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      <title>Plazi on Twitter</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:00:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;first-post&#34;&gt;First post&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On July 29, 2021, &lt;a href=&#34;https://x.com/plazi_species&#34;&gt;@plazi_species&lt;/a&gt; started on Twitter with the very first tweet; Caridina namdat - a freshwater shrimp from Vietnam. The post received 0 likes and 0 retweets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/1.png&#34; alt=&#34;Caridina namdat - a freshwater shrimp from Vietnam&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;https://x.com/plazi_species/status/1420644565615366146&#34;&gt;Caridina namdat - a freshwater shrimp from Vietnam&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/figcaption&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind this account was to showcase Plazi&amp;rsquo;s work to a wider audience through individual examples of newly discovered species whose treatments were integrated into Plazi’s TreatmentBank as FAIRdata.  The first post to break the 100-likes mark was posted on November 2, 2021 and showed Parosphromenus juelinae, a beautiful freshwater fish from Indonesia.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Biodiversity Knowledge in the Digital Era: Free Access and Reuse of Scientific Data (Course)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;el-conocimiento-de-la-biodiversidad-en-la-era-digital-libre-acceso-y-reutilización-de-datos-científicos&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;El conocimiento de la biodiversidad en la era digital: libre acceso y reutilización de datos científicos&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Julia Giora, Juliana M. Wingert&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the great challenges of science is to facilitate the construction and availability of knowledge. In the digital age, knowledge about biodiversity is found mainly in scientific publications, which can be uploaded to various repositories or databases. To provide information to these repositories, data must be transformed into machine-readable formats. Additionally, people need to be trained and equipped to access and use this data appropriately. Colombia is a country with great biodiversity and important research institutions that constantly produce scientific knowledge such as Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNC), Universidad del Rosario, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad La Salle, Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad Jorge Tadeo, and Instituto Humboldt.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Three presentations at the Brazilian Meeting of Ichthyology</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;_neotropical-ichthyology-e-zootaxa-análise-de-dados-liberados-e-disponibilizados-em-repositórios-online_&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neotropical Ichthyology e Zootaxa: Análise de Dados Liberados e Disponibilizados em Repositórios Online&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Neotropical Ichthyology and Zootaxa: Analysis of Data Released and Made Available in Online Repositories — Poster)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;_espécies-ameaçadas-de-peixes-do-bioma-pampa-livre-acesso-às-descrições-originais-em-repositórios-de-dados-online_&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Espécies Ameaçadas de Peixes do Bioma Pampa: Livre Acesso às Descrições Originais em Repositórios de Dados Online&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Endangered Fish Species of the Pampa Biome: Open Access to Original Descriptions in Online Data Repositories — Oral Communication)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;_a-taxonomia-integrada-aos-meios-digitais-como-facilitar-o-acesso-e-a-reutilização-de-dados-taxonômicos-pela-comunidade-científica_&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Taxonomia Integrada aos Meios Digitais: como facilitar o acesso e a reutilização de dados taxonômicos pela comunidade científica&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Integrating Taxonomy to Digital Media: how to facilitate access and reuse of taxonomic data by the scientific community — Course)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>BiodiversityPMC: The One Health Library (Poster)</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2024/04/biodiversitypmc-the-one-health-library/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:48:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt; all day&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Presenters:&lt;/strong&gt; Emilie Pasche, Julien Gobeill, Donat Agosti, Lyubomir Penev, Quentin Groom, Teodor Georgiev, Esteban Gaillac, Alexandre Flament, Déborah Caucheteur, Pierre-André Michel, Marie Kolsch, Anaïs Mottaz, Patrick Ruch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One Health is a comprehensive and unified approach that recognises the close connection between the health of people, animals and whole ecosystems. While life and health sciences are widely represented in digital libraries such as PubMed Central, articles focussing on biodiversity, ecology or environmental sciences are relatively marginal. Addressing this critical gap, we introduce a novel Research Infrastructure named “BiodiversityPMC”, leveraging the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Literature Services (SIBiLS), which are already mirroring MEDLINE (over 36 million abstracts), PubMed Central contents (over 6 million full-text articles) and supplementary data files associated to scientific publications (over 6 million supplementary files including OCRized images and tables). The coverage of SIBiLS is expanded to encompass a broader range of biodiversity-related content, including environmental sciences and ecology. This involves indexing half a million taxonomic treatments and articles harvested from Plazi, and a growing set of full-text articles from journals in the field (e.g., Pensoft, European Journal of Taxonomy), which are not included into the original PubMed Central. To ensure comprehensive and standardized access, the contents are normalized using a large collection of life sciences terminologies and ontologies. Each instance of a term (or its synonym) is assigned a unique accession number, to support a semantically richer search experience. Of particular interest for the biodiversity communities, SIBiLS contents are normalized using ENVO (Environmental Ontology), ROBI (Relation Ontology Biotic Interactions), an enriched subset of RO (Relation Ontology), and LOTUS, a natural products database. Further, taxonomic names are normalized using both the NCBI Taxonomy and the Open Tree of Life, which include names from the Catalogue of Life. The resulting data graph contains more than 10 billion normalized descriptors. Access to BiodiversityPMC is facilitated through a &lt;a href=&#34;https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/&#34;&gt;new graphic user interface&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/api/&#34;&gt;an OpenAPI&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/sparql/&#34;&gt;a SPARQL endpoint&lt;/a&gt;. BiodiversityPMC not only offers traditional search methods (access via keyword search), but also introduces innovative approaches for navigating the complex landscape of health and environmental sciences. An original question-answering interface can help provide new perspectives over the literature. BidoversityPMC stands out as a valuable resource proficient in addressing a wide spectrum of questions related to biodiversity in the broad sense.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>How do we get there? a 7* scheme of getting open FAIR publications</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:48:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt; 2:30PM CEST&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Presenters:&lt;/strong&gt; Donat Agosti&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Research results are published as scientific articles. They represent an intricate network of citations and facts, representing the existing knowledge, as billions of statements. In biodiversity, this includes a corpus of an estimated 500 million pages. A small but growing part is published in a semantically enhanced open access format, but the overwhelming part is behind multiple barriers, from being print only to closed access portable document formats (PDFs). To make use of the emerging AI tools, this corpus needs to be made available in a machine actionable way. At least part of it has to be curated to serve as training material for AI and machine learning. The steps towards fully machine actionable data will be described in this presentation. Starting with print (), print with metadata (), to scan-based PDF with metadata (), text-based PDF with metadata (), ASCI – standard structured XML with metadata (), ASCI – XML with semantic enhancements and metadata () and ending with ASCI – XML with semantic enhancements, attributes and metadata (****). To serve the wider community, the publications have to be open access, infrastructures need to be expanded such as the Biodiversity Literature Repository to allow FAIRizing of data, including specific blocks of text such as taxonomic treatments, recommendations or illustrations, and vocabularies have to be developed and maintained to enable semantic enhancement in cases where they do not exist.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>TreatmentBank: an automated workflow to convert biodiversity PDFs as input into Biodiversity PMC</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2024/04/treatmentbank-an-automated-workflow/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:48:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Donat Agosti&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several ELIXIR communities are designing text analytic solutions to perform various data curation tasks. The development of pre-trained and large language models is also helping non expert communities developing successful applications (e.g., triage, named-entity recognition, chatbots, search engines). The span of tasks can be relatively heterogeneous, ranging from well-established and common natural language processing tasks (e.g., named entity recognition, automatic text categorization) up to more complex curation support tasks (e.g., triage or question-answering, bi-directional linking between curated databases and publications). There is also a growing focus on converting and annotating publications, to expand the pool of FAIR data available for downstream tasks, as illustrated by the efforts of the Elixir Data Platform and several node and ELIXIR core data resources (e.g., BioStudies, EuropePMC).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>From Plazi to TaxonWorks</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2024/04/from-plazi-to-taxonworks/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Julia Giora, Donat Agosti&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We plan to share our experiment to use Plazi treament files to get new taxon names into TaxonWorks. Plazi will give us their perspective on what we did and ideas for future collaboration and what they plan to work on in the coming years. New to Plazi? &lt;a href=&#34;https://treatment.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/FFA0AE675753FFF9FFC5FFF1FFA9530C&#34;&gt;See this treatment&lt;/a&gt; for an example of how Plazi gets data out of publications into a format we can take advantage of for uploading to our database(s) via files or the Plazi API.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>15 years of discovering known biodiversity</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/15-years/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>15 years of discovering known biodiversity</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Searching by ecoregions and biomes</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/12/searching-by-ecoregions/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Many of the material citations extracted by Plazi contain geo-coordinates which opens up the way to searching for them by various geographic features along with the non-geographic attributes such as taxa. It is now possible to search for images that are a part of the treatments by ecoregions, biomes and realms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/ecoregions.jpg&#34; width=&#34;960&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Ecoregions, biomes and realms from &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/records/10405991&#34;&gt;Olson, et. al.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/figcaption&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world&#34;&gt;defines terrestrial ecoregions&lt;/a&gt; as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (TEOW) is a biogeographic regionalization of the Earth&amp;rsquo;s terrestrial biodiversity. Our biogeographic units are ecoregions, which are defined as relatively large units of land or water containing a distinct assemblage of natural communities sharing a large majority of species, dynamics, and environmental conditions. … Ecoregions represent the original distribution of distinct assemblages of species and communities.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Harmonizing taxonomic resources is necessary for novel insights into bat roosting dataset</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/harmonizing-taxonomic-resources/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 09:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Aja Sherman&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Engaging the community in FAIR taxonomic data liberation: an overview of training resources at Plazi</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/engaging-the-community-in-fair-data-liberation/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 17:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Julia Giora&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since 2008, swiss-based not-for-profit organization Plazi has been supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To achieve this goal, Plazi makes use of in-house softwares for data mining and extraction from taxonomic publications, along with other partner institution tools and platforms, to liberate data on animals, plants, fungi, and more. In its mission to make taxonomic data FAIRly available to the community, Plazi has developed sets of training material and courses, which enables taxonomists, collection curators, students, technicians and others to participate in the process of taxonomic data liberation. The participation of several different members of the community is key as data requires deep curation, often very specific to a particular field. Most recently, Plazi led a virtual 2-day workshop as part of the MOBILISE ACTION in Europe, along with two 4-day in-person workshops in Brazil and South Africa. Participants are issued certificates which entitle them to extract data on their own, thus multiplying the output of FAIR data using Plazi’s workflow. Here, we present a summary of the current status of said training tools/material, the next steps in development, and how they can help more and more taxonomists, or enthusiasts, liberate data. See &lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sEbOYL44gCSlENWCofvvx7f2hrSWsLHO/view?usp=sharing&#34;&gt;presentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Matching material citations to occurrences: extending the biodiversity knowledge graph</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/matching-material-citations-to-occurrences/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 17:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Donat Agosti&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scholarly publications are the channel to communicate research findings based on the analysis of specimens and their traits. In an open science world, the link to the specimens together with the description of the methods involved should enable us to reproduce the results. Increasingly, taxonomic publications provide a section with structured or even semantically enhanced tables, including persistent digital identifiers of the specimens. These publications can be processed, reformatted as datasets of material citations that can be reused, for example by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). In many cases these are the only representations of species in GBIF, but in other cases they complement specimens that have been submitted as preserved specimens. In this case, the presence of a material citation provides in return access to the knowledge about the specimen, or in other words, extends the biodiversity knowledge graph from a specimen to what is stated in the respective hosting taxonomic treatment, often far beyond by all the links that are embedded in it. Matching can be done automatically but in many cases depends on human curation. For this case a matching service developed with the Swiss eBioDiv and the European funded BiCIKL projects will be explained.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Text Mining and Biodiversity Research Infrastructure</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/text-mining-and-biodiv-ri/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 17:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The scientific knowledge on biodiversity is imprisoned in a daily growing corpus of hundred millions of pages of scientific publications. This knowledge is needed to better understand the dynamics and dimensions of the global biodiversity crisis, to understand the impact of climate change on the distribution of species or to understand the viral spillover from animals to humans. This knowledge is very difficult to access because it is unstructured, in printed formats, including portable data format (PDF), which are difficult to machine operate, or closed access. The power of access to millions of machine actionable articles in &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc&#34;&gt;PMC&lt;/a&gt;, including millions of supplementary data files, or tens of millions of abstracts in PubMed and tools to annotate and mine and discover new facts is obvious. These tools could be used for TDM and annotations of biodiversity literature - but the PMC/PubMed equivalent has not been available for publications in the biodiversity domain, hence the need for a BiodiversityPMC!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The new value of scientific publications in the digital age</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/new-value-of-scientific-pubs/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 17:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Scientific publications are the means by which scientific knowledge is communicated. In botany as well as all biological sciences, each new species discovered is based on at least one publication including a protologue conformant to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. A protologue is based on a standard vocabulary, including a material citation of the type specimen and its hosting institution, generally a figure with the diagnostic characters and a discussion of related species. Increasingly, DNA sequences are cited. The protologues are referenced in subsequent taxonomic treatments, clearly delimited sections of a publications about one particular taxon, and implicit in taxonomic names. Together, these treatments cover the history of the names of the taxon (synonymy), are a very rich source for traits, distribution, and since they are based on physical specimens, an authoritative identification of these specimens. It is assumed that the corpus of biodiversity literature includes a daily growing corpus of 500 million pages, housed in the many libraries of natural history institutions.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Enabling South African scientists to convert taxonomic publications into digitally accessible knowledge</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/training-s-african-scientists/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/training-s-african-scientists/</guid>
      <description>&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/participants.jpg&#34; width=&#34;960&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Group photo of the participants&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/figcaption&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/&#34;&gt;Plazi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sanbi.org/&#34;&gt;SANBI &lt;/a&gt;(South African National Biodiversity Institute) conducted a training Course in Pretoria April 18 to 21, 2023, to teach local scientists how to facilitate the access and reuse of scholarly published taxonomic data by themselves as well as the scientific community at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The course had the participation of 21 researchers, curators, technicians, and Postgraduate students from different South Africa&amp;rsquo;s biodiversity institutions and Nigeria.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Publishing: Extending the biodiversity knowledge graph</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/extending-the-biodiv-knowledge-graph/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 17:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/extending-the-biodiv-knowledge-graph/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;A goal of natural history institutions is contributing to the understanding of biodiversity and disseminating this knowledge by becoming scientific publishers. Through this, they joined the growing field of scholarly publishing established in 1665 by the Journal des sçavans to publish work from the sciences. One of the characteristics of scientific publishing is to cite previous works and thus linking existing knowledge with new discoveries. To provide access to the growing corpus of publications, libraries began to index individual works. With the advent of the digital age, full text search and text and data mining provide access to the content using machines analysing large corpora of works. The development of the semantic web enabled creating a knowledge graph. A typical example is the growth of knowledge related to a species, including synonyms, cited specimens, figures or DNA sequences. During this symposium the state and recent developments of biodiversity publishing, linking and providing increased access to data by &lt;a href=&#34;https://pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Pensoft&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://cetaf.org/&#34;&gt;CETAF&lt;/a&gt;-publishing group, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mnhn.fr/en&#34;&gt;MNHN Paris&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/&#34;&gt;Plazi&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sib.swiss/&#34;&gt;Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics&lt;/a&gt;, including over 50 journals in a semantic enhanced format, and supported by a series of projects (&lt;a href=&#34;https://bicikl-project.eu/&#34;&gt;BiCIKL&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://ebiodiv.org/&#34;&gt;eBioDiv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/&#34;&gt;Arcadia fund&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/metostem-2/&#34;&gt;MétoSTeM&lt;/a&gt;) will be discussed.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The BiCIKL toolbox to link biodiversity data</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/toolbox-to-link-biodiv-data/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 17:34:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/05/toolbox-to-link-biodiv-data/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We will demonstrate tools and infrastructure from the &lt;a href=&#34;https://bicikl-project.eu/&#34;&gt;BiCIKL&lt;/a&gt; project to find and establish links between entities. These include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Infrastructure to create and manage machine actionable persistent identifiers (PIDs) for digital specimens. This allows the creation and annotation of digital specimens as new actionable objects on the internet, which provide a surrogate for physical specimens.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://openbiodiv.net/&#34;&gt;OpenBiodiv&lt;/a&gt; is a linked open data (LOD) knowledge graph extracted from the biodiversity literature. OpenBiodiv can discover hidden links, e.g., between authors, taxa, sequences, material citations, publications and others using general search, SPARQL (query language), user applications and API.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/&#34;&gt;TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt; liberates data from within publications, and converts, enhances, links, stores, and disseminates it as findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data. The API has been enhanced allowing better data linkages through identifiers, matching services, and avenues for annotation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.expasy.org/resources/sibils&#34;&gt;SIBiLS&lt;/a&gt; custom search services provide access to biomedical literature, including PubMed Central (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/&#34;&gt;PMC&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medline/index.html&#34;&gt;MEDLINE&lt;/a&gt;. It also provides access to half a million taxonomic treatments curated by &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/&#34;&gt;Plazi&lt;/a&gt;. BICIKL has helped aggregate more publications, enabling the creation of an all-inclusive “One Health” library, the BiodiversityPMC.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.checklistbank.org/&#34;&gt;ChecklistBank&lt;/a&gt; is an open data repository with a focus on taxonomy and nomenclature. It has tools for name matching, dataset comparison, and for linking taxonomic names from literature.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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      <title>eBioDiv: linking specimens with literature, or to what is known about a specimen</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/03/linking-specimens-with-literature/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:18:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/03/linking-specimens-with-literature/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://ebiodiv.org/&#34;&gt;eBioDiv&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/topics/digitalisation/open-science/programme&#34;&gt;Swissuniversities&lt;/a&gt; funded project by a consortium of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hes-so.ch/en/homepage&#34;&gt;HES-SO&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sib.swiss/&#34;&gt;SIB&lt;/a&gt; (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), Plazi, and the Natural History Museum of Bern (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nmbe.ch/de&#34;&gt;NMBE&lt;/a&gt;) with the goal to build a knowledge infrastructure to bring data in taxonomic literature together with physical specimens digitalized through projects funded by &lt;a href=&#34;https://swisscollnet.scnat.ch/de&#34;&gt;SwissCollNet&lt;/a&gt;. The linking is based on that fact that specimen, the basis of taxonomic works, are cited formally in the publications as material citations. They can be made &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/&#34;&gt;FAIR&lt;/a&gt; (Findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). The eBioDiv &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/posts/2023/02/expanding-the-biodiv-knowledge-graph/&#34;&gt;matching service&lt;/a&gt; allows to discover the cited specimen, especially if the natural history institution uploaded them to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt;. The link furthermore allows to follow-up from a specimen to what is known about it in the published literature. The complementing Horizon Europe funded project Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library &lt;a href=&#34;https://bicikl-project.eu/&#34;&gt;BiCIKL&lt;/a&gt; allows further linking of a specimen to taxonomic names or gene sequences.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Specimen - material citation matching service training course</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/03/specimen-material-citation-matching-service-training-course/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:14:49 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/03/specimen-material-citation-matching-service-training-course/</guid>
