BioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics

Background: Linking together the data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) requires services that can mint, resolve, and discover globally unique identifiers (including, but not limited to, DOIs, HTTP URIs, and LSIDs). Results: BioGUID implements a range of services, the core ones being an OpenURL resolver for bibliographic resources, and a LSID resolver. The LSID resolver supports Linked Data-friendly resolution using HTTP 303 redirects and content negotiation. Additional services include journal ISSN look-up, author name matching, and a tool to monitor the status of biodiversity data providers. Conclusion: BioGUID is available at http://bioguid.info/. Source code is available from http://code.google.com/p/bioguid/

A global perspective on decadal challenges and priorities in biodiversity informatics

Biodiversity informatics is a field that is growing rapidly in data infrastructure, tools, and participation by researchers worldwide from diverse disciplines and with diverse, innovative approaches. A recent ‘decadal view’ of the field laid out a vision that was nonetheless restricted and constrained by its European focus. Our alternative decadal view is global, i.e., it sees the worldwide scope and importance of biodiversity informatics as addressing five major, global goals: (1) mobilize existing knowledge; (2) share this knowledge and the experience of its myriad deployments globally; (3) avoid ‘siloing’ and reinventing the tools of knowledge deployment; (4) tackle biodiversity informatics challenges at appropriate scales; and (5) seek solutions to difficult challenges that are strategic

LSID Tester, a tool for testing Life Science Identifier resolution services

BackgroundLife Science Identifiers (LSIDs) are persistent, globally unique identifiers for biological objects. The decentralised nature of LSIDs makes them attractive for identifying distributed resources. Data of interest to biodiversity researchers (including specimen records, images, taxonomic names, and DNA sequences) are distributed over many different providers, and this community has adopted LSIDs as the identifier of choice

LSID Tester, a tool for testing Life Science Identifier resolution services-0

15.<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "LSID Tester, a tool for testing Life Science Identifier resolution services"</p><p>http://www.scfbm.org/content/3/1/2</p><p>Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2008;3():2-2.</p><p>Published online 18 Feb 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2276318.</p><p></p

Calidad de Datos. Guía de herramientas para mejorar los datos primarios de biodiversidad

Este documento es una recopilación de las diversas herramientas y prácticas que intentan facilitar el proceso de dar calidad a los datos primarios sobre biodiversidad a través de distintas metodologías. Se espera que este texto sirva como base para optimizar los procesos alrededor de la estandarización de datos biodiversidad, empleando como base el estándar Darwin Core establecido por el Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)N/ABogotá, ColombiaN/