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From biodiversity data to knowledge in the age of AI: where do ontologies and standards fit?
AI can generate data and candidate knowledge, but only standards, ontologies, provenance and governance let data become trusted evidence and therefore knowledge, which is why TDWG matters more than ever.
Ramona Walls ↗
Using automation to consolidate biodiversity occurrence data in South African National Parks
Automating the harvest, integration and summary of biodiversity data lets park staff get evidence-based species lists and dashboards without laborious manual compilation.
Judith Botha ↗
Geonomia: Metadata and Community for Georeferencing
Clustering specimens into collecting trips makes georeferencing and AI enrichment more efficient and should be done as a community effort.
Nicky Nicolson ↗
Resilience of Research Infrastructures through knowledge and engagement
Communication, engagement and continuous user training make an infrastructure relevant enough that a community will want it to survive.
Jose, Mareike Petersen ↗
Understanding geological specimen use for effective digitisation strategies
Evidence from inquiries, loans and publications shows geological specimens have diverse, sometimes unexpected uses, which should shape which data are digitised first.
Rachel Walcott, Adam Mansur ↗
Architecting the National Biodiversity Information System: Standards-Driven Workflows for South Africa’s Botanical and Zoological Data
SANBI sustains NBIS through a statutory mandate plus a roadmap of diversified funding, partnerships and demonstrated return on investment.
Fhatani Ranwashe ↗
Building digital-native species: Transitioning from PDF liberation to semantic-by-design publishing
Keeping data linked and structured from specimen to publication yields FAIR, trusted data on the day of publication.
Laurence ↗
GBIF after 25 years
GBIF sustains itself by leveraging stable national contributions into additional funding and by embedding itself in the biodiversity policy and funding architecture.
Joe Miller ↗
Requirements of Sustainability Models for Geo-Biodiversity Data Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure sustainability and ecosystem sustainability go hand in hand, so infrastructure must be designed from the start to track use and support economic orchestration.
José Fortes ↗
Bionomia, Scholia, Wikidata and Zenodo: broadcasting biodiversity data contributions
Linking people, specimens, publications, datasets and collections through Wikidata and associated tools (Bionomia, Scholia, Expeditia, Zenodo) makes biodiversity contributions findable and creditable.
Siobhan Leachman ↗
Hit or miss? Creative promotion of biodiversity data and standards for success and recognition
The community should broaden what it counts and publishes as outputs, and deliberately reach new audiences with creative, citable formats.
Shelley James, Deborah Paul ↗