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Unlocking the Legacy The Untapped V alue of Data in Taxonomic Literature

Jeremy Miller 1,2 , Donat Agosti 2,3 , Guido Sautter 2 , Terry Catapano 2,4 , David King 5 , Serrano Pereira 1 , Rutger Vos 1 , Soraya Sierra 1.

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Unlocking the Legacy The Untapped V alue of Data in Taxonomic Literature

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  1. Jeremy Miller1,2, Donat Agosti2,3, Guido Sautter2, Terry Catapano2,4, David King5, Serrano Pereira1, Rutger Vos1, Soraya Sierra1 1. Naturalis Biodiveristy Center, Leiden, Netherlands; 2. Plazi, Zinggstrasse 16, Bern, Switzerland; 3. Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland; 4. Columbia University, New York, United States of America; 5.The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Report from the pro-iBiosphere Spider Pilot and data visualization hackathon Unlocking the LegacyThe UntappedValue of Data in TaxonomicLiterature

  2. Species occurrence data in GBIF: Animals Records: 230,000,000 Species: 165,000

  3. Species occurrence data in GBIF GBIF Records Species in GBIF Other animals Other Plants animals Spiders Plants Hymenoptera Birds Birds Hymenoptera Spiders % Described species in GBIF

  4. Value of species occurrence data Testing surrogates to establish conservation priorities Insects Snails Vertebrates Lauraceae Insects Snails Insects Insects Snails Vertebrates Vertebrates Snails Vertebrates Lauraceae Lauraceae Lauraceae • Snails and Insects • strong predictors of conservation priorities for vertebrates, but not vice versa • have finer-scale distribution patterns and higher local endemicity than vertebrates and plants Moritz, C., K.S. Richardson, S. Ferrier, G.B. Monteith, J. Stanisic, S.E. Williams, T. Whiffin. 2001. Biogeographical concordance and efficiency of taxon indicators for establishing conservation priority in a tropical rainforest biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, Series B 268: 1875-1881.

  5. Number of Collection Records in Physical Versus Digital Form, by Collection

  6. Cybertaxonomic Publication Venue Traditional Publication Venue PDF Prison Collect specimens Make Observations Analyze Data and Write Manuscript GoldenGATE XML Markup Editor TaxonX XML Schema Primary Data Drawings: slavenapeneva.com Thanks: Lyubomir Penev

  7. pro-iBiosphere spider pilot 12,000 Taxonomic Papers on Spiders Since 1757

  8. pro-iBiosphere spider pilot 34 (~7%) ~500

  9. Countries (Region) Australia (Queensland) Export species materials citations (DwC)

  10. PUBLISHED BY Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database

  11. pro-iBiosphere spider pilot 5170 specimens 4062 plottable specimens from 1138 unique locations

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