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Bridging domains: how SESAR supports Earth and biodiversity digital extended specimens
Persistent sample identifiers plus linked metadata propagated to DataCite let samples be connected to their derived research products across Earth and biodiversity domains.
Andrea Thomer ↗
Machine-Ready Botanical Data: Mapping Integrated Collections and Traits with Darwin Core Data Package
Darwin Core Data Package can serve as a semantic integration layer for a botanical garden's diverse collections and trait data, and MBG's draft mapping is offered for community refinement.
Nathan VanderKraats ↗
Rebuilding core functionalities of the GGBN system: taxonomic alignment with international research infrastructures
GGBN is rebuilding transparent automated name parsing and matching on GBIF parsing and ChecklistBank/Catalogue of Life XR to improve sample discovery.
Walter Berendsohn ↗
X-raying wild plant seeds: preparing images for future AI-driven global biodiversity research
Adding scale and linking legacy seed X-rays to collection records turns an inaccessible archive into AI-ready research data.
Robert Turner ↗
Digitize, Standardize, Mobilize: Wildlife Biodiversity Biobanking with Specify
Specify's hierarchical trees and attachments turned a fragmented wildlife biobank into a traceable extended-specimen data system.
Kim Labuschagne ↗
SpecifyaaS: Managing Ephemeral Repositories in Collections-Based Research
Giving researchers their own lightweight Specify instances early in the research process standardises data from the start and eases later exchange with the institutional collection.
Kevin Holston ↗