Building a community-based taxonomic resource for digitization of parasites and their hosts
Building a community-based taxonomic resource for digitization of parasites and their hosts
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DOI：
10.1093/isd/ixad023
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发表时间：
2023-11-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Zaspel，Jennifer M.
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作者：
Sullivan，Kathryn A.;Tucker，Erika M.;Zaspel，Jennifer M.
地球上生物多样性的分类是自然科学所有研究领域的基础。可靠的生物命名和分类系统有助于长期有效地获取关于生物体及其名称的信息。然而，广泛共享、访问、交付和更新这些资源仍然是一个持续存在的问题。生物多样性数据共享界已认识到这一障碍，但以可持续方式实现分类名称标准化和不断更新的具体努力仍然有限。高多样性的群体，如节肢动物，特别具有挑战性，因为每种物种数量的可用标本数据大大低于脊椎动物或植物群体。陆地寄生虫跟踪专题收集网络项目开发了一个工作流程，用于收集所有可用来源中经过专家验证的分类名称，调整这些来源，并发布一个单一的资源，为未来标准化数字标本识别数据的努力提供一个模型。这一过程包括收集经专家核实的代表陆生节肢动物寄生虫全部分类范围的命名清单，记录所遇到的问题，并找到可能的解决方案，以协调分类资源与大型数据发布者。虽然我们的专家资源和全球生物多样性信息设施之间的不一致性相对较低，但所有分类群的影响都影响到与数十万标本记录相对应的数千个名称。在这里，我们展示了这些分类资源的交付和持续维护的机制，同时强调了生物多样性数据共享的分类名称策展的现状。
Classification of the biological diversity on Earth is foundational to all areas of research within the natural sciences. Reliable biological nomenclatural and taxonomic systems facilitate efficient access to information about organisms and their names over time. However, broadly sharing, accessing, delivering, and updating these resources remains a persistent problem. This barrier has been acknowledged by the biodiversity data sharing community, yet concrete efforts to standardize and continually update taxonomic names in a sustainable way remain limited. High diversity groups such as arthropods are especially challenging as available specimen data per number of species is substantially lower than vertebrate or plant groups. The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Thematic Collections Network project developed a workflow for gathering expert-verified taxonomic names across all available sources, aligning those sources, and publishing a single resource that provides a model for future endeavors to standardize digital specimen identification data. The process involved gathering expert-verified nomenclature lists representing the full taxonomic scope of terrestrial arthropod parasites, documenting issues experienced, and finding potential solutions for reconciliation of taxonomic resources against large data publishers. Although discordance between our expert resources and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility are relatively low, the impact across all taxa affects thousands of names that correspond to hundreds of thousands of specimen records. Here, we demonstrate a mechanism for the delivery and continued maintenance of these taxonomic resources, while highlighting the current state of taxon name curation for biodiversity data sharing.