20 GB in 10 minutes: a case for linking major biodiversity databases using an open socio-technical infrastructure and a pragmatic, cross-institutional collaboration

Biodiversity information is made available through numerous databases that each have their own data models, web services, and data types. Combining data across databases leads to new insights, but is not easy because each database uses its own system of identifiers. In the absence of stable and inte...

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Main Authors: Anne E. Thessen, Jorrit H. Poelen, Matthew Collins, Jen Hammock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-09-01
Series:PeerJ Computer Science
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/cs-164.pdf