GBIF ideas

http://iphylo.blogspot.dk/2013/10/what-can-global-biodiversity.html

Coverage

BioStor

Coverage

• How representative is data? How to show this?

• Adding other sources of data (e.g., literature)

• Adding data is cumbersome (can’t do it directly)

Quality

Mormopterus petrophilus and Sauromys petrophilus

Quality

• Errors and duplicates

• Need measure of reliability

• Ability to flag and fix (make editable)

• [need stable occurrence ids]

Annotation/correction

Annotations

• Need stable occurrence ids

• Annotate, edit, fix data (github?)

• DOIs for data (and data versions)

• DOIs link to ORCID, automatic credit

Names

LSIDsRDF

Triple storeOr Semantic Wiki

Names

• Use nomenclators as source of names

• Checklists/classifications map nodes to names

• Create central list of names (triple store/wiki)

New data

Coverage

Coverage

New data

• Treat GenBank as another DWCA source

• Phylogeny and phylogeography

• Visualising phylogenetic/genomic diversity