Digitisation of biological collections
A. Torralba-Burrial & F.J. Ocharan
Introduction and objectives
» Iberian Peninsula has 79 species Odonata
» There is a significant gap in accessible knowledge
» Dataset of Odonata deposited at BOS Arthropod Collection (University of Oviedo):
» 16,604 specimens
» 1950- present
» Including
˃ holo & paratypes
˃ Threatened spp. data
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Odonata records in some European datasets
Other datasets info: Conce et al. 2010, De Knijf & Anselin 2010, Parr 2010, Termaat et al. 2010, GBIF
Geographic distribution BOS-Odo dataset
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Specimens by provinces
Data of:
40 Spanish provinces
2 old Portuguese provinces
Northern part of the Peninsula is better covered.
Asturias (~ 4100 specimens)
Huesca (~3400)
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BOS-Odo taxonomic distribution
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BOS-Odo sources
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BOS Arthropod Collection digitisation workflow
This is our workflow:
Specimens preparation
Data digitisation
Retrospective georefencing
Exporting datasets
Data quality control
Generalise sensitive data
Generate metadata
Dataset release
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Specimens preparation and data digitisation
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Retrospective georeferencing
Chapman & Wieczorek 2006 Iberpix, Google Earth
Data quality control
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Generalising sensitive species data
Chapman & Grafton 2008
Threatened species protected by inclusion in Habitats Directive and Spanish legislation, which populations are generalising in exported dataset. A) Coenagrion mercuriale; B) Macromia splendens; C) Oxygastra curtisii; D) Gomphus graslinii.
Generate metadata & dataset release
Generate metadata & dataset release
Generate metadata & dataset release
Generate metadata & dataset release
Citation
Datapaper: Torralba-Burrial A, Ocharan FJ (2013) Iberian Odonata distribution: data of the BOS Arthropod Collection (University of Oviedo, Spain). ZooKeys 306: 37–58. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.306.5289 Resource ID: GBIF key: http:// gbrds.gbif.org/browse/agent?uuid=7e31baf8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a Resource citation: Torralba-Burrial A, Ocharan FJ (2013 -). BOS Arthropod Collection Dataset: Iberian Odonata distribution. 16604 data records. Contributed by Torralba-Burrial A, Ocharan FJ, Outomuro D, Ocharan R, Salona MI, Benitez-Donoso A, Martinez JA, Martinez SR, and Brotons-Padilla M. Online at http://www.gbif.es:8080/ipt/archive.do?r=Bos-Odo and http://www.unioviedo.es/BOS/Zoologia/artropodos/odonata, version 1.0 (last updated on 2013-04-08), GBIF key: http://gbrds.gbif.org/browse/agent?uuid=7e31baf8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. Data Paper ID: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.306.5289