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ArticlePloS one2014

The GBIF integrated publishing toolkit: facilitating the efficient publishing of biodiversity data on the internet.

Tim Robertson, Markus Döring, Robert Guralnick, David Bloom, John Wieczorek, Kyle Braak, Javier Otegui, Laura Russell, Peter Desmet

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Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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80 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Tim RobertsonGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Markus DöringGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Robert GuralnickUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
David BloomUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
John WieczorekUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Kyle BraakGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Javier OteguiUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Laura RussellUniversity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America.
Peter DesmetResearch Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The planet is experiencing an ongoing global biodiversity crisis. Measuring the magnitude and rate of change more effectively requires access to organized, easily discoverable, and digitally-formatted biodiversity data, both legacy and new, from across the globe. Assembling this coherent digital representation of biodiversity requires the integration of data that have historically been analog, dispersed, and heterogeneous. The Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) is a software package developed to support biodiversity dataset publication in a common format. The IPT's two primary functions are to 1) encode existing species occurrence datasets and checklists, such as records from natural history collections or observations, in the Darwin Core standard to enhance interoperability of data, and 2) publish and archive data and metadata for broad use in a Darwin Core Archive, a set of files following a standard format. Here we discuss the key need for the IPT, how it has developed in response to community input, and how it continues to evolve to streamline and enhance the interoperability, discoverability, and mobilization of new data types beyond basic Darwin Core records. We close with a discussion how IPT has impacted the biodiversity research community, how it enhances data publishing in more traditional journal venues, along with new features implemented in the latest version of the IPT, and future plans for more enhancements.

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BiodiversityInternetPublishingSoftware

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PMID25099149
PMCPMC4123864

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