Glossary of Terms: Difference between revisions

This table provides acronymns, abbreviations, research and collections tools, terms, and organizations and projects useful to the iDigBio community for research, data management, education and other primary biodiversity data uses.  

Tags can be used to sort the different categories found in this table. Updated June 2016.

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|valign="top"|http://www.boldsystems.org/<br>  

|valign="top"|The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is a web platform that provides an integrated environment for the assembly and use of DNA barcode data. It delivers an online database for the collection and management of specimen, distributional, and molecular data as well as analytical tools to support their validation.

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|valign="top"|BSA<br>

|valign="top"|No website found<br> http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639214

|valign="top"|CollectionsWeb was formerly an outreach of The Research Coordination Network (RCN) for Building a National Community of Natural History Collections, which started as a way to build communication among people at natural history collections, researchers using those collections, other programs dealing with issues important to collections, and other stakeholders. The goal of this project is to build community among natural history collections and for CollectionsWeb to serve as an online hub for collections-based activities. It provides links to sites with specimen data, but does not deliver data, itself. DBI-0639214

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|valign="top"|CombineZ

|valign="top"|cloud computing, data repository, research tools

|valign="top"|http://www.cyverse.org/

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|valign="top"|DAMS

|valign="top"|http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/collections/databases/

|valign="top"|Public interface for biodiversity (collections, etc.), including web mapping application, for Florida. Initial proof of concept for FLMNH Biodiversity Institute, but no existing funding.  

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|valign="top"|DINA

|valign="top"|http://ezid.cdlib.org/

|valign="top"|Long-term identifiers made easy. EZID (easy-eye-dee) makes it easy to create & manage unique, long-term identifiers.

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|valign="top"|Fauna Europaea<br>

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|valign="top"|Fishbase

|valign="top"|data aggregator, nomenclature, taxonomy

|valign="top"|http://www.fishbase.org/

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|valign="top"|FishNet2

|valign="top"|http://www.geotagphotos.net/

|valign="top"|Add GPS capabilities to your mobile device for the fraction of the cost of a dedicated GPS logger. consists of a mobile app (for iOS or Android) that records your position while you’re taking great photos and a desktop app that geotags your images using recorded data. All your recorded routes can then be exported as a GPX file via Dropbox, email, or the web.

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|valign="top"|GitHub

|valign="top"|GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data.

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|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN

|valign="top"|http://herbarium.wisc.edu/GreatLakes.htm<br>http://greatlakesinvasives.org/<br>[[Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes|iDigBio summary]]

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|valign="top"|GigaPan<br>CaptureStudio<br>

|valign="top"|No website found  

|valign="top"|This project offers proof of concept and an initial implementation of 'one-button' specimen imaging and data capture by which clicking the shutter on a digital camera would initiate a sequence that culminates with the population of label data and a specimen image into a structured collection database. The ultimate goal is to reduce the total cost of digital collection data capture by significantly reducing human labor required and total project duration. Significant gains can be achieved by developing appropriate protocols and methodologies, then packaging them as web services. Much of this can be accomplished by applying existing technology to data acquisition bottlenecks.

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|valign="top"|HerpNET

|valign="top"|https://github.com/iDigBio/idq

|valign="top"|iDigBio's data quality standard library.

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|valign="top"|IGSN<br>

|valign="top"|cloud computing, data management

|valign="top"|http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/  

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|valign="top"|IPNI

|valign="top"|http://lichenportal.org/portal/<br>http://bryophyteportal.org/portal/<br>[[North_American_Lichens_and_Bryophytes_-_Sensitive_Indicators_of_Environmental_Quality_and_Change|iDigBio summary]]

|valign="top"|This project will image about 2.3 million North American lichen and bryophyte specimens from more than 60 collections to address questions of how species distributions change after major environmental events, both in the past and projected into the future.  

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|valign="top"|LibXML<br>

|valign="top"|http://www.mississippiplants.org/

|valign="top"|Project Magnolia grandiFLORA is an effort to digitize herbaria throughout Mississippi and to provide scientific and educational resources to the citizens of Mississippi and researchers around the world.  

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|valign="top"|MaNIS

|valign="top"|http://www.paleoportal.org/  

|valign="top"|This site is a resource for anyone interested in paleontology, from the professional in the lab to the interested amateur scouting for fossils to the student in any classroom. Many resources are gathered into this single entry "portal" to paleontological information on the Internet.  

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|valign="top"|Pensoft

|valign="top"|http://phylolink.ala.org.au/

|valign="top"|Phylolink is a collection of tools through which biodiversity can be explored from a phylogenetic (or tree of life) perspective. At the core of these tools is the ability to easily intersect a phylogenetic tree with species occurrence records, environmental data, and species character information. The result is powerful ways of combining data to generate flexible and customisable visualisations, profiles and metrics for biodiversity. Phylolink builds upon PhyloJIVE, which was developed by CSIRO, the Taxonomy Research and Information Network (TRIN), and the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR).

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|valign="top"|Planting Science<br>

|valign="top"|http://www.torcherbaria.org/

|valign="top"|The Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria was developed to advocate for and to organize herbaria in Texas and Oklahoma.

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|valign="top"|TreeBASE<br>