DNA barcoding and taxonomy: dark taxa and dark texts

RDM Page - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Both classical taxonomy and DNA barcoding are engaged in the task of digitizing the living
world. Much of the taxonomic literature remains undigitized. The rise of open access …

[ספר][B] Principles of data quality

AD Chapman - 2005‏ - books.google.com
This paper was commissioned from Arthur Chapman in 2004 by the GBIF DIGIT programme
to highlight the importance of data quality as it relates to primary species occurrence data …

The quiet revolution: biodiversity informatics and the internet

FA Bisby - Science, 2000‏ - science.org
The massive development of biodiversity-related information systems on the Internet has
created much that appears exciting but chaotic, a diversity to match biodiversity itself. This …

Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects

A Güntsch, R Hyam, G Hagedorn, S Chagnoux… - Database, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
With biodiversity research activities being increasingly shifted to the web, the need for a
system of persistent and stable identifiers for physical collection objects becomes …

Phylogeographic information systems: putting the geography into phylogeography

DM Kidd, MG Ritchie - Journal of Biogeography, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Phylogeography is concerned with the observation, description and analysis of the spatial
distribution of genotypes and the inference of historical scenarios. In the past, the discipline …

Using OWL to model biological knowledge

R Stevens, ME Aranguren, K Wolstencroft… - International Journal of …, 2007‏ - Elsevier
Much has been written of the facilities for ontology building and reasoning offered for
ontologies expressed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Less has been written about …

Sample data processing in an additive and reproducible taxonomic workflow by using character data persistently linked to preserved individual specimens

N Kilian, T Henning, P Plitzner, A Müller, A Güntsch… - Database, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
We present the model and implementation of a workflow that blazes a trail in systematic
biology for the re-usability of character data (data on any kind of characters of pheno-and …

The web and the structure of taxonomy

HCJ Godfray, BR Clark, IJ Kitching, SJ Mayo… - Systematic …, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
An easily accessible taxonomic knowledge base is critically important for all biodiversity-
related sciences. At present, taxonomic information is organized and regulated by a system …

Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa: their context and definition are required for accurate data integration

JB Kennedy, R Kukla, T Paterson - … Workshop on Data Integration in the …, 2005‏ - Springer
Biologists use scientific names to label the organisms described in their data; however,
these names are not unique identifiers for taxonomic entities. Alternative taxonomic …

Taxonomy for humans or computers? Cognitive pragmatics for big data

B Sterner, NM Franz - Biological Theory, 2017‏ - Springer
Criticism of big data has focused on showing that more is not necessarily better, in the sense
that data may lose their value when taken out of context and aggregated together. The next …