A checklist recipe: making species data open and FAIR.
Journal
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
ISSN: 1758-0463
Titre abrégé: Database (Oxford)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101517697
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 01 2020
01 01 2020
Historique:
received:
03
06
2020
revised:
18
08
2020
accepted:
08
09
2020
entrez:
12
11
2020
pubmed:
13
11
2020
medline:
29
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Species checklists are a crucial source of information for research and policy. Unfortunately, many traditional species checklists vary wildly in their content, format, availability and maintenance. The fact that these are not open, findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) severely hampers fast and efficient information flow to policy and decision-making that are required to tackle the current biodiversity crisis. Here, we propose a reproducible, semi-automated workflow to transform traditional checklist data into a FAIR and open species registry. We showcase our workflow by applying it to the publication of the Manual of Alien Plants, a species checklist specifically developed for the Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS) project. Our approach combines source data management, reproducible data transformation to Darwin Core using R, version control, data documentation and publication to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This checklist publication workflow is openly available for data holders and applicable to species registries varying in thematic, taxonomic or geographical scope and could serve as an important tool to open up research and strengthen environmental decision-making.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33181821
pii: 5979745
doi: 10.1093/database/baaa084
pmc: PMC7661093
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press.
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