Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Urmas Kõljalg (urmas.koljalg@ut.ee)
Received: 17 Jun 2019 | Published: 26 Jun 2019
© 2019 Urmas Kõljalg, Kessy Abarenkov, Allan Zirk, Veljo Runnel, Timo Piirmann, Raivo Pöhönen, Filipp Ivanov
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Citation: Kõljalg U, Abarenkov K, Zirk A, Runnel V, Piirmann T, Pöhönen R, Ivanov F (2019) PlutoF: Biodiversity data management platform for the complete data lifecycle. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37398. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37398
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PlutoF online platform (https://plutof.ut.ee) is built for the management of biodiversity data. The concept is to provide a common workbench where the full data lifecycle can be managed and support seamless data sharing between single users, workgroups and institutions. Today, large and sophisticated biodiversity datasets are increasingly developed and managed by international workgroups. PlutoF's ambition is to serve such collaborative projects as well as to provide data management services to single users, museum or private collections and research institutions.
Data management in PlutoF follows a logical order of the data lifecycle Fig.
Full data lifecycle with PlutoF platform. PlutoF follows standards, which ensure that users data are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) throughout every phase of the data lifecycle.
In PlutoF users can manage different data types. Most common types include specimen and living specimen data, nucleotide sequences, human observations, material samples, taxonomic backbones and ecological data. Another important feature is that these data types can be managed as a single datasets or projects.
PlutoF follows several biodiversity standards. Examples include Darwin Core, GGBN (Global Genome Biodiversity Network), EML (Ecological Metadata Language), MCL (Microbiological Common Language), and MIxS (Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence).
data management, biodiversity data, FAIR Data, data lifecycle
Allan Zirk
Biodiversity_Next 2019
PlutoF is funded by Estonian research infrastructure roadmap object NATARC (https://natarc.ut.ee/en/index.php). Future funding will be probably provided by the Est-DiSSCo which is listed in the new national roadmap. New business model will be created in 2020 which allows other institutions and countries to take part in the development of PlutoF.