      <description>&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/participants.jpg&#34; width=&#34;960&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Participants in the training course&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/figcaption&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plazi’s first online two day training course “&lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/posts/2023/02/expanding-the-biodiv-knowledge-graph/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity and Digital Media: linking material citations in publications to specimens&lt;/a&gt;” organized by Julia Giora and Jonas Castro has successfully ended. The Training school happened online from the 27th to the 28th of February 2023. It is part of a &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/posts/2023/02/expanding-the-biodiv-knowledge-graph/&#34;&gt;series of training courses&lt;/a&gt; in which Plazi expects to teach interested parties how to use data preparation tools to become a data liberator. It was organized in collaborations with the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mobilise-action.eu/&#34;&gt;Mobilise COST Action&lt;/a&gt; – Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections – providing the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mobilise-action.eu/2023/01/24/plazi-mobilise-online-training-school-ts-announcement-27-28-feb-2023/&#34;&gt;Training School&lt;/a&gt; (TS) “&#xA;This hands-on and interactive training initiative gave the opportunity to 20 participants, from 11 countries, and representing 14 institutions of natural history research to get informed and exercised on the accessibility and reuse of taxonomic data using digital platforms and repositories.&#xA;The main theoretical topics addressed were the concept of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data (&lt;a href=&#34;https://force11.org/info/the-fair-data-principles/&#34;&gt;FAIR&lt;/a&gt;) and Plazi workflow, the repositories for taxonomic data, and an outlook on how to convert data from missing publications aiming a future of publishing according to FAIR data requirements. The practical activities were focused on the learning and use of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://prod.ebiodiv.org/&#34;&gt;eBioDiv Matching Service&lt;/a&gt;, with participants linking specimens in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt;) to materials citations extracted from scholarly publications and made available through Plazi&amp;rsquo;s TreatmentBank.&#xA;The development of tools and learning module is co-funded through &lt;a href=&#34;https://bicikl-project.eu/&#34;&gt;BiCIKL&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/&#34;&gt;Arcadia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Expanding the biodiversity knowledge graph</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/02/expanding-the-biodiv-knowledge-graph/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 22:14:49 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/02/expanding-the-biodiv-knowledge-graph/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Discovery of species is based on specimens and communicated through taxonomic treatments described in and presented as parts of scientific publications. In an ideal world, this would allow us to ask questions such as “what is known about this specimen?” or “what does a gene sequence of a cited physical specimen look like?”, and the results would appear immediately on our computer screens in a format suitable for further analysis.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Training course</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/01/training-biodiv-digital-media/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:18:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/01/training-biodiv-digital-media/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This hands-on and interactive training will give students and professionals of natural history institutions an opportunity to get informed about and practice the liberation and reuse of taxonomic data using digital platforms and repositories. Applicants need to &lt;a href=&#34;https://forms.gle/W14eqekgN1NYuB29A&#34;&gt;register online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>DiSSCo Futures 2023.</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/01/dissco-futures/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:57:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2023/01/dissco-futures/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Donat Agosti will participate in this event as part of the closing of the COST Mobilise project.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>TDWG 2022</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/10/tdwg2022/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:57:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/10/tdwg2022/</guid>
      <description>&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;Enabling Published Taxonomic Data to Address the Biodiversity Crisis&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The use-case of Biodiversity Literature Repository and TreatmentBank&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Date and Time:&lt;/b&gt; Oct 17, 2022, 2:00 PM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Abstract:&lt;/b&gt; To understand the loss of species, a benchmark is needed, e.g. the status of biodiversity in 1992 when the Convention on Biological Diversity recognized biodiversity crisis to compare to its status in the successive year. Though we are far from knowning how many species there are on planet Earth, we keep track of their descriptions and number through the information kept in our libraries. Each species discovered is represented therein by at least one taxononic treatment. The library includes an estimated 500 million pages and is updated daily with an estimated 17–18,000 new species annually and over 100,000 treatments augmenting the knowledge of existing species. &lt;a href=&#34;https://biss.pensoft.net/article/91167/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Workshop Day on Open/FAIR Natural History Data</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/09/glamhack-2022/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:54:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/09/glamhack-2022/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstract:&lt;/strong&gt; The Workshop Day on Open/FAIR Natural History Data is intended for curators, managers, and users of natural history collections in Switzerland. It serves as a forum to draw up an overview of the current situation regarding data management and digitization in Swiss institutions and sets the collections and their data in the wider context of the emerging ecosystem of open/FAIR natural history data with its various infrastructures, stakeholders, initiatives, usage scenarios, value-added services, and governance structures.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Taxonomic Treatments as Open FAIR Digital Objects</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/fair-digital-objects/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:11:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/fair-digital-objects/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstract&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taxonomy is the science of charting and describing the worlds biodiversity. Organisms are grouped into taxa which are given a given rank building the taxonomic hierarchy. The taxa are described in taxonomic treatments, well defined sections of scientific publications (Catapano 2019). They include a nomenclatural section and one or more sections including descriptions, material citations referring to studied specimens, or notes ecology and behavior. In case the treatment does not describe a new discovered taxon, previous treatments are cited in the form of treatment citations. This citation can refer to a previous treatment and add additional data, or it can be a statement synonymizing the taxon with another taxon. This allows building a citation network, and ultimately is a constituent part of the catalogue of life. Thus treatments play an important role to understand the diversity of life on Earth by providing the scientific argument why group of organism is a new species, or a synonym, and the data provided will increasingly be important to analyze and compare whole genomes of individual genomes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Publishing Copyright-Free Taxonomic Treatments as New Resources for Biodiversity Research</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/divisive-power/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:48:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/divisive-power/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstract&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Divisive Power of Citizenship, one of our Institute’s SNSF-funded project, concludes this year with its closing international conference on 22/23 September 2022 in Basel, Switzerland. This event will offer a broad platform for debate about citizenship in a global context, addressing scholars working in the fields of Global History, Asian Studies, International Law and Digital Humanities, at a time of terrifying topicality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central themes of discussion will be expat communities in Asia, and civil internment camps during the Second World War in Asia, which have been rarely studied until now. An additional methodological component will investigate the potential of digital methods in this field, which will analyse the impact of access to precise data at scale relating to networks of foreign residents—addressing interferences with citizenship, statelessness and denaturalisation. The conference will also form the launch for new data resources which have been created during the course of the project, covering Foreign Residents in East Asia between 1863 and 1941.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>400 Years of Botanical Collections – Implications for Present-Day Research</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/400-years-of-botanical-collections/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:45:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/400-years-of-botanical-collections/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstract&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bauhin’s pioneering Flora of Basel „Catalogus Plantarum circa Basileam sponte nascentium“ exactly 400 years ago is a precursor to the artificially identified beginning of taxonomic publishing with Linnaeus Systema plantarum … 1753. Indeed, botanical publishing existed far before Linnaeus’, however his contribution has not only been the Latin Binomen, but the highly structured way he published the taxonomic treatments for each species, and to cite previous works. In the digital age, this kind of structuring of the information and the existing implicit citation links allows building the biodiversity knowledge graph, opening up the entire corpus of taxonomic treatments imprisoned in publications by providing it in a format that can be found and reused, cited and linked to data referenced in the publications. This provides access to all the published data about a specimen in a natural history collection, to trace back the history of a taxonomic name or the traits used to describe and deliminit the species. The Swiss based Biodiversity Literature Repository and TreatmentBank provide access to over 750,000 taxonomic treatments, over 1M material citations and are the largest data set provider to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This highly automated workflow has and continues to liberate data from over 70,000 publications, which are further converted to RDF and structured into Linked Open Data via the OpenBiodiv Biodiversity Knowledge Graph. At the same time new ways to structure publications so that their resident data can immediately be reused upon publication are being developed in collaboration with Pensoft publishers, the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Paris and the CETAF publishing group. The Swiss NGO Plazi, Zenodo at CERN and SIBiLS at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics are involved in the EU Horizon 2020 project BiCIKL and the Swissuniversities funded project eBioDiv to develop ways to link data in publications to specimens, taxonomic names and genes and vice versa. This lecture will explain the concept and state of the art in taxonomic publishing, access and reuse of its data.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>What do we not know – quantifying data gaps and biases in knowledge of bat co-roosting</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/what-we-dont-know/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:48:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/08/what-we-dont-know/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Improved understanding of co-habitation of roosts by multiple species of bats is essential for estimating the risks of zoonotic disease transmission. However, ecological data on roosting environments, species richness, bat-bat interactions, viral infections, and other species interactions are scattered throughout the literature, making them difficult to study on a global scale. The research scope for most roost studies has been narrow, focusing on roost type, bat abundance, and locality data while failing to investigate interspecific roosting interactions. To meet this need, we have collaboratively built an open-access dataset of ecological interactions (including co-roosting, trophic, anthropogenic, and parasitic) extracted from the literature to improve our understanding of roost dynamics on a global scale, and to elucidate the role of shared roosts in disease transmission. As of April 2022, &amp;gt; 11,500 interaction records involving &amp;gt; 360 bat species from &amp;gt; 137 countries encompassing a variety of habitats have been extracted from &amp;gt; 175 publications spanning from 1860-2020, all accessible via the Coronavirus-Host community at Zenodo. With this benchmark dataset of open-access digitized interaction data, tools, and workflows, we provide evidence of co-roosting events that we aligned with multiple ontologies (interaction terms, taxonomies, administrative regions) and phylogenies suitable for high-throughput analysis We followed open access and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles for extracting data and choosing methodologies. We identify biases in the coverage of bat interaction records, suggest new tools for biodiversity informatics, and explore obstacles and opportunities in the mining of eco-interactions previously lost in the annals of scientific literature.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Biodiversity Literature Repository — Open By Design</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/05/blr-open-by-design/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 20:45:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/05/blr-open-by-design/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Open Definition version 2.1 prescribes four conditions for openness of a work &amp;ndash;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it must be published under an open license or be in the public domain,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it must be accessible easily and at no more than the cost of reproduction, preferably be downloadable via the internet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it must be readily readable by a computer, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it must be available in an open format.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear that openness is not just a matter of sticking an open license. Openness has to be a fundamental goal and part of the design. This becomes all the more important for complicated endeavors such as scientific data that need to exist in a stable form far into the future (&amp;ldquo;forever&amp;rdquo;). At Plazi we have been extracting data from biodiversity literature and making it FAIR and open for more than a decade. To do this, we have built (or helped build) the tools, the procedures, the repositories, the standards, and the partnerships to extract, clean, archive and disseminate data for perpetuity. &lt;a href=&#34;https://punkish.org/Biodiversity-Literature-Repository/&#34;&gt;In this presentation&lt;/a&gt; we will share our experience building a lasting research infrastructure that is open by design.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Arcadia supports Plazi in its endeavor to rediscover known biodiversity</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/05/arcadia-fund-supports-plazi/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2022 13:25:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/05/arcadia-fund-supports-plazi/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Swiss-based &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org&#34;&gt;Plazi&lt;/a&gt; NGO has received a grant of EUR 1.5 million from &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/&#34;&gt;Arcadia&lt;/a&gt; – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to further develop its &lt;a href=&#34;https://biolitrepo.org/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR)&lt;/a&gt; established in collaboration with &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/&#34;&gt;Zenodo&lt;/a&gt;, the open science repository hosted and managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and the open-access scholarly publisher and technology provider &lt;a href=&#34;https://pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Pensoft&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952793&#34;&gt;Eurekalert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/hero.jpg&#34; width=&#34;960&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;&#xA;        &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Figure left:&lt;/b&gt; A figure extracted from a scholarly article and made accessible via BLR. The image in preview mode can be downloaded inclusive of source in the metadata. Visible are links to other data elements from the article citing the figure, the source publication, a machine readable license and download alternatives. A deposit of a figure extracted from a scholarly article and made accessible via the Biodiversity Literature Repository. The image in preview mode can be downloaded inclusive of source in the metadata. On the right, there are links to other data elements from the article citing the figure, the source publication, a machine readable license and alternatives to download the data. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.253091&#34;&gt;DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.253091&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Einen Einblick und Einstieg in die versteckte Vielfalt der 2021 publizierten Hymenopteren</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/schweizer-hymenopterologen-tagung/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:55:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/schweizer-hymenopterologen-tagung/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QSdEGwgAIH2_ntZ4sHtMRE26-PTeLF9r/view?usp=sharing&#34;&gt;Program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5916757&#34;&gt;Presentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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      <title>Liberation of data from taxonomic treatments</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/world-biodiversity-forum/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:50:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/world-biodiversity-forum/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Donat Agosti will present &lt;a href=&#34;https://wbf2022.abstractserver.com/program/#/details/presentations/173&#34;&gt;Beyond the Print and PDF Prison: Data About Biodiveristy Want to be Free&lt;/a&gt;, showcasing Plazi’s groundbreaking approach to the liberation of data from taxonomic treatments within scholarly publications at the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.worldbiodiversityforum.org/en/welcome-to-wbf-2022&#34;&gt;World Biodiversity Forum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abstract:&lt;/strong&gt; Most of what scientists discovered about biodiversity and published, totaling a corpus of an estimated 500 million printed pages stacked up in our libraries  and more recently, in digital format, is not known. It is an amount of information that can not be processed by humans, but even machines can’t cope with it because the publications are either not scanned, or are behind paywalls, or in formats that machines can’t read at scale. It is a tragedy that in this digital age we can’t make use of this data.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Nothing in (taxonomic) publishing makes sense</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/spnhc/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:48:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/spnhc/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Donat Agosti will provide the lecture &lt;em&gt;Nothing in (taxonomic) publishing makes sense except in the light of treatments&lt;/em&gt; at the conference of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://spnhc2022.com/about/&#34;&gt;Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of taxonomic literature is to describe taxonomic diversity as a result of charting the Earth&amp;rsquo;s biological diversity. As research adds to our knowledge, our understanding of taxa increases with additional published results. This is how it has happened since the standard publications by Linnaeus in 1753 and 1758 in the format of taxonomic treatments, clearly delimited sections of text about a particular taxon. Later, material citations were added, providing an explicit link to the material that led to the published research result. Each treatment has a nomenclatural section including the referenced taxonomic name representing the usage of a specific citable name. Thus, the taxonomic name Apis mellifera L, 1758 refers to the taxonomic treatment published by Linnaeus 1758 on page 576. Later usage of the name cites this treatment thereby adding new research to the scientific corpus.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Discovering Known Biodiversity</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/empowering-biodiversity/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:45:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/empowering-biodiversity/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We will take you on a journey into the world of biodiversity data standards and tools and will inform you on the latest developments in the world of Biodiversity Informatics, both internationally and locally. What is the state of the art in initiatives like GBIF, LifeWatch and DiSSCo, etc and how can we let them work for us? We have invited some very interesting international speakers and will inform you on the progress made by these projects in Belgium. During this conference we will build a bridge between Biodiversity informatics and its older relative “Bioinformatics” and investigate what a crossover of these two worlds can bring to Biodiversity Research. Genomic information meets digital taxonomy!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Plazi Mission</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/mission/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:59:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/mission/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Plazi is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 to promote the free accessibility of scientific data, in particular taxonomic treatments and images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;what-are-taxonomic-treatments&#34;&gt;What are taxonomic treatments?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A taxonomic treatment is the scientific description of a biological species, i.e. an animal species, a plant species, a fungus or a bacterium. If, for example, an unknown animal species is discovered today, a single individual of this species is selected, the so-called holotype. The species is then given a name that has not been used before and formed according to predefined rules, it is described scientifically and the description is published. The holotype is the ultimate reference specimen.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Was macht Plazi?</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/mission-de/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 11:59:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/mission-de/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Plazi ist eine 2008 gegründete Non-Profit-Organisation, die sich für die freie Zugänglichkeit wissenschaftlicher Daten, insbesondere taxonomischer Treatments und Bilder, einsetzt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;was-sind-taxonomische-treatments&#34;&gt;Was sind taxonomische Treatments?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ein taxonomisches Treatment ist die wissenschaftliche Beschreibung einer biologischen Art, also einer Tierart, einer Pflanzenart, eines Pilzes oder eines Bakteriums. Wird heute beispielsweise eine noch nicht bekannte Tierart entdeckt, so wird ein einzelnes Individuum dieser Art ausgewählt , der sogenannte Holotype. Die Art wird dann mit einem bisher nicht verwendeten, nach vorgegebenen Regeln gebildeten Namen bezeichnet, sie wird wissenschaftlich beschrieben und die Beschreibung publiziert. Der Holotype ist dabei das gültige Referenzexemplar.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Access to taxonomic treatments mentioned in press releases</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/access-to-data-in-press-releases/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:14:49 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2022/01/access-to-data-in-press-releases/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;At year-end, it is common to review the past year’s highlights as we (Plazi) too did, &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/posts/2021/12/new-species-2021/&#34;&gt;highlighting a few of the almost 9000 species discovered in 2021&lt;/a&gt;. A few of the world&amp;rsquo;s leading taxonomic institutions did so as well with their recent discoveries. Since we are interested in not just finding about the species discovered but also learning more in detail about them, we decided to test how easy it was to locate their original taxonomic treatments in the scientific papers that described the species mentioned in the press releases.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>New Species of 2021</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/12/new-species-2021/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:40:51 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/12/new-species-2021/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In 2021 Plazi provided access to the taxonomic treatments and figures of 8848 new species, 647 new genera and 27 new families discovered as part of 11391 changes in taxonomic status in 2021, published in 4420 articles from 95 journals. Here we present a small selection of 12 spectacular species with links to their complete taxonomic treatment. Since we can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; protect what we know, we want people to have free access to taxonomic data, always and everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Annotating genes sequences with data from herbarium sheets and publications</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/annotating-gene-sequences/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 21:40:51 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/annotating-gene-sequences/</guid>
