An appraisal of megascience platforms for biodiversity information
An appraisal of megascience platforms for biodiversity information
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DOI：
10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
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3.3
通讯作者：
Rambold, Gerhard
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作者：
Triebel, Dagmar;Hagedorn, Gregor;Rambold, Gerhard
生物多样性遗产图书馆（BHL），生命目录（CoL），生命百科全书（EOL），全球生物多样性信息设施（GBIF），国际生命条形码（iBOL），国际核苷酸序列数据库合作（INSDC）和JSTOR植物科学，都属于一组全球参与者，收集，处理，重新利用和提供各种生物的生物多样性数据。这些平台主要集中在一个数据域，例如，分类和分类，发生，形态，生态和分子数据。目前的贡献描述了这些平台上的生物研究数据的处理和提供方面，重点是数据交换，版权问题和数据共享政策的技术实现，以及它们对数据保管人，所有者，提供者，和出版商。除了JSTOR Plant Science之外，大多数国际倡议都寻求长期的商业模式和供资机制，以公开和免费提供在线数据。例如，目前GBIF依靠政府承诺提供资金，CoL由欧盟或国家赠款提供资金，并以英国非营利公司Species 2000和ITIS为基础。这些商业模式相比，JSTOR植物科学，全球植物倡议（GPI）的商业门户网站。目前，所有举措都面临着数据管理和软件开发方面的可持续性挑战，以维持其服务的复杂性。这里讨论的所有平台也收集和提供真菌学和地衣学研究数据。
The megascience platforms Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), Catalogue of Life (CoL), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), International Barcode of Life (iBOL), International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) and JSTOR Plant Science, all belong to a group of global players that harvest, process, repurpose and provide biodiversity data on all kinds of organisms. Each of these platforms primarily focus on one data domain, for instance, taxonomy and classification, occurrence, morphology, ecology, and molecular data.The present contribution describes aspects of processing and provision of biological research data on these platforms, focusing on the technical implementation of data exchange, copyright issues, and data sharing policies as well as their implications for data custodians, owners, providers, and publishers. With the exception of JSTOR Plant Science, most international initiatives seek long-term business models and funding mechanisms to provide online data openly and free of charge. For example, currently GBIF depends on governmental commitments for its funding, and CoL is financed by EU or national grants, as well as being based on Species 2000, a British non-for-profit company, and ITIS. These business models are compared with that of JSTOR Plant Science, the commercial portal of the Global Plant Initiative (GPI). All initiatives currently meet challenges of sustainability with regard to data curation as well as software development for maintaining the complexity of their services. All platforms discussed here also harvest and provide mycological and lichenological research data.