Biodiversity Informatics Sarah Faulwetter Hellenic Centre for Marine Research.
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capture
storage
retrieval
analyses
deals with
individual organisms
species
populations
interactions between them
relationships between them
of data & information about
systematics
evolutionary biology
population biology
ecology
conservation biology
coming from disciplines such as
specimen / museum data
species occurrence data
taxonomic character data
taxonomy / classifications
quality control procedures
metadata standards
exchange protocols
data schemas and definitions
taxonomy / classifications
species occurrence data
species occurrence data
what occurs where?
why is it there?
why does it not occur in some other places?
has it been there before?
will it be there in the future?
are there other places it could occur?
scientific name:
Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 genus name specific
epithetauthority year of
publication
Aa paleacea
Limulus polyphemus
Kiwa hirsuta
Osedax frankpressiKingia australis
Pieris japponica
Pieris rapae
Trypanosoma brucei
Homo sapiens
Koko
Горилла
Guerilla
Eastern Lowland Gorilla
Gorilla graueri
Gorilla berengei
Gorilla beringei Matschie
Gorilla beringei mikenensis
King kong
Gorilla gorilla
Virunga
Gorila
GorilleMountain gorilla
大猩猩
ゴリラ
1one name has more than one meaning
disambiguation
= distinguish between different organisms with the same name
VERNACULAR NAMES Gorilla English Mountain Gorilla English Eastern Gorilla English Eastern lowland gorilla English Gorille des plaines orientales French Grauer’s gorilla English Горилла Russian Gorila Spanish Bergsgorilla German Låglandsgorilla Swedish Bwindi Kinyarwanda Virunga Kinyarwanda 大猩猩 Chinese ゴリラ Japanese
OBJECTIVE SYNONYMS Gorilla beringei Gorilla beringei Matschie, 1902 Gorilla beringei mikenensis Lönnberg, 1917
MISSPELLINGS, SPELLING VARIATIONS,…Gorilla berengeiGorilla beringei Matschie, 1905Guerilla guerillaG. graueri MatschieG. graueri M. 1914
SUBJECTIVE SYNONYMS Gorilla graueri Matschie, 1914 Gorilla beringei graueri (Matschie, 1914) Gorilla gorilla
collect ALL names
use an existing classification
provide editing & annotation tools
insert all names
involve experts
indexing and navigational core of EoL
comprehensive – all names
taxonomically intelligent
access to multiple classifications
communal
always evolving, always current