Person record of Gary Rosenberg

Information

Type
Person
Honorific prefix
Dr
Firstname
Gary
Surname
Rosenberg
Job title
Curator
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2558-7640
Description @en
Gary has been developing databases of marine mollusks since the early 1990s and his Malacolog database for Western Atlantic species has been online since 1995. He has been involved with WoRMS since 2009 as one of the editors for Mollusca and is one of the core group that developed MolluscaBase as an outgrowth of WoRMS. The data assembled in WoRMS enabled his 2014 publication estimating global diversity of Recent Mollusca. It has been gratifying to see WoRMS become a community standard, but he thinks more can be done to improve its usefulness and reliability, such as search interfaces that allow simultaneous access to more fields, better algorithms for name matching, and more rigorous approaches to documentation.

Institutes

Drexel University; Academy of Natural Sciences
role
Curator
MolluscaBase eds.
role
Chief taxonomic editor
WoRMS Editorial Board
role
Chief taxonomic editor

Expertise

taxonomic terms
Mollusca [Molluscs]

record metadata

date created: 2004-11-12
date modified: 2010-10-01