Jeremy Miller1,2, Donat Agosti2,3, Guido Sautter2, Terry Catapano2,4, David King5, Serrano Pereira1, Rutger Vos1, Soraya Sierra1

Unlocking the LegacyThe Untapped Value of Data in Taxonomic Literature

1. Naturalis Biodiveristy Center, Leiden, Netherlands; 2. Plazi, Zinggstrasse 16, Bern, Switzerland; 3. Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland; 4. Columbia University, New York, United States of America; 5. The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Report from the pro-iBiosphere Spider Pilot and data visualization hackathon

Records: 230,000,000Species: 165,000

Species occurrence data in GBIF: Animals

GBIF Records Species in GBIF

Plants

Birds

Hymenoptera

Spiders

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Species occurrence data in GBIF

Moritz, C., K.S. Richardson, S. Ferrier, G.B. Monteith, J. Stanisic, S.E. Williams, T. Whiffin. 2001. Biogeographical concordance and efficiency of taxon indicators for establishing conservation priority in a tropical rainforest biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, Series B 268: 1875-1881.

Insects

Snails and Insects•strong predictors of conservation priorities for vertebrates, but not vice versa•have finer-scale distribution patterns and higher local endemicity than vertebrates and plants

Snails Vertebrates Lauraceae

SnailsVertebratesLauraceae

InsectsVertebratesLauraceae

InsectsSnailsVertebrates

InsectsSnailsLauraceae

Testing surrogates to establish conservation priorities

Value of species occurrence data

Number of Collection Records in Physical Versus Digital Form, by Collection

Cybertaxonomic Publication Venue

Drawings: slavenapeneva.com

Collect specimensMake ObservationsAnalyze Data and Write Manuscript

Primary Data

TraditionalPublication VenuePDF Prison

GoldenGATE XML Markup Editor

TaxonX XML Schema

Thanks: Lyubomir Penev

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12,000 Taxonomic Papers on SpidersSince 1757

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34 (~7%)

~500

Countries (Region)Australia (Queensland)

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5170 specimens4062 plottable specimens from1138 unique locations