User:Daniel Mietchen/Semantic integration of the biodiversity literature

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Scholarly

• Hardisty, A.; Roberts, D.; Biodiversity Informatics Community; Addink, W.; Aelterman, B.; Agosti, D.; Amaral-Zettler, L.; Ariño, A. H.; et al. (2013). "A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: Challenges and priorities". BMC Ecology. 13: 16. doi:10.1186/1472-6785-13-16. PMID 23587026.
• Costello, M. J.; Michener, W. K.; Gahegan, M.; Zhang, Z. Q.; Bourne, P. E. (2013). "Biodiversity data should be published, cited, and peer reviewed". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 28 (8): 454. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.002.
• Berendsohn, W.; Güntsch, A.; Hoffmann, N.; Kohlbecker, A.; Luther, K.; Müller, A. (2011). "Biodiversity information platforms: From standards to interoperability". ZooKeys. 150 (150): 71–87. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2166. PMC 3234432. PMID 22207807.
• King, D.; Morse, D.; Willis, A.; Dil, A. (2011). "Towards the bibliography of life". ZooKeys. 150 (150): 151–166. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2167. PMC 3234436. PMID 22207811.
• Penev, L.; Lyal, C.; Weitzman, A.; Morse, D.; King, D.; Sautter, G.; Georgiev, T.; Morris, R.; Catapano, T.; Agosti, D. (2011). "XML schemas and mark-up practices of taxonomic literature". ZooKeys. 150 (150): 89–116. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2213. PMC 3234433. PMID 22207808.
• Leon Bottou (2011). "From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning". arXiv:1102.1808 [cs.AI].
• Miller, J.; Dikow, T.; Agosti, D.; Sautter, G.; Catapano, T.; Penev, L.; Zhang, Z. Q.; Pentcheff, D.; Pyle, R.; Blum, S.; Parr, C.; Freeland, C.; Garnett, T.; Ford, L. S.; Muller, B.; Smith, L.; Strader, G.; Georgiev, T.; Bénichou, L. (2012). "From taxonomic literature to cybertaxonomic content". BMC Biology. 10: 87. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-10-87. PMC 3485131. PMID 23114078.
• Plikus, M. V.; Zhang, Z.; Chuong, C. M. (2006). "PubFocus: Semantic MEDLINE/PubMed citations analytics through integration of controlled biomedical dictionaries and ranking algorithm". BMC Bioinformatics. 7: 424. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-424. PMC 1618408. PMID 17014720.
• Page, R. D. (2011). "Extracting scientific articles from a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library". BMC Bioinformatics. 12: 187–1522. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-187. PMC 3129327. PMID 21605356.
• Magurran, A. E. (2010). "Q&A: What is biodiversity?". BMC Biology. 8: 145–1356. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-8-145. PMC 3002324. PMID 21159210.
• Krell, F. T. (2012). "Electronic publication of new animal names - an interview with Frank-T. Krell, Commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and Chair of the ICZN ZooBank Committee". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12: 184–1936. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-184. PMC 3483210. PMID 22978411.
• Penev, L.; Agosti, D.; Georgiev, T.; Catapano, T.; Miller, J.; Blagoderov, V.; Roberts, D.; Smith, V.; Brake, I.; Ryrcroft, S.; Scott, B.; Johnson, N.; Morris, R.; Sautter, G.; Chavan, V.; Robertson, T.; Remsen, D.; Stoev, P.; Parr, C.; Knapp, S.; Kress, W. J.; Thompson, C.; Erwin, T. (2010). "Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples". ZooKeys. 50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.50.538.
• Moritz, T.; Krishnan, S.; Roberts, D.; Ingwersen, P.; Agosti, D.; Penev, L.; Cockerill, M.; Chavan, V. (2011). "Towards mainstreaming of biodiversity data publishing: Recommendations of the GBIF Data Publishing Framework Task Group". BMC Bioinformatics. 12: S1. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-S15-S1.
• Chavan, V.; Penev, L. (2011). "The data paper: A mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science". BMC Bioinformatics. 12: S2. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-S15-S2.
