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AURORA - A Shiny app designed to create Darwin Core Archives from messy biodiversity datasets
AURORA lowers the barrier to Darwin Core publication by guiding researchers step by step from messy tables to standard-compliant tables and metadata.
Sara Araújo ↗
Growing Together: Community-Driven Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources
Giving citizens seeds, a good app and clear tutorials can yield large phenotypic datasets and community-based conservation of crop diversity.
Markus Oppermann ↗
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 ↗
Towards Scalable Trait Measurements from Digitized Specimens
Matching rulers to an annotated reference set lets specimen images be calibrated to real-world units with under 1% error in 96% of cases.
Kenzo Milleville ↗
LifeGate: Extending a Global Visual PhyloMap into a Structured Biodiversity Knowledge System
LifeGate's visual map of all described species will become an open, connected knowledge system with trait-based faceted search built from AI-assisted literature extraction.
Martin Freiberg, Birgitta König-Ries ↗
Phenobase: a harmonized, AI-ready knowledge base of global plant phenology
Combining ontologies with machine learning lets Phenobase close global phenology data gaps, but making the result AI-ready requires per-record model provenance, quality and citation.
Robert Guralnick ↗
Sharing Extended Specimen Data from Symbiota Portals using Registered Extensions
Existing registered Darwin Core extensions met each of Symbiota's extended-specimen needs, so look for existing standards before inventing new ones.
Katie Pearson ↗
Species trait literature mining to support integrative biodiversity distribution modelling
Demonstrating research use cases like trait-informed distribution modelling is key to persuading funders to support literature mobilisation infrastructure.
Robert Waterhouse ↗
Traits Thesaurus: toward semantic harmonization of FAIR trait-based data on aquatic organisms
A community-validated SKOS thesaurus of aquatic trait terms and units can make open trait data genuinely interoperable across taxa.
Jessica Titocci ↗
Automated Landmark Detection for Scalable Morphometric Data Extraction from Digitized Fish Collections
A lightweight dlib shape-regression model can automate most fish landmarking from museum images, but inner landmarks and variable specimen poses remain hard.
Bahadir Altintas ↗
From Historical Oology Cards to Structured Biodiversity Data: Multimodal LLM Transcription, Uncertainty Metrics, and Human Review
Token-level hesitation from log-probabilities does not tell you which transcriptions are wrong, but it reliably predicts where human review effort will go.
Grete Pasch ↗
Prototype: The Semantic Units Framework and Rosetta Statements for Knowledge Graph Construction Workflows
Rosetta-statement templates compiled into RML and SHACL make semantic-unit knowledge graphs much easier to author, at the cost of larger graphs.
Tarek Al Mustafa ↗