biodiversity informatics: digitising the living world
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Biodiversity informatics:Digitising the living world
@rdmpage
http://iphylo.blogspot.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695
GBIF.org 500 million records
Specimens recorded from “USA”
441,023 data points in Kenya…
None of the data about Kenya comes from Kenya
iNaturalist
EOL photos in Flickr
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92668
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695
Taxonomy
Names of animals must be:
published
Names of animals must be:
unique
Simples
O Lambert et al. Nature 466, 105-108 (2010) doi:10.1038/nature09067
Skull, mandible and tooth morphology of the holotype of L. melvillei MUSM 1676.
Leviathan melvillei
Bugger…
Livyatan melvillei
Two kinds of #fail
We don’t have a list of all names
Publications containing names often not accessible
Leviathan melvillei
If it’s not online it doesn’t exist
@BioDivLibrary
45 million pages, all Open Access
Problems with Biodiversity Heritage
Library (BHL)
• emphasises “old” stuff (pre-1923)
• unit is scanned book, not scientific article
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6162/6176297334_48b2dc550a_z.jpg
100,000 articles from http://biostor.org (BHL)
1923 today
Numbers of new animal names
1923
WWI WWII
PMID:948206
http://biostor.org/reference/102054
http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/215921922/
BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bhl-and-gbif-as-biomedical-databases.html
Biodiversity Knowledge Graph
MESH term
Impact of
collection
In an attempt to live up to that increasing demand for documentation, the leadership of the Natural History Museum of Denmark has issued an order to its curatorial staff - The staff members are requested to document which publications from 2011, written entirely by external scientists, that in one way or another are based on material in the collections of the Museum.
http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen@TAXACOM
https://twitter.com/#!/search/10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0036881
https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176
https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176
http://www.museum-analytics.org/
Cited, linkable specimens
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Herpetology Collections
11194
CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
MCZ Herpetology Collection
Herpetology Collection (University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center)
9619
6720
5818
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695
How do we build this?