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ArticleBiodiversity data journal2016

The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories: A Call for Community Curation.

David E Schindel, Scott E Miller, Michael G Trizna, Eileen Graham, Adele E Crane

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Article in Biodiversity data journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The NCBI BioCollections Database.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

David E SchindelConsortium for the Barcode of Life and Scientific Collection International, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Scott E MillerOffice of the Provost, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Michael G TriznaConsortium for the Barcode of Life, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Eileen GrahamScientific Collections International, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.
Adele E CraneScientific Collections International, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories is an online metadata resource for biodiversity collections, the institutions that contain them, and associated staff members. The registry provides contact and address information, characteristics of the institutions and collections using controlled vocabularies and free-text descripitons, links to related websites, unique identifiers for each institution and collection record, text fields for loan and use policies, and a variety of other descriptors. Each institution record includes an institutionCode that must be unique, and each collection record must have a collectionCode that is unique within that institution. The registry is populated with records imported from the largest similar registries and more can be harmonized and added. Doing so will require community input and curation and would produce a truly comprehensive and unifying information resource.

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Authority FilecollectionCodeCollectionsDarwin Core TripletinstitutionCodeRegistryRepositories

Identifiers

PMID27660523
PMCPMC5018115

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.