GBIF KOS

Biodiversity Knowledge Organization System

The GBIF Knowledge Organization System (KOS) task group (Catapano et al., 2011) provided recommendations for the uptake of KOS technology by GBIF. The KOS report, as well as some of the previous task group reports on metadata (Jones et al, 2010), persistent identifiers (Cryer et al, 2010; Richards et al, 2011), recommended to build on existing (or to establish new) persistent identifiers for each vocabulary term and concept. These reports further recommended to reuse existing terms and concepts wherever possible.

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References

Catapano T, Hobern D, Lapp H, Morris RA, Morrison N, Noy N, Schildhauer M, and Thau D (2011). Recommendations for the use of knowledge organization systems by GBIF. Released on 4 February 2011. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen. Available at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=2942&l=en, verified 26 March 2012.

Cryer P, Hyam R, Miller C, Nicolson N, O Tuama E, Page R, Rees J, Riccardi G, Richards K, and White R (2010). Adoption of persistent identifiers for biodiversity informatics: Recommendations of the GBIF LSID GUID task group, 6. November 2009. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen. Available at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=2956&l=en, verified 26 March 2012.

Endresen DTF, Ó Tuama É, and Remsen D. (2012a). Vocabulary Management Task Group Charter: A Task Group of the TAG Interest Group. [Technical Report] Available at http://community.gbif.org/pg/blog/read/21387/

Endresen DTF, Ó Tuama É , and Remsen D (2012b). Biodiversity Knowledge Organization System: Proposed Architecture. [Technical Report] Available at http://community.gbif.org/pg/file/read/21582/

Harman KT, Hyam R, Remsen DP (2009). Vocabularies - Managing Them. Proceedings of TDWG 2009 Available at http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/605, verified 26 March 2012.

Jones MB, Bertrand N, Holetschek J, Hutchison V, Ko BC-J, Suarez-Mayorga A, Meaux M, Ulate W, Watts D, Robertson T, O Tuama E (2009). Report of the GBIF metadata implementation framework task group (MIFTG). September 15, 2009. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen. Available at: http://imsgbif.gbif.org/CMS_NEW/get_file.php?FILE=2d85d0e8c76408129024c09aa072d6, verified 26 March 2012.

Richards, K, White R, Nicolson N, Pyle R (2011). A beginner’s guide to persistent identifiers, version 1.0. Released on 9 February 2011. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Copenhagen. Available at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=2428, verified 26 March 2012.

Smith VS, Rycroft SD, Harman KT, Scott B, and Roberts D (2009). Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life. BMC Bioinformatics 10 (Suppl 14) p. S6. DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/S14/S6, verified 26 March 2012.

Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012). Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29715. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715