gbif ideas
DESCRIPTION
Slides from an informal talk about possible topics for GBIFTRANSCRIPT
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