Talk given to HATII at Glasgow

1. @rdmpage
http://iphylo.blogspot.com
Biodiversity informatics:
Digitising the living world

3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695

4. GBIF.org 500 million records

5. Specimens recorded from “USA”

8. 441,023 data points in Kenya…

9. None of the data about Kenya comes from Kenya

10. iNaturalist

11. EOL photos in Flickr
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92668

12. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695

13. Taxonomy

14. Names of animals must be:
published

15. Names of animals must be:
unique

16. Simples

17. Skull, mandible and tooth morphology of the holotype of L. melvillei MUSM 1676.
O Lambert et al. Nature 466, 105-108 (2010) doi:10.1038/nature09067

18. Leviathan melvillei

20. Bugger…

21. Livyatan melvillei

22. Two kinds of #fail

23. We don’t have a list of all names

24. Publications containing names
often not accessible

25. Leviathan melvillei

26. If it’s not online it doesn’t exist

27. @BioDivLibrary

28. 45 million pages, all Open Access

29. Problems with
Biodiversity Heritage
Library (BHL)
• emphasises “old”
stuff (pre-1923)
• unit is scanned
book, not
scientific article
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6162/6176297334_48b2dc550a_z.jpg

30. 100,000 articles from http://biostor.org (BHL)
1923 today

31. Numbers of new animal names
1923
WWI WWII

32. PMID:948206

33. http://biostor.org/reference/102054

36. http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/215921922/

37. BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bhl-and-gbif-as-biomedical-databases.html

38. Biodiversity Knowledge Graph

40. MESH term

41. Impact of
collection

42. In an attempt to live up to that increasing
demand for documentation, the leadership of
the Natural History Museum of Denmark has
issued an order to its curatorial staff - The
staff members are requested to document
which publications from 2011, written
entirely by external scientists, that in one way
or another are based on material in the
collections of the Museum.
@TAXACOM http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen

43. https://twitter.com/#!/search/10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0036881

44. https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status
/205595933159858176
https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176

45. http://www.museum-analytics.org/

46. Cited, linkable specimens
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology
Herpetology Collections
11194
Herpetology Collection (University
of Kansas Biodiversity Research
Center)
CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
MCZ Herpetology Collection
9619
6720
5818
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html

47. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695

49. How do we build this?