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ImplementationCommunal / agreedEssentialPersistentRobust & reliableAdaptable

Data re-use

Data generation

Data pool

AggregationVisualization Analysis Manipulation

ModelsObservations Experiments Processed

Data re-use

Data generation

Data pool

AggregationVisualization Analysis Manipulation

ModelsObservations Experiments Processed

Data re-use

Data generation

Can be used as metadata

To index content

A names-based cyberinfrastructure to index and interconnect distributed data 99

‘The initial mapping was constructed by extracting the scientific name of the taxon that was the topic of each Wikipedia page, then finding the match for this in the NCBI taxonomy’.

Initiated by GBIF & EOL in 2007 To build a names-based cyberinfrastructure An open and free virtual layer that

interconnects and enriches distributed content Shaped through Nomina workshops Overseen by GNA Advisory panel Globalnames.org

PIs: Stan Blum, California Academy of Sciences

Replication

Chris Freeland, Missouri Botanical Gardens / WUSTL

BHL / CiteBank

David Patterson, Arizona State University Names services

Rich Pyle, Bishop Museum ZooBank / GNUB

The “Global Names Architecture,” an innovative infrastructure for unifying nomenclatural and taxonomic databases and services for managers of biological information.

Many names for one species One name for many species The indefinite nature of species Classifications / phylogenies Species without names

Variant spellings (some legitimate, some mistakes) Homotypic synonyms (= objective =

nomenclatural) Heterotypic synonyms (= subjective = taxonomic) Common (plain language) names Surrogates for names Chresonyms

Didymosphenia geminata

Echinella geminata

Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye)

D. geminata

Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) Schmidt 1899

Gomphonema vulgare Bréb.

AAAAAGCTCGTAGTTGGATTTGTGATGGAATTTGAATACTTTTAAAGTGTTCTAGAAACTGTCATCCGTGGGTGGAATTTGTTTGGCATTAGGTTGTCAGRCAGAGGATGCCTATMCTTTACTGTGAAAAAATCAGTGCGTTCAAAGCAGACTTACGTCGATGAATGTATTAGCATGGAA

Didimosphenia geminata

didymo

Rock Snot

didymo

Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) M.Schmidt in A. Schmidt 1899

Misspellings Didimosphenia geminata

Lexical variants Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) Didymosphenia geminata D. geminata D. geminata Schmidt 1899 D. geminata Schmidt

Surrogates

Homotypic Synonyms Echinella geminata

Heterotypic Synonyms Gomphonema vulgare Bréb.

Vernculars Didymo Rock Snot


Gomphonema vulgare Brébisson 1838G. vulgare Breb.Gomphonema vulgare Brébisson 1838G. vulgare Breb.

VernacularsVernaculars

SurrogatesSurrogates

RECONCILIATION GROUPRECONCILIATION GROUP



Gomphonema vulgare Brébisson 1838G. vulgare Breb.Gomphonema vulgare Brébisson 1838G. vulgare Breb.

VernacularsVernaculars

SurrogatesSurrogatesAAAAAGCTCGTAGTTGGATTTGTGATGGAATTTGAATACTTTTAAAGTGTTCTAGAAACTGTCATCCGTGGGTGGAATTTGTTTGGCATTAGGTTGTCAGRCAGAGGATGCCTATMCTTTACTGTGAAAAAATCAGTGCGTTCAAAGCAGACTTACGTCGATGAATGTATTAGCATGGAA


RESOLUTIONRESOLUTION

Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) Schmidt 1899

Using the name endorsed by your favored taxonomic source

Aa Ar Pet1 A marina Abe__Heli Apodemia.mor.A13 N_larina_aethra_20018 Apion pensylvaticum: Boheman 1839 Apion pennsylvaticum Boheman, 1839 Gy091_Lv_Bonn_Ger Gy642_Lv_Bas_Switz P.potto_JCKerbis2889 S.sciereus_U53582 C.major G.crass. L._catta L.catta

Solution: Taxonomic validation at point of data entry

Focus on ‘Use Cases’ And the infrastructure will follow Extend existing software, dbs and services

around the concept of nodes GN UUIDs for names and reconciliation

groups Exchange standards

Particular They represent a class of problems Must be do-able Must visibly benefit many end users Must be openly available to use and to

improve

Taxonomic validation services. At point of data entry or with publishers. Requires Reconciliation and resolution.

Indexing. Using names recognition and discovery tools. Essential for name-linking services.

Names normalization – for data federation, but must deal with poor OCR, colloquial names in many languages etc.

Content synchrony and curation

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