      <description>&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/published-table.jpg&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;&#xA;    Figure 1: A snapshot of a published table showing the GenBank accession numbers and localities for the 507 individuals representing 61 species of Cladocera and 19 of Copepoda used in this study. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1839.1.1&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1839.1.1&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/figcaption&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/extracted-table.jpg&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;&#xA;    Figure 2: The same table as in Figure 1 extracted by TreatmentBank. Full table available in &lt;a href=&#34;https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/tables/DF5F662FDF03FF92C1D7FF03FCA45EB2?format=HTML&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;HTML&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/tables/DF5F662FDF03FF92C1D7FF03FCA45EB2?format=JSON&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;JSON&lt;/a&gt; formats.&#xA;    &lt;/figcaption&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking molecular data to taxonomic names and their extensive taxonomic treatments represents a fundamental component in biodiversity assessment. Voucher specimens for sequenced data can be the key nodes to make these connections.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;— &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/elixir-europe/bioHackathon-projects-2021/tree/main/projects/15&#34;&gt;Project 15, Biohackathon 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Behind New Species Swiss-Made</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/behind-new-species-swiss-made/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:35:19 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/behind-new-species-swiss-made/</guid>
      <description>&lt;figure&gt;&#xA;    &lt;img src=&#34;img/ebiodiv-first-look-processing.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;eBioDiv data liberation processing&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;figcaption&gt;e-BioDiv: processing data liberation&lt;/figcaption&gt;&#xA;&lt;/figure&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At today’s meeting of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://portal-cdn.scnat.ch/asset/4928d07d-53fe-59de-bbcf-463664a8a59a/Program%20SSSDay2021.pdf?b=25b8a4f9-7e85-5674-b05d-4571993988c3&amp;amp;v=01d816a3-4096-5079-adfe-684569ed9582_0&amp;amp;s=d9RZgAdsGUEetwPluJ-oURuGw5qLaefoeQUESYSd84S-I3A3ytMrGJCs6k3Y1BqjebskyyMkJ-mqF1BySozm0OMhcvAYlwG6x0yOK76iGixqf7yIk-NVXuzczTO-Uj7rIMy6sZ6WyeOLPRUW0CdudG4VfJyWDsxN5oWP7BagK8k&#34;&gt;Swiss Systematics Society&lt;/a&gt;, the species of the year — &lt;a href=&#34;https://swiss-systematics.ch/en/new_species_swiss_made_2021&#34;&gt;a species discovered and described by a Swiss scientist&lt;/a&gt; — will be selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently 89 species have been listed out of 31 publications, of which 69% are open access and 31% closed access, and the &lt;em&gt;Revue Suisse de Zoologie&lt;/em&gt; is the most prolific journal. New species are hardly ever the only taxonomic treatment of a publication. This is shown by the 314 treatments contained within these publications.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Biohackthon Europe</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/biohackathon-europe/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:07:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/biohackathon-europe/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Plazi will participate in the &lt;a href=&#34;https://biohackathon-europe.org/index.html&#34;&gt;Biohackthon Europe&lt;/a&gt;. Each November ELIXIR organizes BioHackathon Europe, which brings together bioinformaticians from around the world. The event takes place in different locations around Europe. The BioHackathon offers an intense week of hacking, with over 160 international participants who work on diverse and exciting projects. The week starts with a half-day symposium to introduce these projects, and is followed by five days of hacking with one sole aim: coding to address problems in bioinformatics.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>SSSDay Q&amp;A</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/sssday-2021/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:03:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/11/sssday-2021/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Plazi will participate in the &lt;a href=&#34;https://portal-cdn.scnat.ch/asset/4928d07d-53fe-59de-bbcf-463664a8a59a/Program%20SSSDay2021.pdf?b=25b8a4f9-7e85-5674-b05d-4571993988c3&amp;amp;v=01d816a3-4096-5079-adfe-684569ed9582_0&amp;amp;s=d9RZgAdsGUEetwPluJ-oURuGw5qLaefoeQUESYSd84S-I3A3ytMrGJCs6k3Y1BqjebskyyMkJ-mqF1BySozm0OMhcvAYlwG6x0yOK76iGixqf7yIk-NVXuzczTO-Uj7rIMy6sZ6WyeOLPRUW0CdudG4VfJyWDsxN5oWP7BagK8k&#34;&gt;SSSDay&lt;/a&gt; organised by the &lt;a href=&#34;https://swiss-systematics.ch/en/events/sss_day&#34;&gt;Swiss Systematics Society&lt;/a&gt; (SSS) to answer questions regarding the Swiss universities funded eBiodiv project and the EU Horizon 2020 funded &lt;a href=&#34;https://bicikl-project.eu/&#34;&gt;BiCIKL&lt;/a&gt; project. The event is hosted by the &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.zoologie.vd.ch/actuellement/&#34;&gt;Musée de Zoologie Lausanne&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://portal-cdn.scnat.ch/asset/4928d07d-53fe-59de-bbcf-463664a8a59a/Program%20SSSDay2021.pdf?b=25b8a4f9-7e85-5674-b05d-4571993988c3&amp;amp;v=01d816a3-4096-5079-adfe-684569ed9582_0&amp;amp;s=d9RZgAdsGUEetwPluJ-oURuGw5qLaefoeQUESYSd84S-I3A3ytMrGJCs6k3Y1BqjebskyyMkJ-mqF1BySozm0OMhcvAYlwG6x0yOK76iGixqf7yIk-NVXuzczTO-Uj7rIMy6sZ6WyeOLPRUW0CdudG4VfJyWDsxN5oWP7BagK8k&#34;&gt;Schedule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Liberating material citations as a 1st step to better data</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/10/liberation-first-step-toward-quality/</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2021 14:29:20 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2021/10/liberation-first-step-toward-quality/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Our colleague Prof. Roderick Page recently &lt;a href=&#34;https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2021/10/problems-with-plazi-parsing-how.html&#34;&gt;wrote about quality issues&lt;/a&gt; with the data we are extracting from scientific literature and making available for anyone to use anywhere for any purpose. We are thankful for Rod&amp;rsquo;s insightful and helpful criticism. In this post (and several others to come), we explain material citations and other data that we extract, address the data quality issues — why they exist, what we are doing about them — and why the extracted data are still important and useful despite the inherent errors.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MaterialCitation accepted as a new TDWG Darwin Core standard</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/materialcitation-accepted-as-a-new-term/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/materialcitation-accepted-as-a-new-term/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;On August 25, the &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/posts/materialcitation-submitted-as-a-new-term/&#34;&gt;new term request&lt;/a&gt; by Plazi for a new term for “a reference to or citation of one, a part of, or multiple specimens in scholarly publications” went through the public review process and resulted in the &lt;a href=&#34;https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_MaterialCitation&#34;&gt;ratified term&lt;/a&gt; and in the &lt;a href=&#34;https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#materialcitation&#34;&gt;Quick Reference Guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original term name materialCitation has been changed to follow Darwin Core convention of using upper camel case for Class names.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Connecting the world of biodiversity data</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/tdwg-2021-virtual-annual-conference/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:03:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/tdwg-2021-virtual-annual-conference/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As we continue to connect people and biodiversity data globally by virtual means in these globally uncertain times, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2021/&#34;&gt;TDWG 2021&lt;/a&gt; will be composed of symposia, workshops, contributed oral and poster presentations, demos, and discussions, as well as keynotes and social events. The Interest/Task Group working sessions will be held separately during the month following the virtual conference (November 2021). &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2021/session-list/&#34;&gt;TDWG Symposia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17J5T0QdATdnrXgHWhguMErlSrfMo59qOCbss-R5whEU/edit#gid=1817747157&#34;&gt;TDWG Schedule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;oct-20-830pm-cet-sym18-discovering-known-biodiversity-digital-accessible-knowledge&#34;&gt;Oct 20, 8:30PM CET SYM18 Discovering known biodiversity: Digital accessible knowledge&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Session Type:&lt;/strong&gt; Symposium (no unsolicited presentations considered)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Progress with improving preservation and reuse of scientific research data</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/digital-preservation-conference/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:03:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/digital-preservation-conference/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;We report progress towards automatically transforming existing analyses of scientific literature into annotations based on W3C&amp;rsquo;s Web Annotation Data Model (WADM). Case studies are presented from the life sciences, and social sciences and humanities, in which these developments have led to the creation of new unrestricted data services for the research community. We discuss the cross- domain potential of annotation infrastructure for releasing scientific facts reported in research literature from copyright restrictions, and demonstrate the utility of common standards-based preservation and discovery methods in disparate activities. We suggest that scientific treatments of literature using WADM annotation can lead to new mechanisms for access to and reuse of research data, and accelerate convergence with the FAIR Principles.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Hindsight is 20x20000</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/hindsight-is-20x20000/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/hindsight-is-20x20000/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/workflow.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Workflow&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three years ago we set off on a journey, guided by a philosophy that scientific data trapped in scholarly articles should be free, powered by the creativity and hardwork of a small team scattered around the globe, and supported by &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/&#34;&gt;Arcadia&lt;/a&gt; that decided to invest in our vision. Earlier this month we completed that journey, by all measures, a success. We liberated more data than we set out to liberate, we ended up with more partners than we started with, and we empowered more publications and publishers than three years ago. Data liberated by us is already being used by scientists to ask and answer new questions, to pursue new science – a true scientific data lifecycle in constant motion.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Digital Accessible Knowledge</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/digital-accessible-knowledge/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/digital-accessible-knowledge/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://biss.pensoft.net/article/75491/&#34;&gt;Digital Accessible Knowledge&lt;/a&gt;, in the context of Plazi, describes data fit for use to understand the global biodiversity, to create a list of all known species on planet Earth, data that is machine-actionable and ready for use by anybody, anyhwere at any time.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>eBiodiv Launch</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/launch-ebiodiv/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:03:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/launch-ebiodiv/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;At the Naturhistorisches Museum in Bern.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>BHL and Plazi partnership</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/bhl-and-plazi-partnership/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:02:17 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/bhl-and-plazi-partnership/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/bhl-plazi.png&#34; alt=&#34;BHL and Plazi&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/&#34;&gt;BHL&lt;/a&gt; and Plazi have agreed to collaborate to create a workflow from existing literature to liberate digital accessible data to its&#xA;reuse in &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt;. This includes the following steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find, digitize, and provide access to biodiversity-related documents&#xA;with basic metadata and scanned images for each and every page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Text recognition that allows efficient conversion and processing&#xA;downstream&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide access at publication level, including standard, citable URLs from&#xA;the scholarly communication ecosystem (e.g. CrossRef DOIs, DataCite&#xA;DOIs)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conversion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;into generic JATS XML or TEI including figures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;into PDFs with included text and stable URLs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&#34;5&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liberate data from these biodiversity-related documents; identify,&#xA;semantically enhance, and link with external resources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Names entities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constituent text sections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Figures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tables&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bibliographic references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&#34;6&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create and publish FAIR data on Zenodo, or other repositories&#xA;with the same capabilities, particularly those providing access&#xA;enabling reuse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interact with targeted reuser of data for data and visualization&#xA;improvements (eg. GBIF, openBioDiv)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/file/d/15QbYAuOyGkpS68YWlfpj0rdsZrl_oTWA/view&#34;&gt;More about the partnership&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Data and Statistics</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/data-and-statistics/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/data-and-statistics/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;treatment-statistics-and-article-statistics&#34;&gt;Treatment Statistics and Article Statistics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PQASI6pYETcwG3dXMu7zJ6iqkHBBKUeUX6pBjZEWIsk/edit#&#34;&gt;Introduction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an analysis and mining tool for the data contained in TreatmentBank. Access is provided at article and treatment level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Select fields, explore and download Plazi &lt;a href=&#34;http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/srsStats&#34;&gt;treatment&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/dioStats&#34;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; data and statistics in multiple formats. Selected fields turn from gray to green. Data on all materials (cited specimens) are available through the “Materials Citations Data” domain; these data are summarized by treatment in the “Materials Data” domain. Select the relevant operation (e.g., show individual values, count distinct values, count all values, minimum value, maximum value) for each selected field. The “Get Statistics” button runs the selected query. You can save the results using one of the links indicating desired format. It may be useful to choose an appropriate file name and add an extension to the file (e.g., .csv for comma separated values).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Desktop data mining and extraction</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/desktop-data-mining/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/desktop-data-mining/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;goldengate-editor-versions&#34;&gt;GoldenGATE editor versions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The GoldenGATE Document Editor is a visual editor for marking up documents in XML. It is designed to do most of the markup automatically; manual work is reduced to correcting the output of automated components. For these corrections, there are many specialized dialogs and document views, which display the required information in a concise fashion and provide high-level assistance to the user. In addition, the editor provides assistance for editing and marking up documents manually. A flexible, plug-in-based software architecture allows for quickly integrating new components, and for deploying upgrades of existing ones. This is not restricted to components for automated markup and document views, but also comprises handling of different data formats, and different types of data storage, e.g. the local file system, databases, and web-based data providers.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Golden Gate</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/golden-gate/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/golden-gate/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Golden Gate is a family of software including a server, an editor, a web-based editor, and web-services. Golden Gate uses the &lt;a href=&#34;image-markup-file/&#34;&gt;Image Markup File (IMF)&lt;/a&gt; format for data storage, archival and exchange.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Image Markup File (IMF)</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/image-markup-file/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/image-markup-file/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/imf.png&#34; alt=&#34;Image Markup File&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Image Markup File (IMF) is a file format used to store and exchange annotations made to a PDF reliably. IMF is an open source format. The file is based on a star schema with a series of CSV, PNG and the source file enclosed in a .ZIP file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMF can be created, opened with the open source editor GoldenGate, from where the parts can be exported as XML, or Darwin Core Archives or uploaded to TreatmentBank.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Ocellus</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/ocellus/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/ocellus/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/thumb1.png&#34; alt=&#34;thumbnail 1&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&#34;img/thumb2.png&#34; alt=&#34;thumbnail 2&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&#34;img/thumb3.png&#34; alt=&#34;thumbnail 3&#34;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&#34;img/thumb4.jpeg&#34; alt=&#34;thumbnail 4&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://ocellus.info&#34;&gt;Ocellus&lt;/a&gt; is a frontend to the Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) community with images on Zenodo, taxonomic treatments in TreatmentBank, and citations on RefBank. Ocellus depends on &lt;a href=&#34;../zenodeo/&#34;&gt;Zenodeo&lt;/a&gt;, a nodejs API that queries, analyzes and aggregates results from these various repositories via a single, unified interface.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Schemas and Ontologies</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/schemas-and-ontologies/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/schemas-and-ontologies/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;taxpub&#34;&gt;TaxPub&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/plazi/TaxPub/&#34;&gt;TaxPub&lt;/a&gt; is an extension to the U.S. National Library of Medicine/National Center for Biotechnology Information Journal Article XML Document Type Definition (DTD) providing domain-specific markup for taxonomic information in articles published in the area of biological systematics. TaxPub is described in detall in the article &lt;em&gt;TaxPub: An Extension of the NLM/NCBI Journal Publishing DTD for Taxonomic Descriptions&lt;/em&gt;. See also &lt;a href=&#34;https://taxpub.catapanoth.com/v1-pre/documentation/&#34;&gt;TaxPub Documentation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the following journals use TaxPub:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://bdj.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Data Journal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://compcytogen.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Cytogenetics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://dez.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://ijm.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;International Journal of Myriapodology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://jhr.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Journal of Hymenoptera Research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://mycokeys.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Mycokeys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://natureconservation.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Nature Conservation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://neobiota.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Neobiota&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://nl.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Nota Lepidopterologica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://phytokeys.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Phytokeys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://subtbiol.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Subterranean Biology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://zookeys.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Zookeys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://zse.