Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives.
alignment
biodiversity informatics
community
coordination
data visualisation
methods
Journal
Biodiversity data journal
ISSN: 1314-2828
Titre abrégé: Biodivers Data J
Pays: Bulgaria
ID NLM: 101619899
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
01
03
2022
accepted:
06
08
2022
entrez:
10
2
2023
pubmed:
11
2
2023
medline:
11
2
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The landscape of biodiversity data infrastructures and organisations is complex and fragmented. Many occupy specialised niches representing narrow segments of the multidimensional biodiversity informatics space, while others operate across a broad front, but differ from others by data type(s) handled, their geographic scope and the life cycle phase(s) of the data they support. In an effort to characterise the various dimensions of the biodiversity informatics landscape, we developed a framework and dataset to survey these dimensions for ten organisations (DiSSCo, GBIF, iBOL, Catalogue of Life, iNaturalist, Biodiversity Heritage Library, GeoCASe, LifeWatch, eLTER ELIXIR), relative to both their current activities and long-term strategic ambitions. The survey assessed the contact between the infrastructure organisations by capturing the breadth of activities for each infrastructure across five categories (data, standards, software, hardware and policy), for nine types of data (specimens, collection descriptions, opportunistic observations, systematic observations, taxonomies, traits, geological data, molecular data and literature) and for seven phases of activity (creation, aggregation, access, annotation, interlinkage, analysis and synthesis). This generated a dataset of 6,300 verified observations, which have been scored and validated by leading members of each infrastructure organisation. The resulting data allow high-level questions about the overall biodiversity informatics landscape to be addressed, including the greatest gaps and contact between organisations.
Sections du résumé
Background
UNASSIGNED
The landscape of biodiversity data infrastructures and organisations is complex and fragmented. Many occupy specialised niches representing narrow segments of the multidimensional biodiversity informatics space, while others operate across a broad front, but differ from others by data type(s) handled, their geographic scope and the life cycle phase(s) of the data they support. In an effort to characterise the various dimensions of the biodiversity informatics landscape, we developed a framework and dataset to survey these dimensions for ten organisations (DiSSCo, GBIF, iBOL, Catalogue of Life, iNaturalist, Biodiversity Heritage Library, GeoCASe, LifeWatch, eLTER ELIXIR), relative to both their current activities and long-term strategic ambitions.
New information
UNASSIGNED
The survey assessed the contact between the infrastructure organisations by capturing the breadth of activities for each infrastructure across five categories (data, standards, software, hardware and policy), for nine types of data (specimens, collection descriptions, opportunistic observations, systematic observations, taxonomies, traits, geological data, molecular data and literature) and for seven phases of activity (creation, aggregation, access, annotation, interlinkage, analysis and synthesis). This generated a dataset of 6,300 verified observations, which have been scored and validated by leading members of each infrastructure organisation. The resulting data allow high-level questions about the overall biodiversity informatics landscape to be addressed, including the greatest gaps and contact between organisations.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36761622
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e82953
pii: 82953
pmc: PMC9848541
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e82953Informations de copyright
Vincent Stuart Smith, Lisa French, Sarah Vincent, Matt Woodburn, Wouter Addink, Christos Arvanitidis, Olaf Bánki, Ana Casino, Francois Dusoulier, Falko Glöckler, Donald Hobern, Martin R. Kalfatovic, Dimitrios Koureas, Patricia Mergen, Joe Miller, Leif Schulman, Aino Juslén.
Références
Sci Data. 2021 May 25;8(1):137
pubmed: 34035315