• Zhou, X.; Adamowicz, S. J.; Jacobus, L. M.; Dewalt, R. E.; Hebert, P. D. (2009). "Towards a comprehensive barcode library for arctic life - Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada". Frontiers in Zoology. 6: 30. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-30. PMC 2800108. PMID 20003245.
• Chavan, V. S.; Ingwersen, P. (2009). "Towards a data publishing framework for primary biodiversity data: Challenges and potentials for the biodiversity informatics community". BMC Bioinformatics. 10: S2. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S2.
• Hrynaszkiewicz, I.; Busch, S.; Cockerill, M. J. (2013). "Licensing the future: Report on BioMed Central's public consultation on open data in peer-reviewed journals". BMC Research Notes. 6: 318. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-6-318. PMC 3751723. PMID 23962139.
• Hrynaszkiewicz, I.; Cockerill, M. J. (2012). "Open by default: A proposed copyright license and waiver agreement for open access research and data in peer-reviewed journals". BMC Research Notes. 5: 494. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-5-494. PMC 3465200. PMID 22958225.
• Riedel, A.; Sagata, K.; Suhardjono, Y. R.; Tänzler, R.; Balke, M. (2013). "Integrative taxonomy on the fast track - towards more sustainability in biodiversity research". Frontiers in Zoology. 10 (1): 15. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-10-15. PMID 23537182.
• Wieczorek, J.; Bloom, D.; Guralnick, R.; Blum, S.; Döring, M.; Giovanni, R.; Robertson, T.; Vieglais, D. (2012). Sarkar, Indra Neil, ed. "Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard". PLoS ONE. 7 (1): e29715. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715. PMC 3253084. PMID 22238640.
• Zhang, Z.; Cheung, K. -H.; Townsend, J. P. (2008). "Bringing Web 2.0 to bioinformatics". Briefings in Bioinformatics. 10 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1093/bib/bbn041. PMC 2638627. PMID 18842678.
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• Balke, M.; Schmidt, S.; Hausmann, A.; Toussaint, E. F.; Bergsten, J.; Buffington, M.; Häuser, C. L.; Kroupa, A.; Hagedorn, G.; Riedel, A.; Polaszek, A.; Ubaidillah, R.; Krogmann, L.; Zwick, A.; Fiká Ek, M.; Hájek, J. Í.; Michat, M. C.; Dietrich, C.; La Salle, J.; Mantle, B.; Ng, P. K.; Hobern, D. (2013). "Biodiversity into your hands - A call for a virtual global natural history 'metacollection'". Frontiers in Zoology. 10 (1): 55. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-10-55. PMID 24044698.
• Sansone, S. A.; Rocca-Serra, P.; Field, D.; Maguire, E.; Taylor, C.; Hofmann, O.; Fang, H.; Neumann, S.; Tong, W.; Amaral-Zettler, L.; Begley, K.; Booth, T.; Bougueleret, L.; Burns, G.; Chapman, B.; Clark, T.; Coleman, L. A.; Copeland, J.; Das, S.; De Daruvar, A.; De Matos, P.; Dix, I.; Edmunds, S.; Evelo, C. T.; Forster, M. J.; Gaudet, P.; Gilbert, J.; Goble, C.; Griffin, J. L.; Jacob, D. (2012). "Toward interoperable bioscience data". Nature Genetics. 44 (2): 121–126. doi:10.1038/ng.1054. PMC 3428019. PMID 22281772.
• Yamamoto, Y.; Yamaguchi, A.; Yonezawa, A. (2013). "Building Linked Open Data towards integration of biomedical scientific literature with DBpedia". Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 4 (1): 8. doi:10.1186/2041-1480-4-8. PMC 3621846. PMID 23497538.
• Altschul, S.; Demchak, B.; Durbin, R.; Gentleman, R.; Krzywinski, M.; Li, H.; Nekrutenko, A.; Robinson, J.; Rasband, W.; Taylor, J.; Trapnell, C. (2013). "The anatomy of successful computational biology software". Nature Biotechnology. 31 (10): 894–897. doi:10.1038/nbt.2721. PMID 24104757.
• Budura, A.; Cudré-Mauroux, P.; Aberer, K. (2007). "From bioinformatic web portals to semantically integrated Data Grid networks". Future Generation Computer Systems. 23 (3): 485. doi:10.1016/j.future.2006.03.002.
• Beck, J. (2011). "NISO Z39.96 the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS): What Happened to the NLM DTDs?". The Journal of Electronic Publishing. 14. doi:10.3998/3336451.0014.106.
