Submissions tagged with taxonomy
(6 documents)
BHL, The Biodiversity Heritage Library: An Expanding International Collaboration
Background/Question/MethodsThe Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL; http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/), one of the cornerstones of the Encyclopedia of Lif…
Received 15 August 2009 01:14 UTC; Posted 17 August 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
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
Check Your Data Freedom: A Taxonomy to Assess Life Science Database Openness
Molecular biology data are subject to terms of use that vary widely between databases and curating institutions. This research presents a taxonomy of contractual and technical restrictions applicab…
Received 17 July 2008 15:28 UTC; Posted 18 July 2008
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
1st INCF Workshop on Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and Taxonomy
The goal of this workshop was to agree on a general strategy for developing a systematic, useful, and scientifically appropriate framework for neuroanatomical nomenclature. The workshop focused on …
Received 08 April 2008 14:34 UTC; Posted 08 April 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience, 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
Towards a Taxonomically Intelligent Phylogenetic Database
This note outlines some of the key intellectual obstacles that stand in the way of creating a usable phylogenetic database. These challenges include the need to accommodate multiple taxonomic names…
Received 18 September 2007 09:01 UTC; Posted 18 September 2007
Posted to: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
