Paying it forward: Crowdsourcing the harmonisation and linking of taxon names and biodiversity identifiers.

ABSTRACT: Linking records for the same taxa between different databases is an essential step when working with biodiversity data. However, name-matching alone is error-prone, because of issues such as homonyms (unrelated taxa with the same name) and synonyms (same taxon under different names). Therefore, most projects will require some curation to ensure that taxon identifiers are correctly linked. Unfortunately, formal guidance on such curation is uncommon and these steps are often ad hoc and poorly documented, which hinders transparency and reproducibility, yet the task requires specialist knowledge and cannot be easily automated without careful validation. Here, we present a case study on linking identifiers between the GBIF and NCBI taxonomies for a species checklist. This represents a common sc

SUBMITTER: Seah BKB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10838036 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature