Making small data big:The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)

Lyubomir D. Penev1,3, Teodor A. Georgiev3, Pavel E. Stoev2,3, David M. Roberts4 & Vincent S. Smith4

ViBRANTpensoft.net/journals/bdj

1 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgaria2 National Natural History Museum, Bulgaria

3 Pensoft Publishers4 The Natural History Museum, UK

19th International Congress of Arachnology (ICA 2013) Kenting National Park, Taiwan; June 23-28, 2013

Primary data

Drawings: slavenapeneva.com

Primary data

Publishing and sharing of primary data

RE-USEof

CONTENT

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open data increases transparency and the overall quality of science published data can be verified by other researchers it can be integrated with other datasets it increases the potential for interdisciplinary research duplication of data-collecting efforts and associated costs will be reduced published data can be indexed and made discoverable

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Incentives for authors and institutions to publish data

Key features

Biological Codes compliant article templatesNo lower/upper limit of manuscript sizeSemantically enhanced “articles of the future”Integrated with GBIF, EOL, Dryad, Scratchpads, etc.

ALL DATA MATTERS!

Manuscripts are automatically formatted during the writing process

Avoids layout stage, decreases costs and efforts!

Automated registrationMANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED

XML Response

ARTICLEPUBLISHED

Taxon name available/valid (effectively published)

XML article metadata

XML Query

Peer review

Automated import of treatments from Scratchpads and author’s own databases

No installation!Just register and go!

NO Author Guidelines!The tool guides you!

Choose article template

Authors can choose the review type

Add author

Taxon treatment: new species

Taxon treatment: import material data

Taxon treatment: upload of images

Key preview

Life cycle of data published in the BDJ

BIODIVERSITYMANUSCRIPT

Occurrence data Genome dada

Image galleries

Morphometric data

Environmental data

Phylogenetic data

Any other data

XML MARK UP

Structured text (data!)

ARTICLESOccurrence

dataTaxon namesTaxon treatments

Plazi

BHL

Wiki COL

Biblio-graphies

Thank you for listening!

ViBRANT

Lyubomir Penev

Vince Smith

Dave Roberts

Teodor Georgiev

19th International Congress of Arachnology (ICA 2013) Kenting National Park, Taiwan; June 23-28, 2013

We Open Access!