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Zoosystematics and Evolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;taxonx&#34;&gt;TaxonX&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taxonx is a XML schema for encoding taxonomic literature in order to&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Source Code</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/source-code/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/source-code/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/plazi/treatmentBank&#34;&gt;TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/gsautter?tab=repositories&#34;&gt;GoldenGATE and related software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/plazi/TaxPub&#34;&gt;TaxPub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/punkish/ocellus&#34;&gt;Ocellus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/punkish/zenodeo&#34;&gt;Zenodeo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/factsmission/synospecies&#34;&gt;Synospecies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/plazi/synolib&#34;&gt;Synolib&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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      <title>Synospecies</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/synospecies/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/synospecies/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://synospecies.plazi.org/&#34;&gt;SynoSpecies&lt;/a&gt; is a tool developed by FactsMission AG to leverage the RDF data provided by Plazi. The RDF data of all treatments is stored in an AllegroGraph triple store allowing SPARQL queries over the data. Synospecies allows manually writing and submitting such queries in the advanced mode and send such queries in the background when using the easier interface.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>What is a Treatment?</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/what-treatment/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/what-treatment/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/treatment.png&#34; alt=&#34;Treatment&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Plazi TreatmentBank deals with scientific, published, biosystematic literature documenting and describing all the world’s ca 1.9 Million known species in an estimated corpus of more than 500 Million published pages. The cited publications in Plazi are all available at the Biodiversity Literature Repository at Zenodo/CERN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Treatments are well-defined parts of articles that describe the particular usage of a scientific name by an author at the time of the publication. In other words, each scientific name has one or more treatments, depending on whether there exists only an original description of a species, or there are subsequent re-descriptions. Similar to bibliographic references, treatments can be cited, and subsequent usages of names cite earlier treatments.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Zenodeo</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/zenodeo/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/zenodeo/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://test.zenodeo.org&#34;&gt;Zenodeo&lt;/a&gt; is a nodejs-based REST API to CERN&amp;rsquo;s Zenodo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;widget-search widget&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;form class=&#34;widget-search__form&#34; role=&#34;search&#34; method=&#34;get&#34; action=&#34;&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;label&gt;&#xA;            &lt;input class=&#34;searchInput&#34; type=&#34;search&#34; placeholder=&#34;query Zenodeo…&#34; value=&#34;&#34; id=&#34;q&#34; name=&#34;q&#34; aria-label=&#34;query Zenodeo…&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;/label&gt;&#xA;        &lt;input id=&#34;searchBtn&#34; class=&#34;searchBtn&#34; type=&#34;submit&#34; value=&#34;Search&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/form&gt;&#xA;    &lt;div id=&#34;search_results&#34;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    const search = function(e) {&#xA;        const q = document.getElementById(&#39;q&#39;)&#xA;        const search_results = document.getElementById(&#39;search_results&#39;)&#xA;&#xA;        fetch(`https://test.zenodeo.org/v3/treatments?q=${q.value}`)&#xA;            .then(function(response) {&#xA;                if (!response.ok) {&#xA;                    throw new Error(&#39;HTTP error, status = &#39; + response.status);&#xA;                }&#xA;&#xA;                return response.json();&#xA;            })&#xA;            .then(function(response) {&#xA;                search_results.innerHTML = `&lt;h2&gt;Zenodeo search results&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;${JSON.stringify(response, null, 4)}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;`&#xA;            })&#xA;&#xA;        e.stopPropagation()&#xA;        e.preventDefault()&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    window.onload = function(e) {&#xA;        const searchBtn = document.getElementById(&#39;searchBtn&#39;)&#xA;        searchBtn.addEventListener(&#39;click&#39;, search)&#xA;    }()&#xA;&lt;/script&gt;</description>
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      <title>Contact</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/contact/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:45 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/contact/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;For questions, suggestions, contributions, please contact us via &lt;!-- raw HTML omitted --&gt;email&lt;!-- raw HTML omitted --&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Pardosa zyuzini, Kronestedt, Torbjörn &amp; Marusik, Yuri M., 2011</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/treatment-example/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:45 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/treatment-example/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h1&gt;Dashboard Here&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Taxonomy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Distribution Map&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Specimens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Downloads&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Version History&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/8F39FF8A1E18FF9AFFF6FFB2FFEC6749&#34;&gt;Kronestedt, Torbjörn &amp;amp; Marusik, Yuri M., 2011, Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VII. The Pardosa tesquorum group, Zootaxa 3131, pp. 1-34&lt;/a&gt;: 25-28&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;table&gt;&#xA;  &lt;thead&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;th style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;scientific name&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;          &lt;th style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;Pardosa zyuzini&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;  &lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;status&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;sp. nov.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;publication ID&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.399649&#34;&gt;http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.399649&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;persistent identifier&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://treatment.plazi.org/id/730087F2-1E00-FF81-FF61-FC34FDA561A5&#34;&gt;http://treatment.plazi.org/id/730087F2-1E00-FF81-FF61-FC34FDA561A5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;      &lt;tr&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;treatment provided by&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;          &lt;td style=&#34;text-align: left&#34;&gt;Plazi (2016-04-12 02:05:59, last updated by Leidenlab19 2019-12-06 14:06:18)&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;treatment&#34;&gt;Treatment&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pardosa zyuzini sp. nov.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Figs 7 –8, 22–23, 28, 31, 94– 106, 116&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Biodiversity Literature Repository</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/biolit-repo/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/biolit-repo/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://biolitrepo.org/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR)&lt;/a&gt; is a Zenodo-community to share publications related to bio-systematics. It has been initiated by Plazi, &lt;a href=&#34;http://pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Pensoft&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/&#34;&gt;Zenodo&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&#34;https://home.cern/&#34;&gt;CERN&lt;/a&gt;.Its goal is to provide open access to publications cited in publications or in combination with scientific names and to provide in collaboration with Zenodo a digital object identifier (DOI) to the publications to enable citation of the publications, including direct access to its digital representation. Its focus is on thematic corpora, such as particular taxonomic groups, eg. ants, projects  or research journals. Illustrations or subarticle elements can be uploaded. Plazi provides a service to convert back issues into semantically enhanced documents and to disseminate taxonomic treatments through &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/resources/treatmentbank/&#34;&gt;TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt;. BLR offers journals to obtain DOIs for their new issues. Currently, the following journals joined the BLR community and use Zenodo DataCite DOIs:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>BioWikiFarm</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/biowikifarm/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/biowikifarm/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://biowikifarm.net/meta/&#34;&gt;Biowikifarm&lt;/a&gt; is a shared technical platform supporting a number of mediawiki installations used by a large number projects in biological research for open content publishing. The primary purpose of the shared platform is to be able to maintain the published data and information in a long term sustainable way, to work more efficiently and distribute administrative and maintenance work among several partners. Furthermore, the biowikifarm operates a shared media repository, enabling synergies in re-using media content.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Disclaimer</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/disclaimer/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/disclaimer/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The website &lt;a href=&#34;&#34;&gt;plazi.org&lt;/a&gt; is provided by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donat Agosti&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Specialist for taxonomic literature&lt;br&gt;&#xA;President Plazi&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Director Plazi GmbH&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Email: &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:info@plazi.org&#34;&gt;info@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Limitation of liability for internal content&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The content of our website has been compiled with meticulous care and to the best of our knowledge. However, we cannot assume any liability for the up-to-dateness, completeness or accuracy of any of the pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Limitation of liability for external links&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our website contains links to the websites of third parties (“external links”). As the content of these websites is not under our control, we cannot assume any liability for such external content. In all cases, the provider of information of the linked websites is liable for the content and accuracy of the information provided. At the point in time when the links were placed, no infringements of the law were recognisable to us. As soon as an infringement of the law becomes known to us, we will immediately remove the link in question.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Feeds</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/resources/feeds/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/resources/feeds/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Plazi offers RSS feeds for extracted treatments and updates via Twitter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notification&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/html.rss.xml&#34;&gt;RSS-feed (html)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/xml.rss.xml&#34;&gt;RSS-feed (XML)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Twitter&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/plazi_treat&#34;&gt;Plazi Treatment Repo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://twitter.com/plazi_ch&#34;&gt;Plazi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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      <title>Privacy</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/privacy/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/privacy/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This privacy policy sets out how Plazi uses and protects any information that you give Plazi” when you use this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plazi is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plazi may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>RefBank</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/refbank/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/refbank/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://refbank.org&#34;&gt;RefBank&lt;/a&gt; is a website where you can search for bibliographic references. No registration is required (everyone can upload and edit). Results can be converted in different styles and formats. It serves as the “dirty bucket” of references and source for “clean buckets” such as the references in the &lt;a href=&#34;http://biolitrepo.org/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>ReFindit</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/refindit/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/refindit/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://refindit.org/&#34;&gt;ReFindit&lt;/a&gt; provides an easy search function, based on a simple interface, which also collates and sorts the results from the search engines for presentation to the user to read and with the option to refine the results presented or submit a new search.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Schemas and Ontologies</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/resources/schema-and-ontologies/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/resources/schema-and-ontologies/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;taxpub&#34;&gt;TaxPub&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TaxPub is an extension to the U.S. National Library of Medicine/National Center for Biotechnology Information Journal Article XML Document Type Definition (DTD) providing domain-specific markup for taxonomic information in articles published in the area of biological systematics. &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/resources/taxpub/&#34;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;taxonx&#34;&gt;TaxonX&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taxonx is a XML schema for encoding legacy taxonomic literature in order to identify taxonomic treatments and lover level textual data such as  scientific names, localities, morphological characters, and bibliographic citations.  &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/resources/taxonx/&#34;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Bibliography of Life</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/resources/bol/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/resources/bol/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Bibliography of Life (BoL) is a contribution towards building a reference bibliography for biodiversity with direct citable, open access to digital object of bibliographic references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    &lt;div class=&#34;featured&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;blr/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;        &lt;div&gt;&#xA;            &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://biolitrepo.org/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR)&lt;/a&gt; is a Zenodo-community to share publications related to bio-systematics. It has been initiated by Plazi, &lt;a href=&#34;http://pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Pensoft&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/&#34;&gt;Zenodo&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&#34;https://home.cern/&#34;&gt;CERN&lt;/a&gt;.Its goal is to provide open access to publications cited in publications or in combination with scientific names and to provide in collaboration with Zenodo a digital object identifier (DOI) to the publications to enable citation of the publications, including direct access to its digital representation. Its focus is on thematic corpora, such as particular taxonomic groups, eg. ants, projects  or research journals. Illustrations or subarticle elements can be uploaded. Plazi provides a service to convert back issues into semantically enhanced documents and to disseminate taxonomic treatments through &lt;a href=&#34;https://plazi.org/resources/treatmentbank/&#34;&gt;TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt;. BLR offers journals to obtain DOIs for their new issues. Currently, the following journals joined the BLR community and use Zenodo DataCite DOIs:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Treatment Data Access</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/treatment-data-access/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/treatment-data-access/</guid>
      <description>&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#access-to-plazi-treatments&#34;&gt;Access to Plazi Treatments&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#what-is-a-treatment&#34;&gt;What is a treatment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#what-is-a-darwincore-archive&#34;&gt;What is a DarwinCore Archive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#the-darwin-core-archive-used-by-plazi&#34;&gt;The Darwin Core Archive used by Plazi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#treatment-data-representation-in-plazi&#34;&gt;Treatment Data representation in Plazi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#plazi-api&#34;&gt;Plazi API&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#obtaining-a-list-of-all-the-treatments-available-from-plazi&#34;&gt;Obtaining a list of all the treatments available from Plazi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#http-get---rss&#34;&gt;HTTP GET - RSS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#http-get---zip-archive&#34;&gt;HTTP GET - ZIP Archive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#http-get---page-displaying-treatment&#34;&gt;HTTP GET - Page displaying Treatment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#http-get---generic-xml&#34;&gt;HTTP GET - generic XML&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#http-get---taxonx&#34;&gt;HTTP GET - TaxonX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#list-of-plazis-available-dwc-archives-from-gbif-api&#34;&gt;List of Plazi&amp;rsquo;s available DwC-Archives from GBIF API&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#http-get---json&#34;&gt;HTTP GET - JSON&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#appendix-darwin-core-archive-content&#34;&gt;Appendix: Darwin Core Archive Content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#further-reading&#34;&gt;Further reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#downloads&#34;&gt;Downloads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#support-and-questions&#34;&gt;Support and Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#version&#34;&gt;Version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;access-to-plazi-treatments&#34;&gt;Access to Plazi Treatments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;what-is-a-treatment&#34;&gt;What is a treatment?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/resources/treatmentbank/&#34;&gt;Plazi TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt; deals with scientific, published, biosystematic literature. It is the literature documenting and describing all the world’s ca 1.9 Million known species in an estimated corpus of over 500 Million published pages. The cited publications in Plazi are all available at the Biodiversity Literature Repository at &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/collection/user-biosyslit&#34;&gt;Zenodo/CERN&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>TreatmentBank</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/treatmentbank/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/treatmentbank/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://treatmentbank.org&#34;&gt;TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt; is a resource that stores and provides access to the treatements and data therein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;div id=&#34;mapContainer&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;div id=&#34;mapid&#34;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;    Latest Treatments&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&#34;widget-search widget&#34;&gt;&#xA;&#x9;&lt;!-- http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?fullText.matchMode=prefix&amp;fullText.ftQuery= --&gt;&#xA;    &lt;form class=&#34;widget-search__form&#34; role=&#34;search&#34; method=&#34;get&#34; action=&#34;&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;label&gt;&#xA;            &lt;input class=&#34;searchInput&#34; type=&#34;search&#34; placeholder=&#34;find treatments…&#34; value=&#34;&#34; id=&#34;q&#34; name=&#34;q&#34; aria-label=&#34;find treatments…&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;/label&gt;&#xA;        &lt;input id=&#34;searchBtn&#34; class=&#34;searchBtn&#34; type=&#34;submit&#34; value=&#34;Search&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/form&gt;&#xA;    &lt;div id=&#34;search_results&#34;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;script&gt;&#xA;    const search = function(e) {&#xA;        const q = document.getElementById(&#39;q&#39;)&#xA;        const search_results = document.getElementById(&#39;search_results&#39;)&#xA;        //const tb = &#39;https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?fullText.matchMode=prefix&amp;fullText.ftQuery=&#39; + q.value&#xA;&#xA;        fetch(`https://test.zenodeo.org/v3/treatments?q=${q.value}`)&#xA;            .then(function(response) {&#xA;                if (!response.ok) {&#xA;                    throw new Error(&#39;HTTP error, status = &#39; + response.status);&#xA;                }&#xA;&#xA;                return response.json();&#xA;            })&#xA;            .then(function(response) {&#xA;                let res = &#39;&lt;h2&gt;Treatments search results&lt;/h2&gt;&#39;&#xA;                response.item.records.forEach(r =&gt; {&#xA;                    res += `&lt;details&gt;&#xA;                        &lt;summary&gt;${r.treatmentTitle}&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;                        &lt;p&gt;${r.articleTitle}, ${r.journalTitle}&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Statistics</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/statistics/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:54:17 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/statistics/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is an analysis and mining tool for the data contained in &lt;a href=&#34;../treatmentbank&#34;&gt;TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt;. Access is provided at article and treatment level. &lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PQASI6pYETcwG3dXMu7zJ6iqkHBBKUeUX6pBjZEWIsk/edit#&#34;&gt;Documentation&lt;/a&gt; is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user can select fields and download Plazi treatment data in multiple formats. Selected fields turn from gray to green. Data on all materials (cited specimens) are available through the “Materials Citations Data” domain; these data are summarized by treatment in the “Materials Data” domain. Select the relevant operation (e.g., show individual values, count distinct values, count all values, minimum value, maximum value) for each selected field. The “Get Statistics” button runs the selected query. You can save the results using one of the links indicating desired format. It may be useful to choose an appropriate file name and add an extension to the file (e.g., .csv for comma separated values).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>TreatmentBank API</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/treatmentbank-api/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:54:17 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/treatmentbank-api/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;what-is-a-treatment&#34;&gt;What is a treatment?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Plazi TreatmentBank [1] deals with scientific, published, biosystematic literature. It is the literature documenting and describing all the world’s ca 1.9 Million known species in an estimated corpus of over 500 Million published pages. The cited publications in Plazi are all available at the Biodiversity Literature Repository [2] at Zenodo/CERN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Treatments are well defined parts of articles that define the particular usage of a scientific name by an author at a given time (the publication) [3]. With other words, each scientific name has one to several treatments, depending whether there exists only an original description of a species, or whether there are subsequent re-descriptions. Similar to bibliographic references, treatments can be cited, and subsequent usages of names cite earlier treatments.