scholarly journals Unlocking the Entomological Collection of the Natural History Museum of Maputo, Mozambique

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domingos Sandramo ◽  
Enrico Nicosia ◽  
Silvio Cianciullo ◽  
Bernardo Muatinte ◽  
Almeida Guissamulo
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Biodiversity Information

The collections of the Natural History Museum of Maputo have a crucial role in the safeguarding of Mozambique's biodiversity, representing an important repository of data and materials regarding the natural heritage of the country. In this paper, a dataset is described, based on the Museum’s Entomological Collection recording 409 species belonging to seven orders and 48 families. Each specimen’s available data, such as geographical coordinates and taxonomic information, have been digitised to build the dataset. The specimens included in the dataset were obtained between 1914–2018 by collectors and researchers from the Natural History Museum of Maputo (once known as “Museu Alváro de Castro”) in all the country’s provinces, with the exception of Cabo Delgado Province. This paper adds data to the Biodiversity Network of Mozambique and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, within the objectives of the SECOSUD II Project and the Biodiversity Information for Development Programme. The aforementioned insect dataset is available on the GBIF Engine data portal (https://doi.org/10.15468/j8ikhb). Data were also shared on the Mozambican national portal of biodiversity data BioNoMo (https://bionomo.openscidata.org), developed by SECOSUD II Project.

scholarly journals The Living Atlases community in action: the GBIF Benin data portal

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25488
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Archambeau ◽  
Fabien Cavière ◽  
Kourouma Koura ◽  
Marie-Elise Lecoq ◽  
Sophie Pamerlon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Country ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Capacity Enhancement ◽  
Support Programme ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
The University ◽  
Biodiversity Information ◽  
Occurrence Records

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) (https://www.ala.org.au/) is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) node of Australia. They developed an open and free platform for sharing and exploring biodiversity data. All the modules are publicly available for reuse and customization on their GitHub account (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia). GBIF Benin, hosted at the University of Abomey-Calavi, has published more than 338 000 occurrence records from 87 datasets and 2 checklists. Through the GBIF Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (https://www.gbif.org/programme/82219/capacity-enhancement-support-programme), GBIF Benin, with the help of GBIF France, is in the process of deploying the Beninese data portal using the GBIF France back-end architecture. GBIF Benin is the first African country to implement this module of the ALA infrastructure. In this presentation, we will show you an overview of the registry and the occurrence search engine using the Beninese data portal. We will begin with the administration interface and how to manage metadata, then we will continue with the user interface of the registry and how you can find Beninese occurrences through the hub.

scholarly journals Use cases for Taxonomic Name Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Remsen ◽  
Olaf Banki
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Data Object ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Catalogue of Life Plus (CoL+) was started in 2017 as a collaborative project between the Catalogue of Life (COL), the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Barcode of Life Database (BOLD), Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) and representatives from natural history museum collections. The participants jointly recognized a need for the wider biodiversity community to coalesce around common and coordinated approaches for mobilizing and inter-linking biodiversity data and information across a range of scales, themes and types. The Catalogue of Life was identified as being the clear choice to deliver taxonomic services to support these partners. Taxonomic services refer to solutions that address challenges inherent to scientific names: the ubiquitous, and often sole, contextual linkage between a biodiversity data object and the taxon to which it is linked. Without access to expert-mediated taxonomic knowledge, biodiversity data networks risk integrating or delivering biodiversity data that is incomplete or may not make taxonomic sense. As a globally comprehensive and expert-mediated taxonomic resource, the Catalogue of Life is well-positioned to provide the underlying data and services to address these challenges and support a broad community of stakeholders. With financial support from the Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility, the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture as well as technical support from GBIF, CoL+ represents an effort to stabilize the Catalogue of Life checklist products and refine a roadmap for future services -services that must be informed by the needs of users. The COL+ initiative provides an opportunity to document and understand the requirements of both Col current users and a wider future user base. Key to any expansion is ensuring a clear understanding and the appropriate response to user needs. This includes not only the requirements of "taxonomic data consumer" stakeholders, such as those listed above, but also the needs and motivations of the expert taxonomic community behind the current and future Catalogue of Life. This session will focus on reviewing the user requirements of a diverse community of both taxonomic data producers and consumers and organizing these stories into a set of categories from which we will identify clear and useful tools and services. These will establish the basis for a compelling roadmap for the Catalogue of Life as an enabling foundation to an interlinked and global biodiversity data infrastructure.

