ReviewBioscience2022
Digital Extended Specimens: Enabling an Extensible Network of Biodiversity Data Records as Integrated Digital Objects on the Internet.
Review in Bioscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Type Genomics: A Framework for Integrating Genomic Data into Biodiversity and Taxonomic Research.Systematic biology · 2025Guideline
- Ethical collectomics: A guide to the responsible and fair mobilization of natural history collections.Bioscience · 2026Article
- From Knowledge to Action: Next Steps for the Natural Science Collections Community.Bioscience · 2026Article
- A holistic survey of small mammal diversity across an iconic Madrean Sky Island (Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, USA).bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology's digital databases.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Application of Computer Vision to the Automated Extraction of Metadata from Natural History Specimen Labels: A Case Study on Herbarium Specimens.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- An updated herpetological inventory of the Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary, eastern Mindanao Island, Philippines.ZooKeys · 2026Article
- Integrating biological and environmental data to solve key scientific and societal challenges.Bioscience · 2026Article
- The Italian Taxonomic Backbone: exploiting taxonomic expertise in the country.Biodiversity data journal · 2026Article
- Ozboneviz: an Australian precedent in FAIR 3D imagery and extended biodiversity collections.Bioscience · 2025Article
- Natural History Collections at the Crossroads: Shifting Priorities and Data-Driven Opportunities.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Opening doors to physical sample tracking and attribution in Earth and environmental sciences.Scientific data · 2025Article
- A vision of human-AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research.Bioscience · 2025Article
- Integrating animal tracking and trait data to facilitate global ecological discoveries.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
- National biodiversity data infrastructures: ten essential functions for science, policy, and practice.Bioscience · 2025Article
- Commentary on "Preliminary Species Hypotheses" in Entomological Taxonomy: A Global Data and FAIR Infrastructure Perspective.Biodiversity data journal · 2025Article
- DEFGermplasm: a comprehensive digital platform for forest genomic and phenotype data integration.Forestry research · 2025Article
- Valorization of Historical Natural History Collections Through Digitization: The Algarium Vatova-Schiffner.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The generaBiodiversity data journal · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
18 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The early twenty-first century has witnessed massive expansions in availability and accessibility of digital data in virtually all domains of the biodiversity sciences. Led by an array of asynchronous digitization activities spanning ecological, environmental, climatological, and biological collections data, these initiatives have resulted in a plethora of mostly disconnected and siloed data, leaving to researchers the tedious and time-consuming manual task of finding and connecting them in usable ways, integrating them into coherent data sets, and making them interoperable. The focus to date has been on elevating analog and physical records to digital replicas in local databases prior to elevating them to ever-growing aggregations of essentially disconnected discipline-specific information. In the present article, we propose a new interconnected network of digital objects on the Internet-the Digital Extended Specimen (DES) network-that transcends existing aggregator technology, augments the DES with third-party data through machine algorithms, and provides a platform for more efficient research and robust interdisciplinary discovery.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.