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Visualization Tools</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/visualization-tools/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:54:17 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/data-apis-tools/visualization-tools/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/vis-tools.png&#34; alt=&#34;Visualization Tools&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the data extracted from the taxonomic literature is available for visualization. For that Plazi offers a &lt;a href=&#34;http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/srsStatCharts&#34;&gt;tool to create a  number of Google Charts&lt;/a&gt;. Please read the &lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_UYDgHCAZbFulo0XQS6z8EP5xIFvhofTELcFuvigaj8/edit#heading=h.gmy9mi4jm2n9&#34;&gt;documentation on using the visualization tools&lt;/a&gt; and an &lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PQASI6pYETcwG3dXMu7zJ6iqkHBBKUeUX6pBjZEWIsk/edit&#34;&gt;overview of the available fields&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Publications</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/publications/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/publications/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;All our publications are published under open licenses. If you are unable to locate a copy, please contact us and we will be happy to send it to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2023&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Penev L, Ruch P, Benichou L, Ioannidis-Pantopikos A (2023) The Ecosystem of Linked Biodiversity Publications: General Picture of Tools and Services Created by Plazi, Pensoft, MNHN, CETAF, Zenodo, and SIBiLS. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e110681. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110681&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110681&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Benichou L, Agosti D, Egloff W, Hermann E, Kageyama M, Mergen P, Rinaldo C, Buschbom J (2023) Joint statement by CETAF, SPNHC and BHL on DATA within scientific publications: clarification of [non]copyrightability. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9: e115466. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e115466&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e115466&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Caucheteur D, Pendlington ZM, Roncaglia P, Gobeill J, Mottin L, Matentzoglu N, Agosti D, Osumi-Sutherland D, Parkinson H, Ruch P 2000., COVoc and COVTriage: novel resources to support literature triage, Bioinformatics, 39 (1): btac800, doi: &lt;a href=&#34;&#34;https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac800&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac800&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Cornwell P (2023) Progress with Repository-based Annotation Infrastructure for Biodiversity Applications. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e112707. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112707&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112707&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Giora J, Agosti D, Ruschel T, Castro JB (2023) Engaging the Scientific Community, Authors and Publishers in FAIR Taxonomic Data Liberation: An Overview of Training Resources at Plazi. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e110695. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110695&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110695&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Pasche E, Gobeill J, Agosti D, Penev L, Groom Q, Georgiev T, Gaillac E, Flament A, Caucheteur D, Michel P-A, Ruch P (2023) From SIBiLS to Biodiversity PMC: Foundations for the One Health Library. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111660. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111660&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111660&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Pasche E, Agosti D, Penev L, Groom Q, Flament A, Gobeill J, Ruch P (2023) Towards &#34;Biodiversity PMC&#34;. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111647. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111647&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111647&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Penev L, Koureas D, Groom Q, Lanfear J, Agosti D, Casino A, Miller J, Cochrane G, Pauperio J, Bánki O, Addink W, Kõljalg U, Ruch P, Hristova K, Barov B, Madeira Scauri M, Montinaro S, Vaira L, Fiore N, Bamford E, Arvanitidis C (2023) The Biodiversity Knowledge Hub (BKH): A Crosspoint and Knowledge Broker for FAIR and Linked Biodiversity Data. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e111482. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111482&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.111482&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Sautter G, Agosti D (2023) Bidirectional Linking: Benefits, challenges, pitfalls, and solutions. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e112344. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112344&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112344&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Simoes F, Agosti D, Alvares DJ, Castro JB, Giora J, da Rosa Gonçalves V, Ruschel TP, Sokolowicz C, Wingert JM (2023) Post-Publication Linking. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e110692. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110692&#34;&gt;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.110692&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Baskauf SJ, Girón Duque JC, Nielsen M, Cobb NS, Singer R, Seltmann KC, Kachian Z, Pérez M, Agosti D, Klompen AML (2023) Implementation Experience Report for Controlled Vocabularies Used with the Audubon Core Terms subjectPart and subjectOrientation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e94188. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.94188&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.7.94188&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2022&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Benichou L, Addink W, Arvanitidis C, Catapano T, Cochrane G, Dillen M, Döring M, Georgiev T, Gérard I, Groom Q, Kishor P, Kroh A, Kvaček J, Mergen P, Mietchen D, Pauperio J, Sautter G, Penev L (2022) Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e97374. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e97374&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.8.e97374&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Meeus S, Addink W, Agosti D, Arvanitidis C, Balech B, Dillen M, Dimitrova M, González-Aranda JM, Holetschek J, Islam S, Jeppesen TS, Mietchen D, Nicolson N, Penev L, Robertson T, Ruch P, Trekels M, Groom Q (2022) Recommendations for interoperability among infrastructures. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e96180. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e96180&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.8.e96180&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W 2022. FAIR Works – Eckpunkte eines Urheberrechts für die digitale Welt. Sic!, 2022, 405–424. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7184216&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.7184216&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W 2022. FAIR Works - Cornerstones for a Copyright in the Digital World. Sic!, 2022, 405–424. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7181457&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.7181457&lt;/a&gt; (english translation of doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7184216&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.7184216&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Benichou L, Buschbom J, Campbell M, Hermann E, Kvacek J, Mergen P, Mitchell L, Rinaldo C, Agosti D (2022) Joint statement on best practices for the citation of authorities of scientific names in taxonomy by CETAF, SPNHC and BHL. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e94338. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94338&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.8.e94338&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Ioannidis-Pantopikos A (2022) Taxonomic Treatments as Open FAIR Digital Objects. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e93709. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e93709&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.8.e93709&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Gmür R, Agosti D, Sautter G (2022) Synospecies, a Linked Data Application to Explore Taxonomic Names. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e93707. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93707&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.6.93707&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Benichou L, Penev L, Hyam R (2022) A Possible Workflow from New and Legacy Publications to keep the World Flora Online up to date with New Species and Augmenting Taxonomic Treatments. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e91241. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91241&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.6.91241&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Ruch P, Benito Gonzalez Lopez J, Penev L (2022) Enabling Published Taxonomic Data to be used to Address the Biodiversity Crisis: Biodiversity Literature Repository and TreatmentBank. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e91167. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.91167&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.6.91167&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Fawcett S, Agosti D, Cole SR, Wright CF 2022. Digital accessible knowledge: Mobilizing legacy data and the future of taxonomic publishing. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 1(1): 1-12. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i1.8296&#34;&gt;10.18061/bssb.v1i1.8296&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Penev L, Koureas D, Groom Q, Lanfear J, Agosti D, Casino A, Miller J, Arvanitidis C, Cochrane G, Hobern D, Banki O, Addink W, Kõljalg U, Copas K, Mergen P, Güntsch A, Benichou L, Benito Gonzalez Lopez J, Ruch P, Martin CS, Barov B, Hristova K (2022) Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL). Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e81136. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e81136&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.8.e81136&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2021&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Guidoti M, Simões FL, Ruschel TP, DA Rosa Gonçalves V, Sokolowicz C, Agosti D. 2021. Using taxonomic treatments to assess an author&#39;s career: the impactful Jocélia Grazia. Zootaxa 4958 (1): 12-33 doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.4&#34;&gt;10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.4&lt;/a&gt;. BLR: &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/record/4692727&#34;&gt;Zenodo Record 4692727&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Bénichou, L., Guidoti, M., Gérard, I., Agosti, D., Robillard, T., &amp;amp; Cianferoni, F. (2021). European Journal of Taxonomy: a deeper look into a decade of data. European Journal of Taxonomy, 782(1), 173-196. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.782.1597&#34;&gt;10.5852/ejt.2021.782.1597&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Abrahamse T, Andrade-Correa MG, Arida C, Galsim R, Häuser C, Price M, Sommerwerk N 2021. The Global Taxonomy Initiative in Support of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. CBD Technical Series No. 96. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, 103 pages. (Plazi: participant) doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5728812&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.5728812&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Cornwell P, Bénichou L, Gonzalez J, Herren M, Ruch P 2021. Progress with improving preservation and reuse of scientific research data. iPRES 2021 - 17th International Conference on Digital Preservation, October 19-22, 2021, Beijing, China. &lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2Rui8KMhpw0xIGF1UcQJJJoH3scYAeo/view?usp=sharing&#34;&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Waterhouse RM, Adam-Blondon AF, Agosti D et al. Recommendations for connecting molecular sequence and biodiversity research infrastructures through ELIXIR [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research 2021, 10(ELIXIR):1238. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.73825.1&#34;&gt;10.12688/f1000research.73825.1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Souza JLP, Fernandes IO, Agosti D, Johnson NF, Baccaro FB 2021. Assessing the efficacy of higher-taxon approach for ant species surveys to improve biodiversity inventories. Animal Conservation 24 (early view) doi: 10.1111/acv.12758. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12758&#34;&gt;10.1111/acv.12758&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Miller JA, Agosti D, Guidoti M, Rivera Quiroz FA. 2021. Linking and the Role of the Material Citation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75543. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75543&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.75543&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Egloff W. 2021. Herausfinden, was wir schon wissen. Gfbs Newsletter, 39, 24–31. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5168465&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.5168465&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Guidoti M, Sokolowicz C, Simoes F, Gonçalves V, Ruschel T, Alvares DJ, Agosti D 2021. TreatmentBank: Plazi&amp;rsquo;s strategies and its implementation to most efficiently liberate data from scholarly publications. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75690. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75690&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.75690&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Van der Jeucht L, Groom Q, Agosti D, Phelps K, Reeder DM, Simmons NB 2021. Using iNaturalist to monitor adherence to best practices in bat handling. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e68052. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68052&#34;&gt;10.3897/BDJ.9.e68052&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Upham NS, Poelen JH, Paul D, Groom QJ, Simmons NB, Vanhove MPM, Bertolino S, Reeder DM, Bastos-Silveira C, Sen A, Sterner B, Franz NM, Guidoti M, Penev L, Agosti D 2021. Liberating host–virus knowledge from biological dark data. The Lancet Planetary Health. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00196-0&#34;&gt;10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00196-0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Alvares DJ, Guidoti M, Simoes F, Sokolowicz C, Agosti D 2021. The BHL-Plazi Partnership: Getting data from the 1800s directly into 21st century, reused digital accessible knowledge. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75604. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75604&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.75604&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Gmür R, Agosti D 2021. Synospecies, an application to reflect changes in taxonomic names based on a triple store based on taxonomic data liberated from publication. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75641. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75641&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.75641&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D 2021. (Re)Discovering Known Biodiversity: Introduction. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75491. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75491&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.75491&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Simoes F, Agosti D, Guidoti M 2021. Delivering Fit-for-Use Data: Quality control. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75432. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75432&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.75432&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Ioannidis-Pantopikos A, Agosti D 2021. Biodiversity Literature Repository: Building the customized FAIR repository by using custom metadata. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75147. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75147&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.75147&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Sokolowicz C, Guidoti M, Agosti D 2021. Discovering Known Biodiversity: Digital accessible knowledge — Getting the community involved. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e74369. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74369&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.74369&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Meeus S, Addink W, Agosti D, Arvanitidis C, Dimitrova M, González-Aranda JM, Holetschek J, Islam S, Jeppesen TS, Mietchen D, Robertson T, Sanchez Cano FM, Trekels M, Groom Q (2021) Hacking Infrastructures Together: Towards better interoperability of infrastructures. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e74325. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74325&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.74325&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Penev L, Koureas D, Groom Q, Lanfear J, Agosti D, Casino A, Miller J, Arvanitidis C, Cochrane G, Barov B, Hobern D, Banki O, Addink W, Köljalg U, Ruch P, Copas K, Mergen P, Güntsch A, Benichou L, Gonzalez Lopez JB 2021. Towards Interlinked FAIR Biodiversity Knowledge: The BiCIKL perspective. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e74233. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74233&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.5.74233&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2020&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Mottin L, Ruch P, Mottaz A, Naderi N, Caucheteur D, Agosti D, Matentzoglu N, Michel PA, Pendlington Z, Roncaglia P 2020. &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/covoc&#34;&gt;CoVoc Coronavirus Vocabulary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Rivera-Quiroz A, Petchaard B, Miller JA 2020. Mining data from legacy taxonomic literature and application for sampling spiders of the Teutamus group (Araneae; Liocranidae) in Southeast Asia. Scientific Reports 10: 15787. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72549-8&#34;&gt;10.1038/s41598-020-72549-8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Dimitrova M, Poelen J, Zhelezov G, Georgiev T, Agosti D, Penev L 2020. Semantic publishing enables text mining of biotic interactions. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e95036. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59036&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.4.59036&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Guidoti M, Sautter G 2020. Liberating the Richness of Facts implicit in taxonomic Publication: The Plazi Workflow . Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59179. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59179&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.4.59179&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Guidoti M, Catapano T, Ioannidis-Pantopikos A, Sautter G 2020. The Standards behind the Scenes: Explaining data from the Plazi workflow. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59178. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59178&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.4.59178&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Upham NS, Agosti D, Poelen J, Penev L, Paul D, Reeder DM, Simmons NB, Csorba G, Groom Q, Dimitrova M, Miller JT 2020. Liberating Biodiversity Data From COVID-19 Lockdown: Toward a knowledge hub for mammal host-virus information. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4: e59199. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.4.59199&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.4.59199&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2019&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (2019) Open Science in Switzerland: Opportunities and Challenges. Swiss Academies Factsheets 14 (2). &lt;a href=&#34;https://api.swiss-academies.ch/site/assets/files/6154/factsheet_open_science.pdf&#34;&gt;PDF &lt;img src=&#34;https://plazi.org/img/pdf.svg&#34; width=&#34;30&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Chester C, Agosti D, Sautter G, Catapano T, Martens K, Gérard I, Bénicou L 2019. EJT editorial standard for the semantic enhancement of specimen data in taxonomy literature. European Journal of Taxonomy 586: 1-22. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.586&#34;&gt;10.5852/ejt.2019.586&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Saarenma H, Agosti D, Dillen M, Egloff W, Gagnier P-Y, Groom Q, Hardisty A, Raes N. 2019. Open access implementation guidelines for DiSSCo. Deliverable D6.5. ICEDIG, Helsinki. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3465285&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.3465285&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Nielsen LH, Dillen M, Groom Q. 2019. Digitisation infrastructure design for Zenodo. Deliverable D6.3. ICEDIG, Helsinki. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3346782&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.3346782&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Plazi. 2019. Policy Component of ICEDIG Project Website. Deliberable D7.1. ICEDIG, Helsinki. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3484047&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.3484047&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Bénichou L, Gerard I, Chester C, Agosti D. 2019. The European Journal of Taxonomy: Enhancing taxonomic publications for dynamic data exchange and navigation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37199. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37199&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.3.37199&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Catapano T, Sautter G, Kishor P, Nielsen L, Ioannidis-Pantopikos A, Bigarella C, Georgiev T, Penev L, Egloff W. 2019. Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR), a repository for FAIR data and publications. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37197. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37197&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.3.37197&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Nieva de la Hidalga A, Cazenave N, Agosti D, Wu Z, Dillen M, Nielsen L. 2019. Use of European Open Science Cloud and National e-Infrastructures for the Long-Term Storage of Digitised Assets from Natural History Collections. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37164. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37164&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.3.37164&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Dillen M, Groom Q, Agosti D, Nielsen L. 2019. Zenodo, an Archive and Publishing Repository: A tale of two herbarium specimen pilot projects. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37080. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37080&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.3.37080&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Miller JA, Braumuller Y, Kishor P, Shorthouse DP, Dimitrova M, Sautter G, Agosti A. 2019. Mobilizing Data from Taxonomic Literature for an Iconic Species (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Tyrannosaurus rex). Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37078. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37078&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.3.37078&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Catapano T, Sautter G, Egloff W. 2019. The Plazi Workflow: The PDF prison break for biodiversity data. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37046. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37046&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.3.37046&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Hardisty AR, Michener WK, Agosti D,Alonso García, E, Bastine L, Belbin L, Bowserg A, Buttigieg PL, Canhos DAL, Egloff W, De Giovanni R, Figueira R, Groomk Q, Guralnick, RP, Hobern D, Hugo W,Koureas D, Ji L, Kissling WD 2018. The Bari Manifesto: An interoperability framework for essential biodiversity variables. Ecological Informatics 49: 22-31. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.003&#34;&gt;10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2018&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D 2018. Bezahlschranken für Schnappschüsse? Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Gastkommentar, 29.11.2018. &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/bezahlschranken-fuer-fotos-ld.1433968&#34;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Senderov V, Sautter G, Catapano T, Stoev P 2018. The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management (eco-)System: Tools and services for extraction, mobilization, handling and re-use of data from the published literature. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e25748. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25748&#34;&gt;10.3897/biss.2.25748&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Hardisty AR, Michener WK, Agosti D, .. Egloff W, &amp;hellip; (26 authors) 2018. The Bari Manifesto: An interoperability framework for essential biodiversity variables. Ecological Informatics 49: 23-31. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.003&#34;&gt;10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W 2018. Copyright stories: Sketches on the political economy of copyright. Advocomplex, Bern, Switzerland. English translation of  Geschichten vom Urheberrecht oder: Skizzen zur politischen Ökonomie des Copyright&amp;quot; by Stämpfli Verlag AG Bern ISBN 978-3-033-06835-3. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1412365&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.1412365&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Kissling WD, Walls R, &amp;hellip; Agosti D, .. Egloff W, &amp;hellip; (29 authors) 2018. Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2018DA. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0667-3&#34;&gt;10.1038/s41559-018-0667-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Senderov V, Simov K, Franz N, Stoev P, Catapano T, Agosti D, Sautter G, Morris RA, Penev L 2018. OpenBiodiv-O: ontology of the OpenBiodiv knowledge management system. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 9: 5. