Submissions tagged with biodiversity informatics
(4 documents)
An evaluation of taxonomic name finding & next steps in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) developments
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of natural history libraries that are actively scanning scientific literature from their collections and publishing the digiti…
Received 25 June 2009 18:15 UTC; Posted 26 June 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment
Enhanced display of scientific articles using extended metadata
Although the Web has transformed science publishing, scientific papers themselves are still essentially “black boxes”, with much of their content intended for human readers only. Typically, comput…
Received 24 April 2009 16:36 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
bioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics
Linking together the data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) requires services that can mint, resolve, and discover glo…
Received 17 April 2009 17:21 UTC; Posted 17 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Biodiversity informatics: the challenge of linking data and the role of shared identifiers
A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifier linking records…
Received 03 April 2008 16:51 UTC; Posted 03 April 2008
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics
