often hard...Philips, Sarah ; Mathias, Dillen ; Quentin, Groom ; Green, Laura ; Weech, Marie-Hélène …
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Updating data standards in transcription
There are more than 1.2 billion biological specimens in the world’s museums and herbaria. These objects are a particularly important form of biological sample and observation. They underpin biological taxonomy, but the data they contain have many other uses in the biological and environmental sciences. Nevertheless, from their conception they...Groom, Quentin ; Dillen, Mathias ; Hardy, Helen ; Phillips, Sarah ; Willemse, Luc
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SYNTHESYS+ Virtual Access - Report on the Ideas Call (October to November 2019)
The SYNTHESYS consortium has been operational since 2004, and has facilitated physical access by individual researchers to European natural history collections through its Transnational Access programme (TA). For the first time, SYNTHESYS+ will be offering virtual access to collections through digitisation, with two calls for the programme, the first in...Hardy, Helen ; Knapp, Sandra ; Allan, E. Louise ; Berger, Frederik ; Dixey, Katherine …
virtual data, digitisation, digitization, digital data, access, collaboration, and natural history collections
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Kew Tree of Life Explorer - Release notes 0.1
Release notes for the Tree of Life Explorer data release 0.1.Kersey, Paul
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Overview of current practices in data analysis for wood identification. A guide for the different timber tracking methods.
Today we have five types of timber tracking tools available. Each has its own strengths and limitations (see the Timber Tracking Tool Infogram), but together they offer a broad range of methods that can assist us in identifying the botanical as well as the geographic origin (provenance) of most kinds...Beeckman, Hans ; Blanc-Jolivet, Céline ; Boeschoten, Laura E ; Cabezas, Jose Antonio ; Chaix, Gilles …
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Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on Biodiversity
National governments are the main actors responsible for mapping and protecting their biodiversity, but countries differ in their capacity, willingness, and effectiveness to do so. We quantify the global biodiversity managed by different regime types and developed a tool to explore the links between level of democracy and other key...Zizka, Alexander ; Rydén, Oskar ; Edler, Daniel ; Klein, Johannes ; Aronsson, Heléne …
Democracy, Regime type, Autocracy, Specimen collection, and Biodiversity
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The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology v1.01: Descriptive profiles for Biomes and Ecosystem Functional Groups
The conservation and management of ecosystems has never been more central to the future of biodiversity and human well-being on Earth. The Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 agenda and UN Sustainable Development Goals mandate global action that depends on ecosystem assessment. Rapidly developing information infrastructure to support these global policy...Keith, David A. ; Ferrer, Jose R. ; Nicholson, Emily ; Bishop, Melanie J. ; Polidoro, Beth A. …
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Knowledge gaps in the genetics of UK trees and shrubs
This report evaluates the knowledge gaps related to the genetics of UK trees and shrubs including those targeted by the UK National Tree Seed Project. Risk assessments have been conducted by following a decision tree based on two essential considerations: 1. Sampling strategies to capture genetic diversity, 2. Selection of...Gargiulo, Roberta
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Taxus baccata L. genetic risk assessment
A summary of the current understanding of genetic diversity and life history traits of Taxus baccata within the UK, including a genetic risk assessment for population sampling and current knowledge gaps.Gargiulo, Roberta