How Aphia—The Platform behind Several Online and Taxonomically Oriented Databases—Can Serve Both the Taxonomic Community and the Field of Biodiversity Informatics

How Aphia—The Platform behind Several Online and Taxonomically Oriented Databases—Can Serve Both the Taxonomic Community and the Field of Biodiversity Informatics

The Aphia platform is an infrastructure designed to capture taxonomic and related data and information, and includes an online editing environment. The latter allows easy access to experts so they can update the content of the database in a timely fashion. Aphia is the core platform that underpins t...

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Main Authors: Leen Vandepitte, Bart Vanhoorne, Wim Decock, Stefanie Dekeyzer, Aina Trias Verbeeck, Lorenzo Bovit, Francisco Hernandez, Jan Mees
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Subjects:
Aphia
taxonomy
biodiversity informatics
online database
online editing environment
data rescue
World Register of Marine Species
web services
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/3/4/1448

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