Semantics in support of biodiversity knowledge discovery: an introduction to the biological collections ontology and related ontologies.

The study of biodiversity spans many disciplines and includes data pertaining to species distributions and abundances, genetic sequences, trait measurements, and ecological niches, complemented by information on collection and measurement protocols. A review of the current landscape of metadata stan...

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Main Authors: Ramona L Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, Steve Baskauf, Reed Beaman, Stanley Blum, Shawn Bowers, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Neil Davies, Dag Endresen, Maria Alejandra Gandolfo, Robert Hanner, Alyssa Janning, Leonard Krishtalka, Andréa Matsunaga, Peter Midford, Norman Morrison, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Mark Schildhauer, Barry Smith, Brian J Stucky, Andrea Thomer, John Wieczorek, Jamie Whitacre, John Wooley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24595056/?tool=EBI