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-017-0174-5&#34;&gt;10.1186/s13326-017-0174-5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Esterman B, Agosti D, Cretton F, Cochard J-L, Gmür R, Hellstern M, Hladky D, Mabbett A, Mastrandrea E, Plitzker M, Prongué N, Stinson A, Weinberg B 2018. eCH-0205 Linked Open Data. eCH E-Government Standards publication eCH-0205. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2641710&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.2641710&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Côtez E, Mabille A, Chester C, Rocklin M, Deroin T, Desutter-Grandcolas L, Lesur J Merle D, Robillard R, Bénichou 2018. 1802-2018: a 220-year history of the Muséum periodicals. Adansonia 40(1): 1-42. (description of Plazi involvement on p.28 onwards) &lt;a href=&#34;https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/hd/adan-40-1-2018-cotez_et_al-pdf-a.pdf&#34;&gt;PDF &lt;img src=&#34;https://plazi.org/img/pdf.svg&#34; width=&#34;30&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5252/adansonia2018v40a1&#34;&gt;10.5252/adansonia2018v40a1 &lt;img src=&#34;https://plazi.org/img/closed-access.svg&#34; width=&#34;30&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2017&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Bingham H, Doudin M, Weatherdon LV, Despot-Belmonte K, Wetzel FT, Groom Q, Lewis E, Appeltrans W, Güntsch A, Mergen P, Agosti D, Penev L, Hoffmann A, Saarenmaa H, Geller G, Kim K Kim H, Archambeau AS, Häuser C, Schmeller DS, Ilse Geijzendorffer, Camacho AG, Guerra C, Robertson T, Runnel V, Valland N, Martin CS 2017. The Biodiversity Informatics Landscape: Elements, Connections and Opportunities. Research Ideas and Outcome 3: e14059. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e14059&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.3.e14059&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Despot-Belmonte K, Doudin M, Groom Q, Wetzel FT, Agosti D, Jacobsen K, Smirnova L, Weatherdon LV, Robertson T, Penev L, Regan E, Hoffmann A, MacSharry Y, Martin CS 2017. EU BON&amp;rsquo;s contributions towards meeting Aichi Biodiversity Target 19. Research Ideas and Outcome 3: e14013. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e14013&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.3.e14013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Senderov V, Georgiev TA, Agosti D, Catapano T, Sautter G, Ó Tuama É, Franz N, Simov K, Stoev P, Penev L 2017. OpenBiodiv Computer Demo: an Implementation of a Semantic System Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph. Proceedings of TDWG 1: e20193. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20193&#34;&gt;10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20193&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Kissling D (and 35 coauthors) 2017. Building essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale. Biological Reviews. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12359&#34;&gt;10.1111/brv.12359&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Despot-Belmonte K, Doudin M, Groom Q, Wetzel FT, Agosti D, Jacobsen K, Smirnova L, Weatherdon LV, Robertson T, Penev L, Regan E, Hoffmann A, MacSharry B, Shennan-Farpon Y, Martin CS 2017. EU BON’s contributions towards meeting Aichi Biodiversity Target 19. Research Ideas and Outcomes 3: e14013. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e14013&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.3.e14013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Despot-Belmonte K, Bingham Heather, Doudin M, Weatherdon L, Regan E, Lewis E, Scrimgeour R, Bubb Ph, Pan X, Martin C, Wetzel F, Hoffmann A, Häuser Ch, Penner J, Vohland K, Geijzendorffer I, Schmeller D, Agosti D, Arvanitidis Ch, Thalmann A, Underwood E, Tucker G, Grace M, Rose D, Penev L, Jacobsen K 2017. Deliverable 7.4 (D7.4). Strategies and business plan for regional and global biodiversity information infrastructures. M52. EU BON, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Germany.  doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.569819&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.569819&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2016&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Senderov V, Georgiev TA, Agosti D, Catapano T, Sautter G, Ó Tuama É, Franz N, Simov K, Stoev P, Penev L 2016. The Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System: A Semantic Suite Running on top of the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph. TDWG 2016 conference presentation abstract. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.841648&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.841648&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Faulwetter S, Pafilis E, Fanini L, Bailly N, Agosti D, Arvantidis C, Boicenco L, Catapano T, Claus S, Dekeyzer S, Georgiev T, Legaki A, Mavraki D, Oulas A, Papastefanou G, Penev L, Sautter G, Schigel, Senderov V, Teaca A, Tsompanou M 2016. EMODnet Workshop on mechanisms and guidelines to mobilise historical data into biogeographic databases. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e9774. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e9774&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.2.e9774&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Koureas D, Hardisty A, Vos R, Agosti D, Arvanitidis C, Bogatencov P, Buttigieg P, de Jong Y, Horvath F, Gkoutos G, Groom Q, Kliment T, Kõljalg U, Manakos I, Marcer A, Marhold K, Morse D, Mergen P, Penev L, Pettersson L, Svenning J, van de Putte A, Smith V 2016. Unifying European Biodiversity Informatics (BioUnify). Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e7787. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e7787&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.2.e7787&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W, Agosti D, Patterson D, Hoffmann A, Mietchen D, Kishor P, Penev L 2016. Data Policy Recommendations for Biodiversity Data. EU BON Project Report. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e8458. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e8458&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.2.e8458&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Alonso LA, Agosti D 2016. Ants. In: Larsen TH (ed.) 2016. Core Standardized Methods for Rapid Biological Field Assessment. Conservation International, Arlington, VA. pp. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.50824&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.50824&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Smirnova L, Mergen P, Groom QJ, De Wever, A, Penev L, Stoev P, Pe’er I, Runnel V, Camacho AC, Vincent T, Agosti D, Arvanitidis C, García FJB, Saarenmaa H 2016. Data sharing tools adopted by the European Biodiversity Observation Network Project. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: 2: e9390 doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e9390&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.2.e9390&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;RDA-CODATA Legal Interoperability Interest Group. 2016. Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines. Zenodo. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.162241&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.162241&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D. (2016) Shuttleworth Fellowship Application 2016. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e11014. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e11014&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.2.e11014&lt;/a&gt; .  &lt;a href=&#34;https://vimeo.com/185657429&#34;&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Sautter G, Catapano T, Kishor P, Penev L 2016. Deliverable 3.3 (D3.3): Updated release and report on publication data-mining software. EU BON, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Germany.  doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.187446&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.187446&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Kohlbecker A, Güntsch A, Müller A, von Raab-Straube E, Wetzel F, Ring C, Kempa M, Stoev P, De Wever A, Sautter G, Agosti D 2016. Deliverable 1.4 (D1.4): Summary report of operational EU BON services and data provision for the European taxonomic backbone. EU BON, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Germany. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.182122&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.182122&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Ronquist F, Skyttner M, Kõljalg U, Röppert D, Penev L, Stoev P, Peer I, Stein M, Calabuig I, Agosti D, Kempa M 2016. Deliverable 1.3 (D1.3): Systems for mobilizing and managing collection-based data (specimen + DNA-data) fully integrated. EU BON, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Germany. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.189960&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.189960&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W, Agosti D, Kishor P, Patterson D, Miller JA 2016. Copyright and the Use of Images as Biodiversity Data. bioRxiv doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/087015&#34;&gt;10.1101/087015&lt;/a&gt;  (preprint submitted Nov 12; article submitted to PLoS Biology Nov 12; resubmitted Dec 3 to Rio Journal; accepted article doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e12502&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.3.e12502&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2015&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Dikow T, Agosti D. 2015. Utilizing online resources for taxonomy: a cybercatalog of Afrotropical apiocerid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Apioceridae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5707 (06 Oct 2015. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5707&#34;&gt;10.3897/BDJ.3.e5707&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W, Agosti D, Patterson D, Penev L 2015. EU BON Policy Brief on Open Data. Website, doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.188391&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.188391&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Guralnick RP, Cellinese N, Deck J, Pyle RL, Kunze J, Penev L, Walls R, Hagedorn G, Agosti D, Wieczorek J, Catapano T, Page R. 2015 Community next steps for making globally unique identifiers work for biocollections data. ZooKeys 494: 133-154 doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=5042&#34;&gt;10.3897/zookeys.494.9352&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Miller JA, Georgiev T, Stoev P, Sautter G, Penev L 2015. Corrected data re-harvested: curating literature in the era of networked biodiversity informatics. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4552. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4552&#34;&gt;10.3897/BDJ.3.e4552&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Miller JA, Agosti D, Penev L, Sautter G, Georgiev T, Catapano T, Patterson D, King D, Pereira S, Vos RA, Sierra S 2015. Integrating and visualizing primary data from prospective and legacy taxonomic literature. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5063 (12 May 2015) doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5063&#34;&gt;10.3897/BDJ.3.e5063&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2014&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W 2014. Access to scientific and technical information - between social needs and private interests. In: Gartska,H., und Coy,W. (Hg.), Wovon –für wen -wozu. Systemdenken wider die Diktatur der Daten.Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik und Humboldt-Universität Berlin 2014, S. 349 –373. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10597&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.10597&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D 2014. Some thoughts after the Cusco meeting. Hamuli 5 (2): 4-5. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11671&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.11671&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W, Patterson D, Agosti D, Hagedorn G 2014. Open exchange of scientific knowledge and European copyright: The case of biodiversity information. ZooKeys 414, 109-135. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/issue/414/&#34;&gt;10.3897/zookeys.414.7717&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W, 2014. Der Zugang zu Fachinformationen – zwischen gesellschaftlicher Notwendigkeit und privatem Verwertungsinteresse In: Hansjürgen Garstka, Wolfgang Coy (Hg.), Wovon - für wen - wozu. Systemdenken wider die Diktatur der Daten, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, S. 349-373, ISBN 978-3-86004-298-4. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/record/10378&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.10378&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Interview. Donat Agosti on big data, copyright and attribution in taxonomy. BIOME April 9, &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.biomedcentral.com/biome/donat-agosti-on-big-data-copyright-and-attribution-in-taxonomy/&#34;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt; (This is a followup of the Patterson et al. paper. Though it is credited to Donat (because of his role as editor of BMC research notes?), it has a major input from Paddy and Willi.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Patterson DJ, Egloff W, Agosti D, Eades D, Franz N, Hagedorn G, Rees J, Remsen DP 2014. Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing . BMC Research Notes 2014, 7:79 doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/7/79&#34;&gt;10.1186/1756-0500-7-79&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcresnotes/mostviewed/alltime?page=2&amp;amp;itemsPerPage=25&amp;amp;citation=true&amp;amp;summary=false&#34;&gt;most viewed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Vos R and 37 co-authors 2014. Enriched biodiversity data as a resource and service. Biodiversity Data Journal 2, e1125 doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.2.e1125&#34;&gt;10.3897/bdj.2.e1125&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Sautter G, Böhm K 2014. Improved bibliographic reference parsing based on repeated patterns. International Journal on Digital Libraries 14.1-2: 59-80. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/record/181625&#34;&gt;10.1007/s00799-014-0110-6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;pro-iBiosphere 2014. Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System (OBKMS). Final OBKMS brochure. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.191785&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.191785&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Saarenmaa H, Camacho A G, Ó Tuama É, Agosti D, Bailly N, Calderisi M, Drucker D, Güntsch A, Jacobsen K, Kempa M, Kõljalg U, Mergen P, Peer I, Penev L, Valland N, de Wever A 2014. Deliverable 2.1 (D2.1): Architectural design, review and guidelines for using standards. M14. EU BON FP7-308454. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.292208&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.292208&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Egloff W, Agosti D, Morris RA, Groom Q, Güntsch A, Hovenkamp P, Mantel J-W, Sierra S, Mietchen D, Paton A, Patterson D, Stoev P, Macklin J 2014. D2.4.2 Draft policy on Open Access for data and information. Pro-iBiosphere. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10879&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.10879&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2013&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Karol Marhold, Tod Stuessy, Mariam Agababian, Donat Agosti, Mac H. Alford, Ana Crespo, Jorge V. Crisci, Laurence J. Dorr, Zuzana Ferencová, David Frodin, Dmitry V. Geltman, Norbert Kilian, H. Peter Linder, Lucia G. Lohmann, Christoph Oberprieler, Lyubomir Penev, Gideon F. Smith, Wayt Thomas, Melissa Tulig, Nicholas Turland, Xian-Chun Zhang (2013) The Future of Botanical Monography: Report from an international workshop, 12–16 March 2012, Smolenice, Slovak Republic. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.621003&#34;&gt;10.1002/tax.621003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Agosti D, Catapano T, Cora J, Güntsch A, Groom Q, Hagedorn G, Kirkup D, Macklin J, Mietchen Da, Miller J, Morris R, Patton A, Penev L, Patterson D, Sierra S 2013. D3.2.2 Report on the state and quality of biosystematics documents and survey reports. pro-IBiosphere. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6751676&#34;&gt;doi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Groom Q, Agosti D, Güntsch A, Hovenkamp P, Kralt E, Mietchen D, Paton A, Sierra S 2013. D2.3 The Use of e-Tools among Producers of Taxonomic Knowledge (Proof of concept report on the use of e-tools) Deliverable. pro-iBiosphere. &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6752008&#34;&gt;doi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Hardisty A, Roberts D. and The Biodiversity Informatics Community, 2013. A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. BMC Ecology 2013, 13:16 doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/16&#34;&gt;10.1186/1472-6785-13-16&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Abstract:&lt;/strong&gt; Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community&amp;rsquo;s efforts to address scientific conservation and sustainability issues. Great strides have been made in the past decade establishing a framework for sharing data, where taxonomy and systematics has been perceived as the most prominent discipline involved. To some extent this is inevitable, given the use of species names as the pivot around which information is organised. To address the urgent questions around conservation, land-use, environmental change, sustainability, food security and ecosystem services that are facing Governments worldwide, we need to understand how the ecosystem works. So, we need a systems approach to understanding biodiversity that moves significantly beyond taxonomy and species observations. Such an approach needs to look at the whole system to address species interactions, both with their environment and with other species. It is clear that some barriers to progress are sociological, basically persuading people to use the technological solutions that are already available. This is best addressed by developing more effective systems that deliver immediate benefit to the user, hiding the majority of the technology behind simple user interfaces. An infrastructure should be a space in which activities take place and, as such, should be effectively invisible. This community consultation paper positions the role of biodiversity informatics, for the next decade, presenting the actions needed to link the various biodiversity infrastructures invisibly and to facilitate understanding that can support both business and policy-makers. The community considers the goal in biodiversity informatics to be full integration of the biodiversity research community, including citizens’ science, through a commonly-shared, sustainable e-infrastructure across all sub-disciplines that reliably serves science and society alike.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Smith V, Georgiev T, Stoev P, Biserkov J, Miller J, Livermore L, Baker E, Mietchen D, Couvreur T L P , Mueller G, Dikow T, Helgen K M, Frank J, Agosti D, Roberts D, Penev L. 2013. Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal. Biodiversity Data Journal. 09/2013; 1. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/articles.php?id=995&#34;&gt;10.3897/BDJ.1.e995&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;King D, Sautter G, Morse D, Penev L, Biserkov J, Georgiev T, Roberts D, Smith V 2013. Bibliography of live: a freely accessible bibliography of every paper ever published. Poster, TDWG 2013, Florence, Italy, October 28 - November 1, 2013. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.181364&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.181364&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Tschöppe O, Macklin JA, Morris RA, Suhrbier L, Berendsohn WG 2013. Annotating biodiversity data via the Internet. Taxon, 62(2): 1248-1258. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.12705/626.4&#34;&gt;10.12705/626.4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Sautter G, Böhm K 2013. High-throughput crowdsourcing mechanisms for complex tasks. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 3(4): 873-888. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13278-013-0114-z&#34;&gt;10.1007/s13278-013-0114-z&lt;/a&gt;; doi (preprint): &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.188564&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.188564&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Morris RA, Barve V, Carausu M, Chavan V, Cuadra J, Freeland C, Hagedorn G, Leary P, Mozzherin D, Olson A, Riccardi G, Teage I, Whitebread G 2013. Discovery and publishing of primary biodiversity data associated with multimedia resources: The Audubon Core strategies and approaches. Biodiversity Informatics 8(2): 185-197. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v8i2.4117&#34;&gt;10.17161/bi.v8i2.4117&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Sautter G, various 2013. D7.3 - Literature search. ViBRANT project deliverable d7.3, &lt;a href=&#34;http://wiki.scratchpads.eu/w/D73report&#34;&gt;http://wiki.scratchpads.eu/w/D73report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Hobern et al., 2013. Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: Delivering Biodiversity Knowledge in the Information Age, GBIF. &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.gbif.org/resources/2251&#34;&gt;PDF &lt;img src=&#34;https://plazi.org/img/pdf.svg&#34; width=&#34;30&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Abstract: Much progress has been made in the past ten years to fulfil the potential of biodiversity informatics. However, it is dwarfed by the scale of what is still required. The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook (GBIO) offers a framework for reaching a much deeper understanding of the world’s biodiversity, and through that understanding the means to conserve it better and to use it more sustainably. The GBIO identifies four major focal areas, each with a number of core components, to help coordinate efforts and funding. The co-authors, from a wide range of disciplines, agree these are the essential elements of a global strategy to harness biodiversity data for the common good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/details&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;details open&gt;&#xA;    &lt;summary&gt;2012&lt;/summary&gt;&#xA;    &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Penev L, Catapano T, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Sautter, G, Stoev P (2012). Implementation of TaxPub, an NLM DTD extension for domain-specific markup in taxonomy, from the experience of a biodiversity publisher. In: Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) Proceedings 2012 [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US). doi: [10.5281/zenodo.804247](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.804247); [Article](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100351/)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Miller J, Dikow T, Agosti D, Sautter G, Catapano T, Penev L, Zhang Z-Q, Pentcheff D, Pyle R, Blum S, Parr C, Freeland C, Garnett T, Ford LS, Muller B, Smith L, Strader G, Georgiev T &amp;amp; Bénichou L 2012. From taxonomic literature to cybertaxonomic content. BMC Biology, 10: 87. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-87&#34;&gt;10.1186/1741-7007-10-87&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;        &lt;li&gt;Seltman KC, &amp;hellip; Agosti D., Johnson N and 35 co-authors. 2012. A hymenopterist&amp;rsquo;s guide to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: utility, clarification, and future directions. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 27: 67-88. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.27.2961&#34;&gt;10.3897/jhr.27.2961&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the big challenges in biology - how many species are on planet Earth, where do they live and what do they do -  is increasingly relevant in the age of the biodiversity crisis. In the digital age this turns awkward, because it becomes obvious that we do not even know what we know about biodiversity. Whilst the libraries have been the undisputed source of knowledge in the analogue age, having hard copies in libraries does not serve the needs anymore. Neither does the Portable Document Format (PDF), the currently most widespread publishing format and required by the Codes of nomenclature. None of them allows machines to access the facts in the estimated 500 Million pages of legacy publications. It requires a huge amount of scientists’ time to catalogue the content, for example to build the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.catalogueoflife.org/&#34;&gt;Catalogue of Life&lt;/a&gt;, a goal the latest since the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992&#34;&gt;Rio Earth Summit&lt;/a&gt; in 1992. But a catalogue itself isn’t enough because this does not allow to explore the many implicit links, the &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/the-taxonomic-treatments-from-linnaeus-systema-naturae-1758-10th-edition-liberated/8f2fef3ef0a651ac80768c66436b24d1/&#34;&gt;taxonomic treatments&lt;/a&gt;, traits and specimens used to describe new or enhance the knowledge on existing species with additional data.