Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Allan Veiga (allan.kv@gmail.com), Antonio Mauro Saraiva (saraiva@usp.br), Cláudia Inês da Silva (claudiainess@usp.br)
Received: 09 Apr 2018 | Published: 17 May 2018
© 2018 Allan Veiga, Antonio Saraiva, Cláudia da Silva
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Citation: Veiga A, Saraiva A, da Silva C (2018) The Online Pollen Catalogs Network (RCPol). Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e25658. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25658
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Aiming at promoting interaction among researchers and the integration of data from their pollen collections, herbaria and bee collections, RCPol was created in 2013. In order to structure RCPol work, researchers and collaborators have organized information on Palynology and trophic interactions between bees and plants. During the project development, different computing tools were developed and provided on RCPol website (http://rcpol.org.br), including: interactive keys with multiple inputs for species identification (http://chaves.rcpol.org.br); a glossary of palinology related terms (http://chaves.rcpol.org.br/profile/glossary/eco); a plant-bee interactions database (http://chaves.rcpol.org.br/interactions); and a data quality tool (http://chaves.rcpol.org.br/admin/data-quality). Those tools were developed in partnership with researchers and collaborators from Escola Politécnica (USP) and other Brazilian and foreign institutions that act on palynology, floral biology, pollination, plant taxonomy, ecology, and trophic interactions. The interactive keys are organized in four branches: palynoecology, paleopalynology, palynotaxonomy and spores. These information are collaboratively digitized and managed using standardized Google Spreadsheets. All the information are assessed by a data quality assurance tool (based on the conceptual framework of TDWG Biodiversity Data Quality Interest Group
pollen, interaction, database, interactive identification key, data quality
Antonio Mauro Saraiva