scholarly journals The Natural History Museum Data Portal

Database ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Scott ◽  
Ed Baker ◽  
Matt Woodburn ◽  
Sarah Vincent ◽  
Helen Hardy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Museum Data ◽  
Data Portal

scholarly journals Ecological interactions in the Scratchpads virtual research environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Baker ◽  
Steen Dupont ◽  
Vincent Smith
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Virtual Research Environment ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
Lepidopteran Host

The Natural History Museum, London has a number of online databases that describe interactions between species, including the HOSTS database of lepidopteran host plants (Robinson et al. 2010) and a database of Dipterocarp Seed Predators. These databases were generally bespoke software, which has increased the technical work necessary to sustain these resources. The decision was taken to migrate these to either the Scratchpads Virtual Research Environment (VRE) (Smith et al. 2011) or to the museum's Data Portal (Scott et al. 2019), depending on the complexity of the existing resource, as both are being sustained by the Informatics Group at the Natural History Museum, London. Resources that can be best represented as a single table were moved to the Data Portal, while those best represented in a relational model were transferred to Scratchpads. In addition, the Phthiraptera.info Scratchpad (Smith and Broom 2019), which already contained ecological interaction data, was migrated to the new system. This paper describes the implementation within the Scratchpads VRE of a new ecological interactions module that is capable of handling the needs of these projects, while at the same time is flexible to handle the needs of future projects with different data sources.

scholarly journals Data integration enables global biodiversity synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. e2018093118
Author(s):  
J. Mason Heberling ◽  
Joseph T. Miller ◽  
Daniel Noesgaard ◽  
Scott B. Weingart ◽  
Dmitry Schigel
Keyword(s):  
Data Integration ◽  
Species Interactions ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Biodiversity Information ◽  
Global Data

The accessibility of global biodiversity information has surged in the past two decades, notably through widespread funding initiatives for museum specimen digitization and emergence of large-scale public participation in community science. Effective use of these data requires the integration of disconnected datasets, but the scientific impacts of consolidated biodiversity data networks have not yet been quantified. To determine whether data integration enables novel research, we carried out a quantitative text analysis and bibliographic synthesis of >4,000 studies published from 2003 to 2019 that use data mediated by the world’s largest biodiversity data network, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Data available through GBIF increased 12-fold since 2007, a trend matched by global data use with roughly two publications using GBIF-mediated data per day in 2019. Data-use patterns were diverse by authorship, geographic extent, taxonomic group, and dataset type. Despite facilitating global authorship, legacies of colonial science remain. Studies involving species distribution modeling were most prevalent (31% of literature surveyed) but recently shifted in focus from theory to application. Topic prevalence was stable across the 17-y period for some research areas (e.g., macroecology), yet other topics proportionately declined (e.g., taxonomy) or increased (e.g., species interactions, disease). Although centered on biological subfields, GBIF-enabled research extends surprisingly across all major scientific disciplines. Biodiversity data mobilization through global data aggregation has enabled basic and applied research use at temporal, spatial, and taxonomic scales otherwise not possible, launching biodiversity sciences into a new era.

scholarly journals Harvestmen occurrence database (Arachnida, Opiliones) of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria da Silva ◽  
Manoel Aguiar-Neto ◽  
Dan Teixeira ◽  
Cleverson Santos ◽  
Marcos de Sousa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Consultation ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
The Government ◽  
Biodiversity Information ◽  
Brazilian Biodiversity

