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The Big Questions For Biodiversity Informatics
dc.contributor.author | Peterson, A. Townsend | |
dc.contributor.author | Knapp, Sandra | |
dc.contributor.author | Guralnick, Robert P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Soberón, Jorge | |
dc.contributor.author | Holder, Mark T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-19T17:47:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-19T17:47:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Peterson, T., Knapp, S., Guralnick, R., Soberón, J., Holder, M. 2010. The Big Questions For Biodiversity Informatics. Systematics and Biodiversity 8(2): 159-168. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13674 | |
dc.description | This is the publisher's version, which the author has permission to share. The original version may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772001003739369 | |
dc.description.abstract | Science is a sequence of generating new ideas, detailed explorations, incorporation of the results into a toolbox for understanding data, and turning them into useful knowledge. One recent development has been large-scale, computer-aided management of biodiversity information. This emerging field of biodiversity informatics has been growing quickly, but without overarching scientific questions to guide its development; the result has been developments that have no connection to genuine insight and forward progress. We outline what biodiversity informatics should be, a link between diverse dimensions of organismal biology – genomics, phylogenetics, taxonomy, distributional biology, ecology, interactions, and conservation status – and describe the science progress that would result. These steps will enable a transition from ‘gee-whiz’ to fundamental science infrastructure. | |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | |
dc.subject | Analysis | |
dc.subject | Biodiversity data capture | |
dc.subject | Data integration | |
dc.subject | Ecology | |
dc.subject | Evolutionary biology | |
dc.subject | Informatics | |
dc.subject | Interpretation | |
dc.subject | Phylogeny | |
dc.title | The Big Questions For Biodiversity Informatics | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Soberón, Jorge | |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14772001003739369 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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