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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
Conference Abstract
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K. Samanta Orellana‡, Edward Gilbert‡, Lindsay J. Walker‡, Katelin Pearson‡, Laura Rocha Prado‡, Greg Post‡, Jenn Yost§, Nico Franz‡|
Corresponding author: K. Samanta Orellana (sorellana@asu.edu)
Received: 18 Aug 2022 | Published: 23 Aug 2022
© 2022 K. Samanta Orellana, Edward Gilbert, Lindsay Walker, Katelin Pearson, Laura Prado, Greg Post, Jenn Yost, Nico Franz
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Citation:
Orellana KS, Gilbert E, Walker LJ, Pearson K, Prado LR, Post G, Yost J, Franz N (2022) Taxonomic Curation in a Multi-taxa Symbiota Portal. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e93671. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93671
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Abstract
Symbiota is an open-source software that allows the creation of online portals for accessing, managing, and mobilizing biodiversity data (
The Guatemala Biodiversity portal currently allows the digitization and active management of 29 natural history collections in this country, including collections of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, fungi, lichens, and fossils. Additionally, two institutional observation collections are live managed within the portal (
A partial solution has been importing snapshot collections with Guatemalan records from different Symbiota portals, or from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (
Nevertheless, these automated tools are often not enough to maintain the taxonomic thesaurus in understudied regions, such as Guatemala, and the manual curation of species names is still necessary. The curation of the taxonomic thesaurus in this portal is a work in progress, and we are achieving this with the creation of curated checklists within the portal (
The availability of a regional curated taxonomic thesaurus in the Guatemala Biodiversity portal is still limited and restricted to groups like vertebrates and certain groups of insects, yet this online resource is useful for researchers who are working in local collections or are compiling information to publish new catalogs and checklists for Guatemala. Continuing with the improvement of this taxonomic resource is necessary not only to advance the knowledge of the biodiversity of Guatemala but to aggregate this information into relevant global catalogs.
Keywords
biodiversity portals, natural history collections, digitization, taxonomy, checklists
Presenting author
K. Samanta Orellana
Presented at
TDWG 2022
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