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Corresponding author: Francisco Pando (pando@rjb.csic.es)
Received: 12 Aug 2022 | Published: 23 Aug 2022
© 2022 Francisco Pando, María Mora, William Ulate, Manuel Vargas, Camila Plata, Gloria Martínez-Sagarra
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Pando F, Mora MA, Ulate W, Vargas M, Plata CA, Martínez-Sagarra G (2022) Plinian Core: The long and winding road. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e91584. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91584
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Plinian Core (PliC) is a set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe different aspects of biological species information. Under "biological species information" all kinds of properties or traits related to taxa—biological and non-biological—are included. Thus, for instance, terms pertaining to descriptions, legal aspects, conservation, management, demographics, nomenclature, or related resources are incorporated.
Plinian Core started as a collaborative project between Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio, Costa Rica) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Spain (GBIF Spain) in 2005. In successive years, the National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO, Mexico), the National Network of Open Biodiversity Data (SiB Colombia)/the Humboldt Institute (Colombia), the University of Granada (Spain) and the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil) were also involved. In 2012. PliC aligned with the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and an umbrella Interest Group was created (Species Information IG,
PliC design requirements include: ease of use, being self-contained, able to support data integration from multiple databases, and ability to handle different levels of granularity. Since its early stages, PliC was formalized as an XML Schema. Its terms can be grouped in its current version as follows:
During its years of existence, PliC has been implemented in several real-life contexts (e.g.,
PliC has been featured in some TDWG conferences, either to explore and explain how it relates to other TDWG standards (
Recent work has focused on how to represent terms and codify structure as an XML Schema (XSD) under the current TDWG Documentation Standard (SDS,
controlled vocabularies, data specification, species information, standards
Francisco Pando
TDWG 2022
All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.