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Setup of BIOfid, a new specialised information service for biodiversity research

  • In order to promote the accessibility of biodiversity data in historic and contemporary literature, we introduce a new interdisciplinary project called BIOfid (FID=Fachinformationsdienst, a service for providing specialized information). The project aims at a mobilization of data available in print only by combining digitization of scientific biodiversity literature with the development of innovative text mining tools for complex, eventually semantic searches throughout the complete text corpus. A major prerequisite for the development of such search tools is the provision of sophisticated anatomy ontologies on the one hand, and of complete lists of species names (currently considered valid as well as all synonyms) at a global scale on the other hand. In the initial stage, we chose examples from German publications of the past 250 years dealing with the geographic distribution and ecology of vascular plants (Tracheophyta), birds (Aves), as well as moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) in Germany. These taxa have been prioritized according to current demands of German research groups (about 50 sites) aiming at analyses and modeling of distribution patterns and their changes through time. In the long term, we aim at providing data and open source software applicable for any taxon and geographic region. For this purpose, a platform for open access journals for long-term availability of professional e-journals will be established. All generated data will also be made accessible through GFBio (German Federation for Biological Data). BIOfid is supported by the LIS-Scientific Library Services and Information Systems program of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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Author:Markus KochORCiDGND, Gerwin KasperekORCiDGND, Thomas HörnschemeyerORCiDGND, Alexander MehlerORCiDGND, Claus WeilandORCiDGND, Angela HausingerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-438155
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.19803
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of TDWG
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of Completion:2017
Date of first Publication:2017/08/01
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Creating Corporation:TDWG 2017 Annual Conference, Oct 1-6 in Ottawa, Canada
Release Date:2017/08/24
Tag:anatomy ontologies; literature digitization; non-commercial publishing; open access; text mining tools
Issue:e19803
Page Number:2
Note:
© Koch M et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
HeBIS-PPN:416418538
Institutes:Informatik und Mathematik / Informatik
Zentrale Einrichtung / Universitätsbibliothek
Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 02 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften / 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften
5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0