Plazi and the Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) awarded EUR 1.1 million from Arcadia Fund to grant free access to biodiversity data

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Tagged biodiversity, biodiversity data, Biodiversity Literature Repository, bioinformatics, open data, open science, PlaziLeave a comment

June 14, 2018

Plazi has received a grant of EUR 1.1 million from Arcadia – the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to liberate data, such as taxonomic treatments and images, trapped in scholarly biodiversity publications. The project will expand the existing corpus of the Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR), a joint venture of Plazi and Pensoft, hosted on Zenodo at CERN. […]

Novel cybercatalog of flower-loving flies suggests the digital future of taxonomy

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Tagged Africa, apiocerid, Apioceridae‬, BHL, biodiversity, BioStor, cybercatalog, data, Diptera, DOI, EoL, EU BON, flower-loving flies, fly, GBIF, Morphbank, nomenclature, Plazi, taxonomy, ZooBankLeave a comment

October 8, 2015

Charting Earth’s biodiversity is the goal of taxonomy and to do so the scientists need to create an extensive citation network based on several hundred million pages of scientific literature. By providing a novel taxonomic ‘cybercatalog’ of southern African flower-loving (apiocerid) flies, Drs. Torsten Dikow and Donat Agosti demonstrate how the network of taxonomic knowledge […]