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Taxonomic Curation in a Multi-taxa Symbiota Portal by K. Samanta Orellana; Edward Gilbert; Lindsay Walker; Katelin Pearson; Laura Prado; Greg Post; Jenn Yost; Nico Franz is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Taxonomic Curation in a Multi-taxa Symbiota Portal about?
Symbiota is an open-source software that allows the creation of online portals for accessing, managing, and mobilizing biodiversity data (Gries et al. 2014, Symbiota Support Hub 2021). Most of the portals are focused on communities with specific taxonomic interests, which often allows the construction of specialized taxonomic thesauri by portal managers (Gilbert et al. 2020, Pearson 2021a). A portal dedicated to the full range of collections in one country (Portal de Biodiversidad de Guatemala 2022) has represented an interesting challenge for taxonomic management. The Guatemala Biodiversity portal currently allows the digitization and active management of 29 natural history collections in this country, including collections of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, fungi, lichens, and fossils. Additionally, two institutional observation collections are live managed within the portal (Orellana et al. 2022). This brings up the need to have a suitable taxonomic thesaurus that serves all the collection managers involved. Similar to other Symbiota portals, the Guatemala Biodiversity portal facilitates the incorporation of external catalogs such as Catalog of Life (Bánki et al. 2022), and
Who reads Taxonomic Curation in a Multi-taxa Symbiota Portal?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- K. Samanta Orellana; Edward Gilbert; Lindsay Walker; Katelin Pearson; Laura Prado; Greg Post; Jenn Yost; Nico Franz
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)