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;ul class=&#34;members&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Donat Agosti&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Taxonomic literature, systematics and conservation&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;President Plazi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Director Plazi GmbH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Research Associate&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Berne, Switzerland&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:agosti@plazi.org&#34;&gt;agosti@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Klemens Böhm&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Member of Board (2008-)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Professor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Lehrstuhl für Systeme der Informationsverwaltung&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Karlsruher Institute of Technology&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Karlsruhe, GERMANY&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:boehm@kit.edu&#34;&gt;boehm@kit.edu&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Terry Catapano&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Lead developer of TaxonX XML schema and Taxpub Extension of the NLM/NCBI JATS DTD&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Vice-President Plazi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Columbia University&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        New York, USA&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:catapano@plazi.org&#34;&gt;catapano@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Hong Cui&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Natural language processing, character modeling&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Associate Professor, Information Technologies&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        College of Social and Behavioral Sciences&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        The University of Arizona&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Tucson, USA&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:hongcui@email.arizona.edu&#34;&gt;hongcui@email.arizona.edu&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Willi Egloff&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Legal Issues&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Director Plazi GmbH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Lawyer and Partner&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Advocomplex, Bern, Switzerland&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:egloff_bader@bluewin.ch&#34;&gt;egloff_bader@bluewin.ch&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Brian M. Fisher&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Member of Board (2008-)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Curator&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Entomology&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        California Academy of Sciences&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        San Francisco, CA, USA&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:bfisher@calacademy.org&#34;&gt;bfisher@calacademy.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Rob Guralnick&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Ecology, modeling&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Associate Professor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Ecology and Evolutionary Biology&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        University of Colorado&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Boulder, Colorado, USA&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:robert.guralnick@colorado.edu&#34;&gt;robert.guralnick@colorado.edu&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Gregor Hagedorn&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Director&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;http://biowikifarm.net/meta/&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;Biowikifarm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Head of Digital World&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Museum für Naturkunde&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Berlin, Germany&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:gregor.hagedorn@mfn-berlin.de&#34;&gt;gregor.hagedorn@mfn-berlin.de&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Hubert Höfer&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Curator&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Invertebrates&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        State Museum of Natural History&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Karlsruhe, Germany&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:hubert.hoefer@smnk.de&#34;&gt;hubert.hoefer@smnk.de&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Puneet Kishor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Open Science and Data Policy Advocate&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:pkishor@icloud.com&#34;&gt;pkishor@icloud.com&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Christiana Klingenberg&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Taxonomist, designer of the markup process and manual, Quality Control&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Member of Board (2008-)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Karlsruhe, Germany&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:klingenberg@plazi.org&#34;&gt;klingenberg@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Norman F. Johnson&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Member of Board (2008-)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Professor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Museum of Biological Diversity&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Ohio State University&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Columbus, OH, USA&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:johnson.2@osu.edu&#34;&gt;johnson.2@osu.edu&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Daniel Mietchen&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Wikipedian&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Researcher at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin &lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Jena, Germany &lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com&#34;&gt;daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Jeremy Miller&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Taxonomist and bioinformatician&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Workflow design&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Naturalis, Leiden NL&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:jeremy.miller@naturalis.nl&#34;&gt;Jeremy.Miller@naturalis.nl&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Rod Page&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Member of Board&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Professor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        University of Glasgow&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk&#34;&gt;r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        David Patterson&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Interests in a names-based cyberinfrastructure for the management of digital biodiversity data, theGlobal Names project, legal issues, and taxonomy &lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Emeritus Professor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        University of Sydney&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Sydney, Australia&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:dpatterson.mbl@gmail.com&#34;&gt;dpatterson.mbl@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Lyubo Penev&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Professor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Managing Director, Pensoft Ltd&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Sofia, Bulgaria&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:lyubo.penev@gmail.com&#34;&gt;lyubo.penev@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Rich Pyle&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;b&gt;Member of Board&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Associate Zoologist&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Hawaii Biological Survey&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Bernice Pauahi Biship Museum&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Honolulu, Hawai&#39;i, USA&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:deepreef@bishopmuseum.org&#34;&gt;deepreef@bishopmuseum.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Guido Sautter&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Developer of the GoldenGATE editor, SRS, TreatmentBank, and Refbank&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Karlsruhe, Germany&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:sautter@ipd.uka.de&#34;&gt;sautter@ipd.uka.de&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Carolina Coelho Sokolowicz&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Data Quality Analyst&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Porto Alegre, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:sokolowicz@plazi.org&#34;&gt;sokolowicz@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Diego Janisch Alvares&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Data Quality Analyst, Dashboards&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Porto Alegre, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:alvares@plazi.org&#34;&gt;alvares@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Felipe Simoes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Project Analyst, Template Creator&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Porto Alegre, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:simoes@plazi.org&#34;&gt;simoes@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Jonas Castro&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Data Quality Analyst, Projects&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Porto Alegre, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:castro@plazi.org&#34;&gt;castro@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Julia Giora&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Data Quality Analyst, Learning Materials&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Porto Alegre, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:giora@plazi.org&#34;&gt;giora@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Juliana Wingert&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Data Quality Analyst, Dashboards&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Viamão, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:wingert@plazi.org&#34;&gt;wingert@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Guilherme Peres Coelho&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Data Quality Analyst&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Porto Alegre, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:coelho@plazi.org&#34;&gt;coelho@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;member&#34;&gt;&#xA;        Valdenar Gonçalves&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Data Quality Analyst, Learning Materials&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Porto Alegre, Brazil&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:goncalves@plazi.org&#34;&gt;goncalves@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;br clear=&#34;both&#34;&gt;</description>
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      <title>Visualization Tools</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/visualization-tools/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/treatmentbank/visualization-tools/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;data-visualization-tools&#34;&gt;Data Visualization Tools&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://plazi.org/content/data-apis-tools/visualization-tools/img/vis-tools.png&#34; alt=&#34;Visualization Tools&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the data extracted from the taxonomic literature is available for visualization. For that Plazi offers a &lt;a href=&#34;http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/srsStatCharts&#34;&gt;tool to create a  number of Google Charts&lt;/a&gt;. Please read the &lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_UYDgHCAZbFulo0XQS6z8EP5xIFvhofTELcFuvigaj8/edit#heading=h.gmy9mi4jm2n9&#34;&gt;documentation on using the visualization tools&lt;/a&gt; and an &lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PQASI6pYETcwG3dXMu7zJ6iqkHBBKUeUX6pBjZEWIsk/edit&#34;&gt;overview of the available fields&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>materialCitation as a new class submitted to TDWG Darwin Core standard</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/materialcitation-submitted-as-a-new-term/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/materialcitation-submitted-as-a-new-term/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Specimens are a critical basis for taxonomic research. They are cited in taxonomic treatments and other works. Increasingly these material citations are extracted from publications and submitted as part of data sets to &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/publisher/7ce8aef0-9e92-11dc-8738-b8a03c50a862&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt; and reused in studies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of today, &lt;a href=&#34;https://gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt; includes 33,393 datasets derived from taxonomic publications and 415,858 material citations which are labeled as occurrences. 335 publications reuse this data. An estimate of 45,000 species are only represented in &lt;a href=&#34;https://gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt; through material citations from publications, mainly covering new species that are extracted from the literature just after the publishing time. This cuts short the time to enter taxonomic names and re-submit datasets to &lt;a href=&#34;https://gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Legal Issues</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/services/legal-issues-menu/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/services/legal-issues-menu/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Over the next years, Plazi’s goal is to link 1 Million taxonomic name usages with their corresponding treatments. This will allow to bridge the gap from the general use of scientific names with the underlying taxonomic literature. It will provide a direct, citable link to the section in scientific articles that include the treatment and the implicit and explicit link to external resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The treatments are a unique sources for objects (i.e. scientific names) in NCBI, taxa in Wikidata or GBIF.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Partners</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/partners/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:02:17 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/partners/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;zenodo&#34;&gt;Zenodo&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/zenodo.png&#34; alt=&#34;Zenodo&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://about.zenodo.org/&#34;&gt;Zenodo&lt;/a&gt;, Plazi and Pensoft collaborate in developing the &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository&lt;/a&gt; as an open access repository to articles and liberated open FAIR data including figures and taxonomic treatments related to biodiversity. A customized access is provided for all its content via the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.biolitrepo.org/&#34;&gt;BLR website&lt;/a&gt; and to images via &lt;a href=&#34;https://ocellus.info/&#34;&gt;Ocellus&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/&#34;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&#34;gbif&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/GBIF-2015.png&#34; alt=&#34;GBIF&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plazi joined &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt; 2001 and is since 2015 an associate participant of GBIF. Plazi provides occurrences liberated and extracted from the scientific literature, especially from treatments. The assignment of persistent identifiers to treatments allows to cite the source of the occurence taxon.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Bouchout Declaration</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/services/bouchout-declaration/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/services/bouchout-declaration/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://www.bouchoutdeclaration.org/declaration.html&#34;&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/bouchout-d.png&#34; alt=&#34;Bouchout Declaration&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.bouchoutdeclaration.org/declaration.html&#34;&gt;Bouchout Declaration&lt;/a&gt; is to help make digital data about our biodiversity openly available. It offers members of the biodiversity community a way to demonstrate their commitment to open science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As signatories, we encourage an overarching approach to Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management which is based on the following fundamental principles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The free and open use of digital resources about biodiversity and associated access services;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Licenses or waivers that grant or allow all users a free, irrevocable, world-wide, right to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display - the work publicly as well as to build on the work and to make derivative works, subject to proper attribution consistent with community - practices, while recognizing that providers may develop commercial products with more restrictive licensing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Policy developments that will foster free and open access to biodiversity data;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tracking the use of identifiers in links and citations to ensure that sources and suppliers of data are assigned credit for their - contributions;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An agreed infrastructure, standards and protocols to improve access to and use of open data;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Registers for content and services to allow discovery, access and use of open data;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Persistent identifiers for data objects and physical objects such as specimens, images and taxonomic treatments with standard mechanisms - to take users directly to content and data;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking data using agreed vocabularies, both within and beyond biodiversity, that enable participation in the Linked Open Data Cloud;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dialogue to refine the concept, priorities and technical requirements of Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management;&#xA;A sustainable Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management that is attentive to scientific, sociological, legal, and financial aspects.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read here more about the &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.bouchoutdeclaration.org/declaration.html&#34;&gt;Bouchout Declaration&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:bouchoutdeclaration@plazi.org&#34;&gt;please send us an email to bouchoutdeclaration@plazi.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Ongoing and past projects</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/projects/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/projects/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2&gt;Current Projects&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul class=&#34;projects&#34;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;project&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;h3&gt;Arcadia 2022-2025&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;        &lt;img src=&#34;arcadia/img/arcadia-logo.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;The grant will help build on the momentum created in the first Arcadia supported project (years 2018-2021) by: (1) leading the data extraction effort and building a critical mass of FAIR scientific data and related tools involving the community; and (2) establishing a long lasting, self-sustaining research infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;project&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;h3&gt;BiCIKL (EU)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;        &lt;img src=&#34;bicikl/img/bicikl.png&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) is building the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub (BKH). &lt;a href=&#34;https://bicikl-project.eu&#34;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &lt;li class=&#34;project&#34;&gt;&#xA;        &lt;h3&gt;NIH-R21 Viral Spillover (NIH)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;        &lt;p&gt;The goal of this proposed project is to harness the collective power of bioinformatics, artificial intelligence (AI), and ecology to transform our understanding of taxon-specific zoonotic risk. &lt;a href=&#34;https://reporter.nih.gov/search/hyEtr1WcE0au6loZK0TnyA/project-details/10289637&#34;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>A new GBIF Plazi data issue feedback loop</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/data-issue-feedback-loop/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/data-issue-feedback-loop/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/gbif-plazi-feedback.png&#34; alt=&#34;Data Feedback&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plazi’s goal is to discover known biodiversity, and make it widely available using the tools available in the digital age. This means liberating data hidden in libraries, and more recently, and increasingly hidden in the PDF-prison, paywalls and unstructured text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The grand challenge is an estimated 500 Million published pages of scholarly biodiversity related publications, and 17,000 annually new discovered and described species with a multiple of annotations on already known species.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Blue List</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/services/the-blue-list/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/services/the-blue-list/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;An impediment to open sharing of biological content is uncertainty as to whether and how intellectual property rights apply to biodiversity information. To clarify the situation, and in collaboration with the Global Names project, Plazi organized a workshop in Tempe, Arizona in April 2013 in which we brought together providers and users of taxonomic information, data managers, and Intellectual property Rights lawyers from Europe and the USA. The perspectives of interested parties were submitted via a SNARL (Scientific Names Attributes, Rights and Licensing) wiki. The outcomes of the workshop were published by Patterson, D. J., Egloff, W., Agosti, D., Eades, D., Franz, N., Hagedorn, G., Rees, J. A. and Remsen, D. P. in 2014 (doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/7/79&#34;&gt;10.1186/1756-0500-7-79&lt;/a&gt;). A legal analysis of copyright and scientific images has been added in 2017 and those elements have been added in the list below, marked by * (doi: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e12502&#34;&gt;10.3897/rio.3.e12502&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Lectures</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/lectures/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/lectures/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lectures by Plazi team members are available at &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/records?q=&amp;amp;f=resource_type%3Apresentation&amp;amp;l=list&amp;amp;p=1&amp;amp;s=10&amp;amp;sort=newest&#34;&gt;BLR&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&amp;amp;q=Plazi&#34;&gt;SlideShare&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://plazi.org/services/uses-of-data/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/services/uses-of-data/</guid>
