Document of bibliographic reference 288657

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Title

Taxonaut: an application software for comparative display of multiple taxonomies with a use case of GBIF Species API

Abstract

Background: The Species API of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) provides public access to taxonomic data aggregated from multiple data sources. Each data source follows its own classification which can be inconsistent with classifications from other sources. Even with a reference classification e.g. the GBIF Backbone taxonomy, a comprehensive method to compare classifications in the data aggregation is essential, especially for non-expert users. New information: A Java application was developed to compare multiple taxonomies graphically using classification data acquired from GBIF’s ChecklistBank via the GBIF Species API. It uses a table to display taxonomies where each column represents a taxonomy under comparison, with an aligner column to organise taxa by name. Each cell contains the name of a taxon if the classification in that column contains the name. Each column also has a cell showing the hierarchy of the taxonomy by a folder metaphor where taxa are aligned and synchronised in the aligner column. A set of those comparative tables shows taxa categorised by relationship between taxonomies. The result set is also available as tables in an Excel format file.

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https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000449618200134

Bibliographic citation

Ytow, N. (2016). Taxonaut: an application software for comparative display of multiple taxonomies with a use case of GBIF Species API. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e9787. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.4.e9787

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open access

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true