Advancement and consolidation of the Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research (BIOfid)

专门的信息服务BIOfid(www.Biofid.de)面向研究机构和自然历史收藏中研究生物多样性主题的科学家的特殊需求。自2017年以来，BIOfid一直在建设一个基础设施，在生物多样性研究当前发展的背景下，以各种方式促进提供和调动与研究相关的数据。例如，通过OJS平台出版了专业期刊，19世纪和20世纪的中欧生物多样性文献被数字化，使用最先进的自然语言处理(NLP)方法对其进行语义索引，并通过BIOfid门户网站进行搜索。较旧文献的内容特别重要，因为迄今为止只有零星的信息可用于生物多样性研究，例如关于中欧农业和林业普遍工业化之前物种发生的信息。在第三个筹资阶段，将调动生物多样性文献的更多内容用于研究，并在内容和信息技术方面巩固、优化和扩大现有的服务。将为BIOfid产品组合的用户提供跨学科、面向用户的基础设施。这一战略的一个重要支柱是整合处理生物多样性研究中当前问题的用例，例如结构和功能多样性、物种相互作用以及物种与其环境之间的相互作用。一方面，这些用例将被用来向用户说明BIOfid门户的功能。另一方面，这些用例将用于记录计划用于应用程序运行的独立NLP管道。面向生物科学的语义文本索引将通过更高分辨率的知识提取以及更深入的探索功能和增加索引数据的互操作性来扩展。这种方法在开放获取部门的科学出版中发挥着越来越重要的作用，这就是为什么要为BIOfid的这一应用部分开发功能扩展，在BIOfid相关期刊上实施，并作为开放源码提供。此外，将积极开展与相关学科的FID的知识和技术转让，并日益重视与国家和国际生物多样性基础设施行为者之间的网络联系。尤其重要的是纳入NFDI4生物多样性联盟，在该联盟中，BIOfid将为几个任务领域做出贡献，即社区参与、国家和国际联网以及长期数据、工具和服务保存、认证等领域。

The specialised information service BIOfid (www.biofid.de) is oriented towards the special needs of scientists researching biodiversity topics at research institutions and in natural history collections. Since 2017, BIOfid has been building an infrastructure that contributes to the provision and mobilisation of research-relevant data in a variety of ways in the context of current developments in biodiversity research. For example, specialist journals were published via an OJS platform and Central European biodiversity literature from the 19th and 20th centuries was digitised, semantically indexed using state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and made searchable via the BIOfid portal. The contents of the older literature are of particular importance, as only fragmentary information is available for biodiversity research to date, for example on the occurrence of species before the widespread industrialisation of agriculture and forestry in Central Europe. In the 3rd funding phase, further content from the biodiversity literature is to be mobilised for research and the established services consolidated, optimised and expanded in terms of content and information technology. An interdisciplinary, user-oriented infrastructure will be provided for the users of the BIOfid portfolio. An important pillar of this strategy is the integration of use cases that deal with current issues in biodiversity research, e.g. structural and functional diversity, species interactions and the interactions between species and their environments. On the one hand, these use cases will be used to illustrate the functions of the BIOfid portal for users. On the other hand, these use cases will be used to document a stand-alone NLP pipeline planned for application operation. The semantic text indexing, which is geared towards the biosciences, is to be expanded through finer-resolution knowledge extraction as well as deeper exploration functionality and increased interoperability of the indexed data. This approach plays an increasingly important role for scientific publishing in the open access sector, which is why functional extensions are to be developed for this application segment of BIOfid, implemented in BIOfid-related journals and made available as open source. In addition, the knowledge and technology transfer with FIDs of related disciplines is to be proactively established and the networking with actors of national and international biodiversity infrastructures is to be increasingly focused on. Of particular importance is the integration into the NFDI4BioDiversity consortium, in which BIOfid will contribute to several task areas, namely in the areas of community engagement, national and international networking and long-term data, tools and service preservation, certification.