We present a dataset with information from the Opiliones collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Northern Brazil. This collection currently has 6,400 specimens distributed in 13 families, 30 genera and 32 species and holotypes of four species: Imeri ajuba Coronato-Ribeiro, Pinto-da-Rocha & Rheims, 2013, Phareicranaus patauateua Pinto-da-Rocha & Bonaldo, 2011, Protimesius trocaraincola Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997 and Sickesia tremembe Pinto-da-Rocha & Carvalho, 2009. The material of the collection is exclusive from Brazil, mostly from the Amazon Region. The dataset is now available for public consultation on the Sistema de Informação sobre a Biodiversidade Brasileira (SiBBr) (https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/goeldi/resource?r=museuparaenseemiliogoeldi-collection-aracnologiaopiliones). SiBBr is the Brazilian Biodiversity Information System, an initiative of the government and the Brazilian node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), which aims to consolidate and make primary biodiversity data available on a platform (Dias et al. 2017). Harvestmen or Opiliones constitute the third largest arachnid order, with approximately 6,500 described species. Brazil is the holder of the greatest diversity in the world, with more than 1,000 described species, 95% (960 species) of which are endemic to the country. Of these, 32 species were identified and deposited in the collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.

scholarly journals The Living Atlases community in action: the NBN Atlas Spatial Portal and “Explore Your Region” module

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e25486
Author(s):  
Nick dos Remedios ◽  
Marie-Elise Lecoq ◽  
David Martin ◽  
Sophia Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) (https://www.ala.org.au/) is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) node of Australia. Since 2010, they have developed and improved a platform for sharing and exploring biodiversity information. All the modules are publicly available for reuse and customization on their GitHub account (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia). The National Biodiversity Network, a registered charity, is the UK GBIF node and has been sharing biodiversity data since 2000. They published more than 79 million occurrences from 818 datasets. In 2016, they launched the NBN Atlas Scotland (https://scotland.nbnatlas.org/) based on the Atlas of Living Australia infrastructure. Since then, they released the NBN Atlas (https://nbnatlas.org/), the NBN Atlas Wales (https://wales.nbnatlas.org/) and soon the NBN Atlas Isle of Man. In addition to the occurrence/species search engine and the metadata registry, they put in place several tools that help users to work with data published in the network: the spatial portal and "explore your region" module. Both elements are based on Atlas of Living Australia developments. Because the Atlas of Living Australia platform is really powerful an reusable, we want to show you these two applications used to make geographical analyses. In order to perform this, we will present you the specificities of each component by giving examples of some functionalities.

BiGe-Onto: An ontology-based system for managing biodiversity and biogeography data1

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Zárate ◽  
Germán Braun ◽  
Pablo Fillottrani ◽  
Claudio Delrieux ◽  
Mirtha Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Data Sources ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Sparql Endpoint ◽  
Darwin Core ◽  
Metadata Standards ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Research Domains ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Great progress to digitize the world’s available Biodiversity and Biogeography data have been made recently, but managing data from many different providers and research domains still remains a challenge. A review of the current landscape of metadata standards and ontologies in Biodiversity sciences suggests that existing standards, such as the Darwin Core terminology, are inadequate for describing Biodiversity data in a semantically meaningful and computationally useful way. As a contribution to fill this gap, we present an ontology-based system, called BiGe-Onto, designed to manage data together from Biodiversity and Biogeography. As data sources, we use two internationally recognized repositories: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). BiGe-Onto system is composed of (i) BiGe-Onto Architecture (ii) a conceptual model called BiGe-Onto specified in OntoUML, (iii) an operational version of BiGe-Onto encoded in OWL 2, and (iv) an integrated dataset for its exploitation through a SPARQL endpoint. We will show use cases that allow researchers to answer questions that manage information from both domains.

scholarly journals The Living Atlases Community: Communication and documentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Elise Lecoq ◽  
Vicente Ruiz Jurado
Keyword(s):  
End Users ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Technical Documentation ◽  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Network Nodes ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
One Year ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Managers and developers from organizations within the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) network nodes using the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) modules have created the Living Atlases (LA) community. Since the beginning, two of our priorities have been the technical guides and communication inside and outside our network. A community can not be sustainable without useful technical documentation, as members must work by themselves as much as possible. Without communication, a community cannot grow either. More than one year ago, the Living Atlases community hired a technical coordinator, Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado. With the help of other participants, he greatly improved our technical documentation with the Living Atlas Quick Start Guide and increased communication with remote support sessions. The helpdesk, through the use of the LA Slack channel, has been improved as well. We have also increased our visibility on the Internet with our website and our Twitter account. Over the last few years, we have focused our work on end-users, with dedicated workshops, including exercises made by participants for their users and two videos showing how a Living Atlas works (How to search and download biodiversity data in an Atlas and How to use regions/spatial module in an Atlas).

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