A5005335701- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Research Data Management Practices
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Library Science and Information Systems
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Photography and Visual Culture
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
- Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Botanical Studies and Applications
Vanderbilt University
2014-2025
Atlas of Living Australia
2023
Cornell University
2023
Yale University
2023
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
2023
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
2023
University of Massachusetts Boston
2023
Boston University
2023
Institute of Natural Sciences
2023
Texas Tech University
2022
The study of biodiversity spans many disciplines and includes data pertaining to species distributions abundances, genetic sequences, trait measurements, ecological niches, complemented by information on collection measurement protocols. A review the current landscape metadata standards ontologies in science suggests that existing such as Darwin Core terminology are inadequate for describing a semantically meaningful computationally useful way. Existing ontologies, Gene Ontology others Open...
To improve the suitability of Darwin Core standard for research and management alien species, needs to express native status organisms, how well established they are came occupy a location. facilitate this, we propose: 1. adopt controlled vocabulary existing term dwc:establishmentMeans 2. elevate pathway from Invasive Species Pathways extension become new dwc:pathway maintained as part 3. dwc:degreeOfEstablishment with an associated These changes will allow users clearly state whether...
Abstract Camera trapping has revolutionized wildlife ecology and conservation by providing automated data acquisition, leading to the accumulation of massive amounts camera trap worldwide. Although management processing trap‐derived Big Data are becoming increasingly solvable with help scalable cyber‐infrastructures, harmonization exchange remain limited, hindering its full potential. There is currently no widely accepted standard for exchanging data. The only existing proposal, “Camera Trap...
Abstract Introduction H‐index is a widely used metric quantifying researcher's productivity and impact based on an author's publications citations. Though convenient to calculate, h‐index fails incorporate collaborations interrelationships between physicians into its assessment of academic impact, leading limited insight grouped networks. We present social network analysis as tool measure relationships quantify their impact. Methods A bibliometric multicenter was conducted physician faculty...
Darwin-SW (DSW) is an RDF vocabulary designed to complement the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Darwin Core Standard. DSW based on a model derived from community discussion about relationships among main classes. creates new class accommodate important aspect of its that not currently part Core: Tokens, which are forms evidence. uses Web Ontology Language (OWL) make assertions classes in and define object properties used link instances those A goal creation was facilitate...
Mortality data from the literature on southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella Dyar, were analyzed to determine which factors have most impact populations of this insect. Adult mortality, presumed occur primarily as a result dispersal, appears been largest source well key factor in annual variance mortality. Nonpredation mortality during diapause was also an important factor. Of density-dependent factors, predation by flicker, Colaptes aruaus (L.) be that limits size overwintering...
For the last 15 years, Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) has recognized two competing standards for organism occurrence data, ABCD (Access to Biological Collections Data; Holetschek et al. 2012) and DarwinCore (Wieczorek 2012). These representations emerged from contrasting strategies mobilizing information about occurrences (also commonly called species data). was capable of representing details more kinds information, but necessarily complicated. DarwinCore, on other hand, simpler...
Abstract WikiProject Clinical Trials is a Wikidata community project to integrate clinical trials metadata with the Wikipedia ecosystem. Using methods for data modeling, import, querying, curating, and profiling, brought ClinicalTrials.gov records into enriched them. The motivation was gaining benefits of hosting in Wikidata, which include distribution new audiences staging content Wikimedia editor develop it further. Project pages present options engaging environment. Example applications...
The Darwin Core vocabulary is widely used to transmit biodiversity data in the form of simple text files. In order support expression Resource Description Framework (RDF), a guide was created as non-normative addition standard. This paper describe s major issues that were addressed creation guide, particularly problems related adapting terms designed have literal values for use with IRI references. By making it possible express millions existing records RDF, an important step towards...
- Kinds of occurrences (evidence particular living organisms) can be grouped by common data and metadata characteristics that are determined the way occurrence represents organism. The creation resources follows a pattern which used as basis for organizing both associated with those relationships among resources. central feature this organizational system is resource representing individual This serves node connects organism's any determinations taxonomic identity. I specify relatively small...
Knowledge graphs have the potential to unite disconnected digitized biodiversity data, and there are a number of efforts underway build knowledge graphs. More generally, recent popularity graphs, driven in part by advent success Google Graph, has breathed life into ongoing development semantic web infrastructure prototypes informatics community. We describe one week training event hackathon that focused on applying three specific graph technologies – Neptune database; Metaphactory; Wikidata...
Camera trapping has revolutionized wildlife ecology and conservation by providing automated data acquisition, leading to the accumulation of massive amounts camera trap worldwide. Although management processing trap-derived Big Data are becoming increasingly solvable with help scalable cyber-infrastructures, harmonization exchange remain limited, hindering its full potential. We present a new format, Trap Package (Camtrap DP), designed allow users easily exchange, harmonize archive at local...
Evolutionary and ecological factors were used to assess the likelihood that low winter temperatures limit range of Diatraea grandiosella Dyar (southwestern corn borer) in east central United States. In controlled low-temperature mortality trials, dry diapausing laboratory-reared larvae exposed for 2 d constant temperatures, ranging from −6.9 −10.0°C. Mortality originating Indiana at northern edge was not significantly different Mississippi, over 500 km south. However, these populations had...
Digitisation and publication of museum specimen data is happening worldwide, but far from complete. Museums can start by sharing what they know about their holdings at a higher level, long before each object has its own record. Information held in collections worldwide needed many stakeholders including managers, funders, researchers, policy-makers, industry, educators. To aggregate this information collections, the need to be standardised (Johnston Robinson 2002). So, Biodiversity Standards...
The W3C Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web Recommendation provides a mechanism for mapping CSV-formatted data to any graph model. Since Wikibase model used by Wikidata can be expressed as RDF, this document tabular snapshots of parts knowledge in simple form that is easy humans and applications read. Those how subgraphs have changed over time compared with current state using its Query Service detect vandalism value added through community contributions.
Invasive species are a global problem for conservation, economics and health. Information on their distribution, spread impact essential to inform national international policy biodiversity. Furthermore, demand these data only likely increase as recent environmental change results in the widespread reconfiguring of distributions. Researchers managers invasive require certain elements from observations inventories species, such as, how organism was brought location, well established it is...
Access to high-quality ecological data is pivotal assessing and modeling biodiversity its change through space time. Inventory (i.e., recording multiple species at specific places times) are particularly relevant monitoring distributions abundance, but their reliability for use in downstream models depends on reporting the methodology implemented associated sampling effort completeness. This information about inventory processes often either not reported or described an unstructured manner,...
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Material Sample Task Group*1 kicked off in the third quarter of 2021. group’s initial focus was to 1) achieve a clear conceptual delineation between terms MaterialSample , PreservedSpecimen LivingSpecimen and FossilSpecimen (the used basisOfRecord current DwC-A provided Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) for describing physical material) 2) define relationship these term Organism 3) consider possible implications activities towards...