Linking Data Builds Agency and Empowers the Narrators of Science
Join David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) in a webinar presented by the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN):
Join David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) in a webinar presented by the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN):
Reposting: Does Biodiversity Informatics Love Wikidata? by Quentin Groom and Deborah Paul
Release date: 2020-02-21
People need credit for the work they do to make collections and collections data a reality. To do this well, our biocollections community needs robust standards and methods to support this information. Many will reap the benefits of such tracking including those collecting, geoereferencing, and identifying specimens, and those capturing data. To see one example of the benefits of being able to tell who did what to which specimen, have a look at bloodhound.shorthouse.net.