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Linking things together: why? #4

Open rdmpage opened 5 years ago

rdmpage commented 5 years ago

What is the value in linking together in projects such Ozymandias? What specific questions can we get answers to, what would get taxonomists, systematists, natural history collections excited?

rdmpage commented 5 years ago

One example would be joining the dots between a specimen, a sequence, and a paper. For example, for Banksia scabrella A.S.George there are two sequences, one is AF482270.1. There is no specimen data, but there is a link to a paper PMID 21665734, which has a DOI 10.3732/ajb.89.8.1311. The paper doesn't have the specimens either, but there is supplementary data available via American Journal of Botany Supplementary Data Site - 2002 WordPDF from which we can get the collector info: A.R.Mast & D.S.Feller 352 (WIS) and we can use 352 to filter the GBIF specimens for Banksia scabrella and find occurrence 996679358, which also has OccurrenceID 0caa4e6f-eeb2-4f35-808c-64b9cddd530c. Unfortunately this doesn't match anything in ALA, which has this specimen as https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/41f245d4-0365-4a49-8963-3fb91d9a07ee (see https://biocache-ws.ala.org.au/ws/occurrence/41f245d4-0365-4a49-8963-3fb91d9a07ee for API details). The GBIF specimen does have the ALA taxon guid http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2910413 used in the ALA URL.

Note that the vouchers for these sequences are held in Wisconsin (WIS) not PERTH.

rdmpage commented 5 years ago

Note that iBOL has some Banksia sequences, e.g.https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?dataset_key=040c5662-da76-4782-a48e-cdea1892d14c&taxon_key=7123751 AY825002 from A. R. Mast and D. S. Feller 348 (WIS)