• Needleman, M. H. (2012). "NISO Z39.96-201x, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite". Serials Review. 38 (3): 213–214. doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2012.08.006.
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• Page, R. (2009). "BioGUID: Resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics". BMC Bioinformatics. 10: S5. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S5. PMC 2775151. PMID 19900301.
• Bourne, P. (2005). "Will a Biological Database Be Different from a Biological Journal?". PLoS Computational Biology. 1 (3): e34. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010034. PMC 1193993. PMID 16158097.
• Agosti, D.; Egloff, W. (2009). "Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: The Plazi approach". BMC Research Notes. 2: 53. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-53. PMC 2673227. PMID 19331688.
• Fontaine, B. T.; Van Achterberg, K.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A.; Araujo, R.; Asche, M.; Aspöck, H.; Aspöck, U.; Audisio, P.; Aukema, B.; Bailly, N.; Balsamo, M.; Bank, R. A.; Belfiore, C.; Bogdanowicz, W.; Boxshall, G.; Burckhardt, D.; Chylarecki, P. A.; Deharveng, L.; Dubois, A.; Enghoff, H.; Fochetti, R.; Fontaine, C.; Gargominy, O.; Gomez Lopez, M. S. G.; Goujet, D.; Harvey, M. S.; Heller, K. G.; Van Helsdingen, P.; Hoch, H.; De Jong, Y. (2012). Schierwater, Bernd, ed. "New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy". PLoS ONE. 7 (5): e36881. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036881. PMC 3359328. PMID 22649502.
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• Coles, S. J.; Frey, J. G.; Bird, C. L.; Whitby, R. J.; Day, A. E. (2013). "First steps towards semantic descriptions of electronic laboratory notebook records". Journal of Cheminformatics. 5: 52. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-5-52.
• Frey, J. G.; Bird, C. L. (2013). "Cheminformatics and the Semantic Web: Adding value with linked data and enhanced provenance". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science. 3 (5): 465. doi:10.1002/wcms.1127.
• Masum, H.; Rao, A.; Good, B. M.; Todd, M. H.; Edwards, A. M.; Chan, L.; Bunin, B. A.; Su, A. I.; Thomas, Z.; Bourne, P. E. (2013). "Ten Simple Rules for Cultivating Open Science and Collaborative R&D". PLoS Computational Biology. 9 (9): e1003244. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244.
• Hrynaszkiewicz, I.; Busch, S.; Cockerill, M. J. (2013). "Licensing the future: Report on BioMed Central's public consultation on open data in peer-reviewed journals". BMC Research Notes. 6: 318. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-6-318. PMC 3751723. PMID 23962139.
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Information extraction and Natural language processing

“ All accumulated information of a species is tied to a scientific name, a name that serves as a link between what has been learned in the past and what we today add to the body of knowledge. ” — Grimaldi & Engel, 2005, Evolution of the Insects

JATS-Con papers

Overview.

• Implementation of TaxPub, an NLM DTD extension for domain-specific markup in taxonomy, from the experience of a biodiversity publisher
• Reducing costs and expanding XML submissions with PDF to JATS conversion
• Inconsistent XML as a Barrier to Reuse of Open Access Content
• Book Publishing with JATS
• From Markup to Linked Data: Mapping NISO JATS v1.0 to RDF using the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies

Wikipedia

• Biodiversity
• Annotation
• Markup language
• Semantic Web
• Linked Open Data (LOD)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe (BHL-Europe)
• Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)
• Expert system
• Astronomical naming conventions
  • cited on Taxacom as an example for naming and classification systems working independently
• Optical character recognition
• Serialization