In recent years,
CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities)
institutions
have started to enrich their collection data with links to semantic
resources (e.g. persons or geographical units).
In this way, it is possible for the first time to represent distributed
collections as a unified information space and to enhance them with
various external resources. An example of this approach is this
"Botany Pilot", in which diverse data on collectors of botanical
specimens are made accessible by linking a reliable and stable person
ID (e.g. a so called
QID in
Wikidata).
This includes, for example, biographical data from Wikidata, specimens
in different herbarium collections, publications in
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library)
and, more
recently, entries from
https://bionomia.net/. Based on a single person
identifier, the respective information is dynamically pulled together
with
linked data mechanisms from a growing number of web resources.
Example 1:
Richard Spruce
Example 2:
Mary A. Chase
Best practices on CETAF identifiers in general are compiled at
https://cetafidentifiers.biowikifarm.net/wiki/Main_Page.
For further information you can contact us under
email
biodiversitydata@bgbm.org.
