A5076712603- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Research Data Management Practices
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Ecology and Conservation Studies
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Offshore Engineering and Technologies
- Diatoms and Algae Research
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Urban Green Space and Health
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
2000-2023
Missouri Botanical Garden
2023
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin
2023
Freie Universität Berlin
2023
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2022
Pensoft Publishers (Bulgaria)
2022
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
2022
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2022
Natural History Museum
2010
University of Reading
1990
With biodiversity research activities being increasingly shifted to the web, need for a system of persistent and stable identifiers physical collection objects becomes pressing. The Consortium European Taxonomic Facilities agreed on common HTTP-URI-based which is now rolled out its member organizations. follows Linked Open Data principles implements redirection mechanisms human-readable machine-readable representations specimens facilitating seamless integration into growing semantic web....
A taxonomic revision of Duboscia (Malvaceae) with two species, D. macrocarpa and viridiflora, is presented used to demonstrate a mechanism for linking from revisions specimens held in herbaria using HTTP URIs. The implementation this at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E) as an example. Advantages approach include near universal support amongst web-connected devices. Hindrances widespread adoption such are also discussed.
Summary Pullan, M. R., Watson, F., Kennedy, J. B., Raguenaud, C. & Hyam, R.: The Prometheus Taxonomic Model: a practical approach to representing multiple classifications. – Taxon 49: 55‐75. 2000. ISSN 0040‐0262. A model for taxonomic data in flexible and dynamic system capable of handling comparing simultaneous classifications is presented. Model takes as its basis the idea that taxon can be circumscribed by specimens or taxa lower rank which are said belong it. In this alternative...
Reliable taxonomy underpins communication in all of biology, not least nature conservation and sustainable use ecosystem resources. The flexibility taxonomic interpretations, however, presents a serious challenge for end-users concepts. Users need standardised continuously harmonised reference systems, as well high-quality complete data sets, but these are generally lacking non-specialists. solution is dynamic, expertly curated web-based tools. Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure...
The psychological restorative effects of exposure to nature are well established and extend just viewing images nature. A previous study has shown that Perceived Naturalness (PN) correlates with their value. This tests whether it is possible detect degree PN using an image classifier. It takes have been scored by humans for (including a subset assessed value) passes them through the Google Vision API classification service. resulting labels assigned broad semantic classes create Calculated...
This reference is for anyone interested in plants and gardening. Over 15,000 entries cover both the scientific common names of flowering plants, ferns conifers - providing a short definition plant origin its name, group or family to which it belongs, geographical distribution, applications medicinal, culinary, industrial, other areas. The dictionary concentrates primarily on northern temperate particularly those grow out doors under Britain, but also includes some better known mosses, algae,...
Natural history collection data available digitally on the web have so far only made limited use of potential semantic links among themselves and with cross-disciplinary resources. In a pilot study, botanical collections Consortium European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) therefore begun to semantically annotate their data, starting people, link them via central index system. As result, it is now possible query collectors across different automatically variety external The system being...
A simple, permanent and reliable specimen identifier system is needed to take the informatics of collections into a new era interoperability. identifiers based on HTTP URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers), endorsed by Consortium European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), has now been rolled out 14 member organisations (Güntsch et al. 2017). CETAF-Identifiers have Linked Open Data redirection mechanism for both human- machine-readable access and, if fully implemented, provide Description Framework...
In 2021, the World Flora Online (WFO) Council agreed that team at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh would take on technical role of managing WFO Taxonomic Backbone (WFO-TB). This presentation outlines implementation a system to manage associated data and explores possible future developments. The WFO-TB is global concensus checklist plants including bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms angiosperms. consists two parts: facts concerning nomenclatural acts establish names under code, consensus...
All scientists will face the challenge of explaining what they do to a friend or relative. Fortunately it is easy for us explain our work. We are building list all known plants. Unfortunately this elicits awkward question: Hasn’t that been done already? Everyone knows Linnaeus started naming convention in 18th century. Surely we would have created species intervening 270 years. Alas, there no single, global list. In 2022, when team at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) took on...
Tens of millions images from biological collections have become available online over the last two decades. In parallel, there has been a dramatic increase in capabilities image analysis technologies, especially those involving machine learning and computer vision. While mainstream consumer applications, it is still used only on an artisanal basis community, largely because corpora are dispersed. Yet, massive untapped potential for novel applications research if collection objects could be...
BACKGROUND : Recent studies have shown an association between vegetation around dwellings and mortality, with mental health as a possible mediator. OBJECTIVES Examine whether there is greenness mortality or the proportion of population being prescribed drugs for anxiety, depression psychosis in urban areas Scotland. METHODS Two maps were prepared based on Landsat 8 Normalised Difference Vegetation Index data from 2013 to 2016, one summer winter. Greenness was sampled these each 91,357...
The World Flora Online (WFO) project (Borsch et al. 2020) was initiated in 2012 response to Target 1 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation*1, "To create an online flora all known plants by 2020" (Wyse Jackson and Kennedy 2009). A WFO Consortium over 40 international institutions has been formed. Public Portal*2 is built upon a taxonomic backbone plant data that integrates International Name Index (IPNI)*3, Checklist Vascular Plants (WCVP)*4, Tropicos*5, Angiosperm Phylogeny Group...
Thousands of new species are discovered each year, and results published to add the knowledge existing species. A growing number these immediately accessible through Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) reused by Global Information Facility (GBIF), bringing treatments covering plant over 25,000 treatments. This includes findable, accessible, interoperable, resuable (FAIR) related figures, in many cases material citation holotype, links collection, specimen gene sequences attribured...