Making small data big: The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)
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Making small data big:The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ)
Lyubomir D. Penev1,3, Teodor A. Georgiev3, Pavel E. Stoev2,3, David M. Roberts4 & Vincent S. Smith4
ViBRANTpensoft.net/journals/bdj
1 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgaria2 National Natural History Museum, Bulgaria
3 Pensoft Publishers4 The Natural History Museum, UK
19th International Congress of Arachnology (ICA 2013) Kenting National Park, Taiwan; June 23-28, 2013
Primary data
Drawings: slavenapeneva.com
Primary data
Publishing and sharing of primary data
RE-USEof
CONTENT
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open data increases transparency and the overall quality of science published data can be verified by other researchers it can be integrated with other datasets it increases the potential for interdisciplinary research duplication of data-collecting efforts and associated costs will be reduced published data can be indexed and made discoverable
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Incentives for authors and institutions to publish data
Key features
Biological Codes compliant article templatesNo lower/upper limit of manuscript sizeSemantically enhanced “articles of the future”Integrated with GBIF, EOL, Dryad, Scratchpads, etc.
ALL DATA MATTERS!
Manuscripts are automatically formatted during the writing process
Avoids layout stage, decreases costs and efforts!
Automated registrationMANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
MANUSCRIPT ACCEPTED
XML Response
ARTICLEPUBLISHED
Taxon name available/valid (effectively published)
XML article metadata
XML Query
Peer review
Automated import of treatments from Scratchpads and author’s own databases
No installation!Just register and go!
NO Author Guidelines!The tool guides you!
Choose article template
Authors can choose the review type
Add author
Taxon treatment: new species
Taxon treatment: import material data
Taxon treatment: upload of images
Key preview
Life cycle of data published in the BDJ
BIODIVERSITYMANUSCRIPT
Occurrence data Genome dada
Image galleries
Morphometric data
Environmental data
Phylogenetic data
Any other data
XML MARK UP
Structured text (data!)
ARTICLESOccurrence
dataTaxon namesTaxon treatments
Plazi
BHL
Wiki COL
Biblio-graphies
Thank you for listening!
ViBRANT
Lyubomir Penev
Vince Smith
Dave Roberts
Teodor Georgiev
19th International Congress of Arachnology (ICA 2013) Kenting National Park, Taiwan; June 23-28, 2013
We Open Access!