Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research
Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research
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地理配准中的质量问题：从物理收藏到生态研究的数字数据存储库
DOI：
10.1111/ddi.13208
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
John Wieczorek
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作者：
A. Marcer;E. Haston;Q. Groom;Arturo H. Ariño;A. Chapman;T. Bakken;P. Braun;Mathias Dillen;M. Ernst;Agustí Escobar;D. Fichtmüller;Laurence Livermore;N. Nicolson;K. Paragamian;Deborah L Paul;L. Pettersson;Sarah Phillips;J. Plummer;H. Rainer;I. Rey;Tim Robertson;Dominik Röpert;J. Santos;F. Uribe;J. Waller;John Wieczorek
自然历史藏品构成了地球上生命信息的巨大财富。据估计，全世界有超过20亿个标本保存在机构中，其中只有不到10%可以通过GBIF等生物多样性数据聚合器访问。此外，它们是生态进化研究的一个非常重要的资源，这在很大程度上取决于了解标本采集的精确位置，以描述它们生活的环境。然而，只有大约55%的可访问记录是地理参考的，只有31%具有坐标不确定性信息，这对于进行严格的研究至关重要。由于认识到这一知识差距阻碍了这些数据在研究中的巨大潜力，因此组织了一次讲习班，将自然历史收藏品地理参考方面的主要参与者聚集在一起。这里介绍了这次研讨会的讨论情况和成果。
Natural history collections constitute an enormous wealth of information of Life on Earth. It is estimated that over 2 billion specimens are preserved at institutions worldwide, of which less than 10% are accessible via biodiversity data aggregators such as GBIF. Moreover, they are a very important resource for eco‐evolutionary research, which greatly depends on knowing the precise location where the specimens were collected in order to characterize the environment in which they lived. Yet, only about 55% of the accessible records are georeferenced and only 31% have coordinate uncertainty information, which is critical for conducting rigorous studies. The awareness of this gap of knowledge which hinders the enormous potential of such data in research led to the organization of a workshop which brought together key players in georeferencing of natural history collections. The discussion and outcomes of this workshop are here presented.