Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research

Arnald Marcer; Elspeth Haston; Quentin Groom; Arturo H. Ariño; Arthur D. Chapman; Torkild Bakken; Paul Braun; Mathias Dillen; Marcus Ernst; Agustí Escobar; David Fichtmüller; Laurence Livermore; Nicky Nicolson; Kaloust Paragamian; Deborah Paul; Lars B. Pettersson; Sarah Phillips; Jack Plummer; Heimo Rainer; Isabel Rey; Tim Robertson; Dominik Röpert; Joaquim Santos; Francesc Uribe; John R. Wieczorek

doi:10.1111/ddi.13208

Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research

Arnald Marcer, Elspeth Haston, Quentin Groom, Arturo H. Ariño, Arthur D. Chapman, Torkild Bakken, Paul Braun, Mathias Dillen, Marcus Ernst, Agustí Escobar, David Fichtmüller, Laurence Livermore, Nicky Nicolson, Kaloust Paragamian, Deborah Paul, Lars B. Pettersson, Sarah Phillips, Jack Plummer, Heimo Rainer, Isabel ReyTim Robertson, Dominik Röpert, Joaquim Santos, Francesc Uribe, John R. Wieczorek

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Natural history collections constitute an enormous wealth of information of Life on Earth. It is estimated that over 2 billion specimens are preserved at institutions worldwide, of which less than 10% are accessible via biodiversity data aggregators such as GBIF. Moreover, they are a very important resource for eco-evolutionary research, which greatly depends on knowing the precise location where the specimens were collected in order to characterize the environment in which they lived. Yet, only about 55% of the accessible records are georeferenced and only 31% have coordinate uncertainty information, which is critical for conducting rigorous studies. The awareness of this gap of knowledge which hinders the enormous potential of such data in research led to the organization of a workshop which brought together key players in georeferencing of natural history collections. The discussion and outcomes of this workshop are here presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	564-567
Journal	Diversity and Distributions
Volume	27
Issue number	3
Early online date	2020 Dec 3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13208
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Biological Sciences
Bioinformatics (Computational Biology)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Ecology
Biological Systematics

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eco-evolutionary research
georeferencing
global biodiversity information facility
natural history collections
uncertainty
workshop

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Marcer, A., Haston, E., Groom, Q., Ariño, A. H., Chapman, A. D., Bakken, T., Braun, P., Dillen, M., Ernst, M., Escobar, A., Fichtmüller, D., Livermore, L., Nicolson, N., Paragamian, K., Paul, D., Pettersson, L. B., Phillips, S., Plummer, J., Rainer, H., ... Wieczorek, J. R. (2021). Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research. Diversity and Distributions, 27(3), 564-567. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13208

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Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research

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