Beyond PDF publishing: Digital accessible knowledge as the new frontier in biodiversity exploration and preservation
| Main Authors: | Agosti, Donat, Penev, Lyubomir, Bénichou, Laurence, Miller, Jeremy A., Dikow, Torsten, Guidoti, Marcus |
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| Format: | info Proceeding Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4245273 |
Daftar Isi:
- The world wide web started out as a digital space for linking documents. The development of the semantic web means that access to raw structured data online is becoming increasingly important. The implications of this for the sciences, especially systematics, mean that we have the capability to build a knowledge graph linking all domain knowledge for every species known. All species are grounded in taxonomic literature, and for a large portion of species, literature remains the only source of information.In this presentation, we will demonstrate the new reality of taxonomic publishing, where a work's underlying data are immediately digitally accessible and reusable, consistent with findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) principles. Examples will feature journals published by Pensoft, the European Journal of Taxonomy and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris made accessible through the Plazi workflow. The Biodiversity Literature Repository is a resource allowing for the deposition of taxonomic treatments, figures, and articles with rich metadata and cross-citation. The re-use of this liberated data will be illustrated using the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), where over 45,000 species are present solely because of data made digitally accessible through semantically enhanced taxonomic literature. We conclude with a plea to move urgently towards broad adoption of open data publishing principles. As scientists in an era of profound biodiversity loss, this has to be our maxim.