A method to establish and revise descriptive data sets over the Internet

Hagedorn, Gregor; Rambold, Gerhard

doi:10.2307/1224347

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“…Their goal is to make a range of databases on biodiversity available to researchers and policymakers. Numerous other smaller-scale projects demonstrate the utility of Web-based taxonomic tools (Hagerdorn & Rambold 2000;Kendall et al 2000;Kang et al 2002;Struder-Kypke & Montagnes 2002). The Tree of Life (http://www.gbif.org/), Treebase (http://www.treebase.…”

Section: Taxonomy and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

A taxonomic wish–list for community ecology

Gotelli¹

2004

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

131

109

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Community ecology seeks to explain the number and relative abundance of coexisting species. Four research frontiers in community ecology are closely tied to research in systematics and taxonomy: the statistics of species richness estimators, global patterns of biodiversity, the influence of global climate change on community structure, and phylogenetic influences on community structure. The most pressing needs for taxonomic information in community ecology research are usable taxonomic keys, current nomenclature, species occurrence records and resolved phylogenies. These products can best be obtained from Internet-based phylogenetic and taxonomic resources, but the lack of trained professional systematists and taxonomists threatens this effort. Community ecologists will benefit most directly from research in systematics and taxonomy by making better use of resources in museums and herbaria, and by actively seeking training, information and collaborations with taxonomic specialists.

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Section: Taxonomy and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

A taxonomic wish–list for community ecology

Gotelli¹

2004

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

131

109

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“…In 1997, an important technical step forward was achieved when genus data were trans ferred in the relational MS Access database DeltaAccess (now DiversityDescriptions), com bining the advantages of DELTA and a relational database system (Hagedorn 2001a). For generating HTML data entry forms for browser-based data input, specific report functions were implemented (Hagedorn and Rambold 2000). Apart from the two Web interfaces DeltaAccess Perl Script (DAP) and DeltaAccess Web Interface (DAWI) (both as beta ver sions), taxon subset-specific initialization files on the Web server were installed for usage with Intkey as an auxiliary application.…”

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Biodiversity Databases

Curry¹,

Humphries²

2016

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“…Several applications are available for storing structured taxon-based character data in order to generate identification keys and natural language descriptions, and to aggregate them from lower to higher taxa. Starting with the DELTA (DEscription Language for Taxonomy) ( 24 ) system ( 2 ) as the pioneer, others followed such as Lucid ( 25 ), Delta Access ( 26 ) and Xper2 ( 27 ). With the development of the XML-based SDD (Structure of Descriptive Data) standard ( 28 ), data in the DELTA and Nexus ( 29 ) standards ( 30 ) are becoming fully exchangeable, SDD compliance provided.…”

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Sample data processing in an additive and reproducible taxonomic workflow by using character data persistently linked to preserved individual specimens

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We present the model and implementation of a workflow that blazes a trail in systematic biology for the re-usability of character data (data on any kind of characters of pheno- and genotypes of organisms) and their additivity from specimen to taxon level. We take into account that any taxon characterization is based on a limited set of sampled individuals and characters, and that consequently any new individual and any new character may affect the recognition of biological entities and/or the subsequent delimitation and characterization of a taxon. Taxon concepts thus frequently change during the knowledge generation process in systematic biology. Structured character data are therefore not only needed for the knowledge generation process but also for easily adapting characterizations of taxa. We aim to facilitate the construction and reproducibility of taxon characterizations from structured character data of changing sample sets by establishing a stable and unambiguous association between each sampled individual and the data processed from it. Our workflow implementation uses the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy Platform, a comprehensive taxonomic data management and publication environment to: (i) establish a reproducible connection between sampled individuals and all samples derived from them; (ii) stably link sample-based character data with the metadata of the respective samples; (iii) record and store structured specimen-based character data in formats allowing data exchange; (iv) reversibly assign sample metadata and character datasets to taxa in an editable classification and display them and (v) organize data exchange via standard exchange formats and enable the link between the character datasets and samples in research collections, ensuring high visibility and instant re-usability of the data. The workflow implemented will contribute to organizing the interface between phylogenetic analysis and revisionary taxonomic or monographic work.Database URL: http://campanula.e-taxonomy.net/

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A method to establish and revise descriptive data sets over the Internet

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

A taxonomic wish–list for community ecology

A taxonomic wish–list for community ecology

Biodiversity Databases

Sample data processing in an additive and reproducible taxonomic workflow by using character data persistently linked to preserved individual specimens

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