Biodiversity data derive from myriad sources stored in various formats on many distinct
hardware and software platforms. An essential step towards understanding global patterns of …

There is increasing pressure from the scientific community, including funding agencies,
journals and peers, for authors to publish the biodiversity data used in published articles and …

… Besides the authors listed in the authorship list, the Steering Committee includes Hank
Bart, John Bates, Gladys Cotter, James Hanken, Craig Moritz, Nancy Simmons, and Linda …

The planet is experiencing an ongoing global biodiversity crisis. Measuring the magnitude
and rate of change more effectively requires access to organized, easily discoverable, and …

Natural history museums store millions of specimens of geological, biological, and cultural
entities. Data related to these objects are in increasing demand for investigations of …

The study of biodiversity spans many disciplines and includes data pertaining to species
distributions and abundances, genetic sequences, trait measurements, and ecological niches, …

… Citation: Guralnick RP, Wieczorek J, Beaman R, Hijmans RJ, the BioGeomancer Working
Group (2006) BioGeomancer: Automated Georeferencing to Map the World's Biodiversity …

Preliminary studies indicate that the recently described colonial tuco-tuco (Ctenomys
sociabilis) is social. As part of efforts to characterize the behavioral ecology of this species, we …

Natural history collections (NHCs) represent an enormous and largely untapped wealth of
information on the Earth's biota, made available through GBIF as digital preserved specimen …

Locality information for specimens of geological, biological, and cultural objects is
traditionally stored as textual descriptions. With an increasing demand for natural and cultural …