The process of standardizing taxon names, taxonomic name harmonization, is necessary to
properly merge data indexed by taxon names. The large variety of taxonomic databases and …

Traditionally, the generation and use of biodiversity data and their associated specimen
objects have been primarily the purview of individuals and small research groups. While …

We surveyed the treatment of taxonomic information in 567 papers published in nine
entomological journals in 2016. The proportion of papers that provide taxonomic data in …

Spatial and/or temporal biases in biodiversity data can directly influence the utility,
comparability, and reliability of ecological and evolutionary studies. While the effects of …

New Science paradigms have recently evolved to promote open publication of scientific
findings as well as multi‐disciplinary collaborative approaches to scientific experimentation …

Background Species occurrence records are very important in the biodiversity domain.
While several available corpora contain only annotations of species names or habitats and …

The need for a names-based cyber-infrastructure for digital biology is based on the
argument that scientific names serve as a standardized metadata system that has been used …

The increasing growth of literature in biodiversity presents challenges to users who need to
discover pertinent information in an efficient and timely manner. In response, text mining …

Background Scientific names in biology act as universal links. They allow us to cross-
reference information about organisms globally. However variations in spelling of scientific …

Taxonomic names associated with digitized biocollections labels have flooded into
repositories such as GBIF, iDigBio and VertNet. The names on these labels are often …