      <description>&lt;h2 id=&#34;publications&#34;&gt;Publications&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;on-going&#34;&gt;on-going&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/resource/search?contentType=literature&amp;amp;publishingOrganizationKey=7ce8aef0-9e92-11dc-8738-b8a03c50a862&#34;&gt;Publications using GBIF datasets including Plazi mediated datasets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;2017&#34;&gt;2017&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hugo W, Hobern D, Kõljalg U, Ó Tuama É, Saarenma H 2017. Global Infrastructures for Biodiversity Data and Services. In: Walters M and Scholes RJ (eds.), The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks, doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27288-7_11&#34;&gt;10.1007/978-3-319-27288-7_11&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3 id=&#34;2016&#34;&gt;2016&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alonso LA, Agosti D 2016. Ants. In: Larsen TH (ed.) 2016. Core Standardized Methods for Rapid Biological Field Assessment. Conservation International, Arlington, VA. pp. doi: &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.50824&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.50824&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The Story behind Plazi</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/about/the-story-behind-plazi/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:16:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/about/the-story-behind-plazi/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/placidus-spescha.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Placidus Spescha&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placidus_a_Spescha&#34;&gt;Placidus a Spescha&lt;/a&gt; was not only one of the first alpinists and naturalists but was also deeply committed to the ideals of the Enlightenment. He often ran afoul of his superiors who felt he neglected his priestly duties in favor of his scientific pursuits. Worse yet, he further upset the status quo through his sympathy and support of the French in the follow-up of the wars spurred by the French Revolution which brought invading French and Austrian troops into his home, Disentis, in the Vorderrhein Tal in Switzerland. A substantial part of his notes were lost when his cloister burned down, or perhaps because it had been part of a contribution to the French during the war, supposedly finding its way ultimately to the Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>ClickUp supporting Plazi with task management system </title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/clickup-supporting-plazi/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/clickup-supporting-plazi/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://clickup.com/?utm_expid=.m0awzPKhRiaeu5QZBeY2YQ.0&amp;amp;utm_referrer=&#34;&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/clickup.png&#34; alt=&#34;ClickUp&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Managing collaborations involving multiple locations, time zones and complementing operations is challenging. As an example, Plazi liberates data from scholarly publications by making it, in collaboration with &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/&#34;&gt;Zenodo&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&#34;https://home.cern/&#34;&gt;CERN&lt;/a&gt;, findable, citable  reusable for anybody, anywhere, at any time. This process happens in multiple locations in Europe, Brazil and North America. The increasingly automated processes are based on agile programming. The maintenance and improvement of high quality data requires an additional amount of time critical interactions.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Time for an interim review of Plazi’s Covid-19 related activities</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/news/beitrag/time-for-an-interim-review-of-plazis-covid-19-related-activities/3e26b3bc95a4b39f0a2a9d7fccee8b19/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/news/beitrag/time-for-an-interim-review-of-plazis-covid-19-related-activities/3e26b3bc95a4b39f0a2a9d7fccee8b19/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/custom-metadata.png&#34; alt=&#34;Custom Metadata&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three months ago we started with Pensoft an &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/plazi-and-pensoft-launch-an-initiative-to-provide-access-to-scholarly-published-data-about-coronavirus-hosts/a842a012361dd7a7c96b87e21bce8653/&#34;&gt;effort&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href=&#34;https://blog.pensoft.net/2020/04/07/plazi-and-pensoft-join-forces-to-let-biodiversity-knowledge-of-coronaviruses-hosts-out/&#34;&gt;press release&lt;/a&gt;) to contribute to a better understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) aka corona virus that led to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and in the followup joined the &lt;a href=&#34;https://cetaf.org/news/joint-cetaf-dissco-covid-19-task-force-call-contributions&#34;&gt;CETAF-Covid-19 task force&lt;/a&gt;. With the end of the three months long taskforce we present here our view. A &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnywe5hiMLU&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;amp;t=4622&#34;&gt;multimedia presentation&lt;/a&gt; by the knowledge base task force sub group has been streamed on July 17.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The taxonomic treatments from Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae, 1758, 10th edition, liberated</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/linnaeus-systema-naturae/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/linnaeus-systema-naturae/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/taxonomic-treatment.png&#34; alt=&#34;Taxonomic treatment&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taxonomic treatment. The taxonomic treatment is a well defined part of a publication about a particular taxon, in this case of the honey bee Apis mellifera, described by Linnaeus 1758 on page 576-577. It is based on the implicitly cited specimens in his reference collection.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A milestone in the development of modern biology was the introduction of the standardization resulting from comparative and reference works. This led to a rapidly growing corpus of knowledge by learning from, referencing of, and building on previous work, today known as the data life cycle.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Extended collective licence agreement between Plazi and ProLitteris: Plazi adopts to revised copyright law in Switzerland</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/agreement-between-plazi-and-prolitteris/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/agreement-between-plazi-and-prolitteris/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;On the 1st of April, 2020, a new &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/new-copyright-law-in-switzerland-empowers-scientific-research/5bda7d3847face91269c61a70665f0b7/&#34;&gt;copyright law&lt;/a&gt; was enacted in Switzerland. Amongst other revision points, it declares an extension of the protection of photographs by applying the notion of work to non-individual photographs, provides for a new copyright exception for the use of copyrighted works for purposes of scientific research, and introduces extended collective licenses as a new instrument for collective copyright regulation. As the &lt;a href=&#34;http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-2-53&#34;&gt;Plazi workflow&lt;/a&gt; is organised and ruled by &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/new-copyright-law-in-switzerland-empowers-scientific-research/5bda7d3847face91269c61a70665f0b7/&#34;&gt;Swiss copyright law&lt;/a&gt;, Plazi had to adapt to these legal amendments.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Plazi and Pensoft launch an initiative to provide access to scholarly published data about Coronavirus hosts</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/coronavirus-hosts/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/coronavirus-hosts/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Read the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/pp-pap040720.php&#34;&gt;Eurekalert!&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.knowledgespeak.com/news/plazi-and-pensoft-partner-to-let-biodiversity-knowledge-of-coronaviruses-hosts-out/&#34;&gt;Knoweldge Speak&lt;/a&gt; release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The COVID-19 pandemic presumably started with the escape of the Coronavirus from its bat host to humans. To understand the original host, it is important to have access to relevant scientific knowledge about these organisms. The scientific results from charting the world’s biodiversity reside in a vast corpus, which is often “imprisoned” by paywalls, copyright laws or trapped in formats unfavorable to text and data mining. For the majority of the world’s species, there exist only one or a few articles providing descriptions of the species or adding some additional observations. Even for well-known groups such as birds and mammals, access to primary taxonomic literature requires extensive and time-consuming specialist searches. Bats, suspected hosts of COVID-19 and other viruses such as Ebola, are particularly poorly covered &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.catalogueoflife.org/&#34;&gt;Catalogue of Life&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/database/id/115&#34;&gt;ITIS&lt;/a&gt;, and most taxonomic information is locked within commercial closed-access books and scholarly articles.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>On the Role of Open Science in Charting Biodiversity</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/open-science-charting-biodiversity/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/open-science-charting-biodiversity/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1343376&#34;&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/plazi-slide.png&#34; alt=&#34;header image&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A striking example of the impact of open access on the usage of scientific publications. Around 2000 antbase.org, co-funded by the Atherton-Seidal Foundation at the Smithsonian Institution provided open access to the entire ant taxonomic literature. Within a very short time, this resource has been used world wide. DOI: &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1343376&#34;&gt;10.5281/zenodo.1343376&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following discussions on &lt;a href=&#34;https://taxacom.markmail.org/search/?q=%22open%20science%22#query:%22open%20science%22+page:1+mid:ucbqotjlenxk3ief+state:results&#34;&gt;Taxacom&lt;/a&gt; list server on the value on &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/node/1420&#34;&gt;Open Science&lt;/a&gt;, here some points to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation has changed regarding open access and open science. The EU fully requires open access to anything they fund. No funds are awarded to any institution that will not accept a commitment to open access. Many of our institutions signed up the Bouchout Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management and open access is for example a central part of the development of DiSSCo – the Distributed System of Scientific Collections in Europe.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>12 new species added to GBIF during the first Plazi training course at the Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/first-plazi-training-course/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/first-plazi-training-course/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/new-species.png&#34; alt=&#34;New Species&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plazi Minicurso at the Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, March 1, 2020&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taxonomic literature is an almost untapped resource of data covering our scholarly knowledge of biodiversity. This includes an estimated 500 Million printed pages and is augmented annually with over 17.000 taxonomic treatments of species new to science. This data represents in fact an incredibly rich citation network, albeit with most of the citations implicit, only understandable by extensive domain expertise, and often with an insurmountable time required to follow up chasing the cited resources. Plazi’s aim, together with the support of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/&#34;&gt;Arcadia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://home.cern/&#34;&gt;CERN&lt;/a&gt;’s &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/&#34;&gt;Zenodo&lt;/a&gt; repository, is to liberate the imprisoned data and make it findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples&#34;&gt;FAIR&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>New Copyright Law in Switzerland Empowers Scientific Research</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/2019/10/new-copyright-law-in-switzerland/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:10:49 +0100</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/2019/10/new-copyright-law-in-switzerland/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Swiss Parliament adopted a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.parlament.ch/centers/eparl/curia/2017/20170069/Schlussabstimmungstext%201%20NS%20D.pdf&#34;&gt;new copyright law&lt;/a&gt; on 27 September, 2019. Amongst its many new elements, there is a large exception to copyright for the use of protected works for scientific research purposes (Art. 24d&lt;sup id=&#34;fnref:1&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;#fn:1&#34; class=&#34;footnote-ref&#34; role=&#34;doc-noteref&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;). This exception is compulsory and overrules any subsequent license agreements. It allows copying and reuse of copyrighted works for commercial or non-commercial scientific research, and refers to any work to which the researcher has lawful access.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Der geplante Lichtbildschutz Artikel (Art 2 Abs. 3bis) behindert Forschung und IT-Industrie</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/lichtbildschutz-artikel/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/lichtbildschutz-artikel/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Am kommenden Montag (21.1.2019) berät die Kommission for Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur (WBK) des schweizerischen Ständerates die Revision des Urheberrechtsgesetzes. Nach dem jetzigen Revisionsentwurf sollen in Zukunft auch Fotografien, welche keinen individuellen Charakter haben, wie Werke der Kunst und der Literatur geschützt werden. Wir sind der Meinung, dass durch eine solche Bestimmung der wissenschaftlichen Lehre und Forschung, und letztlich unserer IT Industrie und Gesellschaft, erheblicher Schaden zugefügt wird, und zwar aus den folgenden Gründen:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Training for building and reusing your corpus of mineable taxonomic literature</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/mineable-taxonomic-literature/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/mineable-taxonomic-literature/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/visualization.png&#34; alt=&#34;Visualization&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Visualization of data liberated from 22 published articles in the journals Zootaxa and PLoS ONE during the training course at Leiden University&amp;rsquo;s Integrative Taxonomy course.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The taxonomic literature is a rich, high quality, and largely untapped source of biodiversity knowledge. Taxonomy helps us recognize species and map their distributions through text descriptions, images, and records of when and where they have been observed. These are the data we need to answer questions that are relevant to our world today, like setting conservation priorities and anticipating the effects of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functions that affect the lives of people.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Why do we need BLR to store scholarly taxonomic articles?</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/blr-scholarly-taxonomic-articles/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;When Jérôme Constant published yesterday his &lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.486&#34;&gt;taxonomic article&lt;/a&gt; on eurybrachid planthopper insects in the &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/index&#34;&gt;European Journal of Taxonomy&lt;/a&gt;, its data became immediately accessible as FAIR and open access data in &lt;a href=&#34;http://treatment.plazi.org/GgServer/summary/FFECFFA1FF9D4B16FFB3FF95FFB7FFC3&#34;&gt;TreatmentBank&lt;/a&gt; including &lt;a href=&#34;http://treatment.plazi.org/id/26C5880F-0D15-409D-99C3-CA496382C6FE&#34;&gt;taxonomic treatments&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&#34;http://biolitrepo.org/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository&lt;/a&gt; (BLR) as an article and figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This data is also at the same moment reused by &lt;a href=&#34;https://gbif.org/&#34;&gt;GBIF&lt;/a&gt; to describe the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/dataset/0e26b0d8-14bc-46b2-aac6-feed5d62b2d8&#34;&gt;dataset&lt;/a&gt; aka article, to list all its &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?dataset_key=0e26b0d8-14bc-46b2-aac6-feed5d62b2d8&#34;&gt;material citations&lt;/a&gt;, provide the taxonomic treatments for the included &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/species/150668922&#34;&gt;species&lt;/a&gt;, which is especially valuable for those new to the sciences or an individual &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1949872163&#34;&gt;occurrence&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/expanded-access-to-images-in-the-biodiversity-literature-repository/b86d1880198c5c7315c2d38ae3a82820/&#34;&gt;Ocellus&lt;/a&gt; is using the &lt;a href=&#34;https://ocellus.punkish.org/?q=olonia&amp;amp;page=1&#34;&gt;figures&lt;/a&gt; to index journals and provide a novel access to them. All the bibliographic references have been added to &lt;a href=&#34;http://refbank.org/&#34;&gt;Refbank&lt;/a&gt;. Some of the references in the article include a Digital Object Identifier &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.doi.org/&#34;&gt;DOI&lt;/a&gt;, but most do not.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Schnappschüsse und das Urheberrecht (Snapshots and copyright law)</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/schnappschuesse-urheberrecht/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/schnappschuesse-urheberrecht/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/bezahlschranken-fuer-fotos-ld.1433968&#34;&gt;Thursday November 29, 2018&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&#34;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1682067&#34;&gt;doi&lt;/a&gt;) issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung includes a “Gastkommentar” by me (Donat Agosti) arguing that the proposed insertion of an article protecting any kind of photographs of three dimensional objects in the revised copyright law of Switzerland is misguided (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.parlament.ch/centers/eparl/curia/2017/20170069/N1%20D.pdf&#34;&gt;Art. 2 al.&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the sciences, illustrations, including photographs, play a crucial role. They are one among many types of research data, and are used to visually document and compare results. Although in the current debate about access to research data in &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.snf.ch/de/derSnf/forschungspolitische_positionen/open_access/Seiten/default.aspx&#34;&gt;Switzerland&lt;/a&gt; and abroad the main focus is on open access to research articles, the movement is broadening to include open data and open science.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Provenance – another look at taxonomic treatments and names</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/provenance/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/provenance/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;When an &amp;rsquo;ex banker&amp;rsquo; - Tim Robertson -  meets an &amp;rsquo;ex taxonomist&amp;rsquo; - Donat Agosti - this can be very inspiring, especially when they discover that they share rather unexpectedly more than they ever expected. So, what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both share data lineages. The banker has bank accounts that are created, mutated and that  have at a  given time a certain value. The taxonomist has species that are described, mutated and at a given time have a certain name. Both of them have provenance, a documented lineage of data that includes the data origins, what happened to it and where it moves over time, a ledger in bankers term. It allows to trace the history, and in taxonomy it ought to allow to reproduce the history.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>ZooKeys 10th anniversary</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/zookeys-10th-anniversary/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/zookeys-10th-anniversary/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://zookeys.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/zookeys.png&#34; alt=&#34;ZooKeys&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zookeys at 10&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy Birthday &lt;a href=&#34;https://zookeys.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Zookeys&lt;/a&gt;, and congratulations to &lt;a href=&#34;https://pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Pensoft&lt;/a&gt;, its innovator and publisher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today’s 10th anniversary of Zookeys is a great day for biodiversity. The discoveries reported in the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/pp-zc1070318.php&#34;&gt;press release&lt;/a&gt; and celebrated in the &lt;a href=&#34;https://zookeys.pensoft.net/issue/1511/&#34;&gt;770th issue&lt;/a&gt; of the journal are magnificent and open access, unlike the big bulk of taxonomic articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real and unreported impact of Zookeys, its sister &lt;a href=&#34;https://bdj.pensoft.net/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Data Journal&lt;/a&gt; and the many &lt;a href=&#34;https://pensoft.net/browse_journals&#34;&gt;other natural history journals&lt;/a&gt; hosted by Pensoft is neither reported by Pensoft, widely recognized by the taxonomists nor the wider scientific community: The revolution caused, and enabled by, the technical changes adopted in the publishing of Zookeys and the subsequent journals.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Plazi and BLR receive €1.1 million from Arcadia to open up new biodiversity data</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/arcadia-fund/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <guid>https://plazi.org/posts/arcadia-fund/</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/visual-search-result.png&#34; alt=&#34;Visual Search Result&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Visual search results from the Biodiversity Literature Repository. Each of the images provides access to the taxonomic treatment of the species or the source article. Only figures from scholarly publications are provided.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plazi has received a grant of EUR 1.1 million from &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/&#34;&gt;Arcadia&lt;/a&gt; – the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to liberate data, such as taxonomic treatments and images, trapped in scholarly biodiversity publications.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is the view of Donat Agosti, cofounder of Plazi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1992, I wrote an article in the followup of the Rio Earth Summit in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung titled “Brauchen wir zu wissen, wie viele Arten es gibt?» Now, 2018, we are still discussing this question, and I am still convinced we should. Should, because we still don’t know know the answer. But must, because of the rapidly increasing, unprecendented loss of biodiversity.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is the view of Donat Agosti, cofounder of Plazi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1992, I wrote an article in the followup of the Rio Earth Summit in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung titled “Brauchen wir zu wissen, wie viele Arten es gibt?» Now, 2018, we are still discussing this question, and I am still convinced we should. Should, because we still don’t know know the answer. But must, because of the rapidly increasing, unprecendented loss of biodiversity.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/200000-deposits-at-blr/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/ocellus.png&#34; alt=&#34;Ocellus&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ocellus: Search term &amp;ldquo;Perlidae&amp;rdquo;. All the images are provided with a link to the source.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wealth of data encapsulated in scientific publications is a well-guarded secret. The recent discussions around Open Access are centered around open access to the articles, and thus little effort is made to build an index, for example, of all the illustrations therein. This is even more astounding in descriptive sciences, such as biological taxonomy, dealing with discovering and describing the world’s biological diversity, where each article includes an average of 7.2 illustrations.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Pensoft and Plazi join forces to expedite building the OpenBioDiv</title>
      <link>https://plazi.org/posts/building-openbiodiv/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;img/pensoft-plazi.png&#34; alt=&#34;Pensoft Plazi&#34;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pensoft - Plazi project to produce semantically enhanced data&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open Science is based on open data. Data &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt; is not copyrighted and thus freely accessible. However it is kept in well maintained prisons, such as hard disks on a scientist’s desk to large password protected databases to publications that lost all their semantic structure in transition from a scientists lab to the publishers print shop. To paraphrase, scientist do all to loose structure in their data in publications.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Happy New Year 2018</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:18:13 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2017 has been a productive year at Plazi.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9,601 articles have been processed from 173 different journals resulting in 82,082 taxonomic treatments, 62,958 scientific figures uploaded to the &lt;a href=&#34;https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/?page=1&amp;amp;size=20&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository&lt;/a&gt; (BLR), including 314,881 bibliographic references of which 37,120 have a digital object identifier (DOI).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 3,177 articles published in 2017 that we mined for data  included one new family, 330 new genera and 5,145 new species, and a total of 30,091 taxonomic treatments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The TreatmentBank now includes  216,868 taxonomic treatments from 26,727 articles; of the 850,781 bibliographic references 79,205 have DOI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&#34;http://biolitrepo.org/&#34;&gt;Biodiversity Literature Repository&lt;/a&gt; now includes 167,681 open access figures and 12,586 open access publications.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Data is transferred on a daily base to the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gbif.org/publisher/7ce8aef0-9e92-11dc-8738-b8a03c50a862&#34;&gt;Global Biodiversity Information Facility&lt;/a&gt; (GBIF) and to &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/linkout/journals/htmllists.cgi?type_id=9&#34;&gt;NCBI&lt;/a&gt; making Plazi one of the largest name providers to the taxonomic backbone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Access to BLR has been greatly improved with the creation of  standards-compliant and well-documented &lt;a href=&#34;http://plazi.org/news/beitrag/expanded-access-to-images-in-the-biodiversity-literature-repository/b86d1880198c5c7315c2d38ae3a82820/&#34;&gt;Zenodeo API&lt;/a&gt;, a nodejs (server-side JavaScript) API that queries the Zenodo API with more BLR-specific queries.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new web application called  &lt;a href=&#34;https://ocellus.punkish.org/&#34;&gt;Ocellus&lt;/a&gt;, now provides  improved access to the image store in the BLR.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2018 promises to be an exciting year at Plazi.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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