Biodiversity informatics: digitising the living world

Biodiversity informatics:Digitising the living world

@rdmpage

http://iphylo.blogspot.com

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695

GBIF.org 500 million records

Specimens recorded from “USA”

441,023 data points in Kenya…

None of the data about Kenya comes from Kenya

iNaturalist

EOL photos in Flickr

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92668

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695

Taxonomy

Names of animals must be:

published

Names of animals must be:

unique

Simples

O Lambert et al. Nature 466, 105-108 (2010) doi:10.1038/nature09067

Skull, mandible and tooth morphology of the holotype of L. melvillei MUSM 1676.

Leviathan melvillei

Bugger…

Livyatan melvillei

Two kinds of #fail

We don’t have a list of all names

Publications containing names often not accessible

Leviathan melvillei

If it’s not online it doesn’t exist

@BioDivLibrary

45 million pages, all Open Access

Problems with Biodiversity Heritage

Library (BHL)

• emphasises “old” stuff (pre-1923)

• unit is scanned book, not scientific article

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6162/6176297334_48b2dc550a_z.jpg

100,000 articles from http://biostor.org (BHL)

1923 today

Numbers of new animal names

1923

WWI WWII

PMID:948206

http://biostor.org/reference/102054

http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/215921922/

BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases

http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bhl-and-gbif-as-biomedical-databases.html

Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

MESH term

Impact of

collection

In an attempt to live up to that increasing demand for documentation, the leadership of the Natural History Museum of Denmark has issued an order to its curatorial staff - The staff members are requested to document which publications from 2011, written entirely by external scientists, that in one way or another are based on material in the collections of the Museum.

http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen@TAXACOM

https://twitter.com/#!/search/10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0036881

https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176

https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176

http://www.museum-analytics.org/

Cited, linkable specimens

NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Herpetology Collections

11194

CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog

MCZ Herpetology Collection

Herpetology Collection (University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center)

9619

6720

5818

http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695

How do we build this?