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Escribano, Nora; Galicia, David; Ariño, Arturo H Game of Tops: Trends in GBIF’s Community of Users Journal Article Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3 , pp. e37187, 2019. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: biodiversity, community structure, data users, GBIF, research trends @article{10.3897/biss.3.37187, title = {Game of Tops: Trends in GBIF’s Community of Users}, author = {Nora Escribano and David Galicia and Arturo H Ariño}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37187}, doi = {10.3897/biss.3.37187}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-01-01}, journal = {Biodiversity Information Science and Standards}, volume = {3}, pages = {e37187}, publisher = {Pensoft Publishers}, abstract = {Building on the development of Biodiversity Informatics, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) undertook the task of enabling access to the world’s wealth of biodiversity data via the Internet. To date, GBIF has become, in many respects, the most extensive biodiversity information exchange infrastructure in the world, opening up a full range of possibilities for science. Science has benefited from such access to biodiversity data in research areas ranging from the effects of environmental change on biodiversity to the spread of invasive species, among many others. As of this writing, more than 7,000 published items (scientific papers, reviews, conference proceedings) have been indexed in the GBIF Secretariat’s literature tracking programme. On the basis on this database, we will represent trends in GBIF in the users’ behaviour over time regarding openness, social structure, and other features associated to such scientific production: what is the measurable impact of research using GBIF data? How is the GBIF community of users growing? Is the science made with, and enabled by, open data, actually open? Mapping GBIF users’ choices will show how biodiversity research is evolving through time, synthesising past and current priorities of this community in an attempt to forecast whether summer—or winter—is coming.}, keywords = {biodiversity, community structure, data users, GBIF, research trends}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Building on the development of Biodiversity Informatics, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) undertook the task of enabling access to the world’s wealth of biodiversity data via the Internet. To date, GBIF has become, in many respects, the most extensive biodiversity information exchange infrastructure in the world, opening up a full range of possibilities for science. Science has benefited from such access to biodiversity data in research areas ranging from the effects of environmental change on biodiversity to the spread of invasive species, among many others. As of this writing, more than 7,000 published items (scientific papers, reviews, conference proceedings) have been indexed in the GBIF Secretariat’s literature tracking programme. On the basis on this database, we will represent trends in GBIF in the users’ behaviour over time regarding openness, social structure, and other features associated to such scientific production: what is the measurable impact of research using GBIF data? How is the GBIF community of users growing? Is the science made with, and enabled by, open data, actually open? Mapping GBIF users’ choices will show how biodiversity research is evolving through time, synthesising past and current priorities of this community in an attempt to forecast whether summer—or winter—is coming. |
Huybrechts, Pieter; Alonso-Sánchez, Felix; Böttinger, Petra; Dillen, Mathias; Groom, Quentin; Hanquart, Nicole; Koch, Walter; Gordon, Martin; Mergen, Patricia LinBi: Linking biodiversity and culture information Journal Article Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 3 , pp. e37407, 2019. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: biodiversity, citizen science, crowdsourcing, digital heritage, Europeana, metadata enrichment @article{10.3897/biss.3.37407, title = {LinBi: Linking biodiversity and culture information}, author = {Pieter Huybrechts and Felix Alonso-Sánchez and Petra Böttinger and Mathias Dillen and Quentin Groom and Nicole Hanquart and Walter Koch and Martin Gordon and Patricia Mergen}, url = {https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37407}, doi = {10.3897/biss.3.37407}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-01-01}, journal = {Biodiversity Information Science and Standards}, volume = {3}, pages = {e37407}, publisher = {Pensoft Publishers}, abstract = {The LinBi project aims to enhance the discoverability of digitized objects from natural history collections hosted by institutes all over Europe. This enhancement is achieved by publishing new and enriched content to the Europeana collections platform. The use of simple vocabularies and machine-readable metadata encourages reuse and has the additional advantage of facilitating the clustering of interesting content for user groups beyond biodiversity and natural history researchers. Linking the collections of Europe together in an openly-available platform and sharing our common cultural and natural heritage with a broad audience will increase the public’s awareness of biodiversity collections. Furthermore, it will help us reach out to new user groups such as teachers, journalists and artists, who were previously unaware of, or distant from, our collections. Suitable content was selected and harmonized for interlinking with Europeana. Contributions include a large quantity of herbarium sheets, digitized glass plate negatives taken between 1880 and 1930 and a portrait collection dating from the late 19th and early 20th century. With the help of the DoeDat crowdsourcing platform, existing metadata were enriched and mobilized to allow for publication in the form of open linked data. The integration of geographical data and common names allows the Europeana platform to link scientific specimens with literature and fine art from different collections and to guide users to interesting and inspiring content via themed virtual exhibitions. One such theme is composed of content from the "Wild Roses of Crépin" collection, which will be enriched by pictures of living plants, herbarium specimens and illustrations old and modern. A second content cluster consists of an enriched and curated collection of botanical illustrations originating from a corpus of special and rare books ranging from the 15th to 19th centuries. Careful curation increases the potential for re-use and provides additional oppertunities for the general public to interact with this collection. The LinBi platform has the long-term ambition of forming a sustainable and open source solution integrated into the Europeana Core Service. This will further improve cooperation between institutes by building international infrastructure and networks, thus contributing to a more open cross-border society.}, keywords = {biodiversity, citizen science, crowdsourcing, digital heritage, Europeana, metadata enrichment}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } The LinBi project aims to enhance the discoverability of digitized objects from natural history collections hosted by institutes all over Europe. This enhancement is achieved by publishing new and enriched content to the Europeana collections platform. The use of simple vocabularies and machine-readable metadata encourages reuse and has the additional advantage of facilitating the clustering of interesting content for user groups beyond biodiversity and natural history researchers. Linking the collections of Europe together in an openly-available platform and sharing our common cultural and natural heritage with a broad audience will increase the public’s awareness of biodiversity collections. Furthermore, it will help us reach out to new user groups such as teachers, journalists and artists, who were previously unaware of, or distant from, our collections. Suitable content was selected and harmonized for interlinking with Europeana. Contributions include a large quantity of herbarium sheets, digitized glass plate negatives taken between 1880 and 1930 and a portrait collection dating from the late 19th and early 20th century. With the help of the DoeDat crowdsourcing platform, existing metadata were enriched and mobilized to allow for publication in the form of open linked data. The integration of geographical data and common names allows the Europeana platform to link scientific specimens with literature and fine art from different collections and to guide users to interesting and inspiring content via themed virtual exhibitions. One such theme is composed of content from the "Wild Roses of Crépin" collection, which will be enriched by pictures of living plants, herbarium specimens and illustrations old and modern. A second content cluster consists of an enriched and curated collection of botanical illustrations originating from a corpus of special and rare books ranging from the 15th to 19th centuries. Careful curation increases the potential for re-use and provides additional oppertunities for the general public to interact with this collection. The LinBi platform has the long-term ambition of forming a sustainable and open source solution integrated into the Europeana Core Service. This will further improve cooperation between institutes by building international infrastructure and networks, thus contributing to a more open cross-border society. |
ResearchGate Link : https://www.researchgate.net/project/MOBILISE-COST-Action-CA17106-Mobilising-Data-Policies-and-Experts-in-Scientific-Collections