Plazi

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Plazi is a Swiss-based international non-profit association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital

Biodiversity Informatics.[3]

The approach was originally developed in a binational National Science Foundation (NSF) and

University of Karlsruhe, respectively, to create an XML schema modeling the content of bio-systematic literature. The TaxonX schema is applied to legacy publications using GoldenGATE,[4]
a semiautomatic editor. In its current state GoldenGATE is a complex mark up tool allowing community involvement in the process of rendering documents into semantically enhanced documents.

Plazi developed ways to make distribution records in published taxonomic literature accessible through a TAPIR service that is harvested by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).[5] Similarly, the Species Page Model (SPM) transfer schema has been implemented to allow harvesting of treatments (the scientific descriptions of species and higher taxa) by third parties such as the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). At the moment, Darwin Core Archives are used to transfer treatment data to Global Biodiversity Information Facility, providing with 33,623 datasets over 50% of all the datasets in GBIF.[6] If available, the treatments are enhanced with links to external databases such as GenBank, The Hymenoptera Name Server for scientific names or ZooBank, the registry of zoological names.

Plazi claims it adheres to copyright law and argues that

literary and artistic work. Plazi claims that such works are therefore in the public domain and can be freely used and disseminated (with scientific practice requiring appropriate citation).[7][8]

See also

  • Biodiversity Informatics
  • Biodiversity Information Standards

References

  1. ^ "TreatmentBank". plazi.org. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  2. ^ Catapano, Terry. "Taxpub". Plazi. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  3. PMID 19555493
    .
  4. ^ Sautter, Guido. "GoldenGATE Editor". Plazi, Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  5. ^ "Plazidata in GBIF". Plazi. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  6. ^ "Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database". gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  7. PMID 19331688
    .
  8. S2CID 55591360. Archived from the original
    on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2009-10-27.

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