4. Problem 1: Linking specimens to evidence
• GrBio has rules for generating new specimen
codes
• Need retrospective rules for recognising
specimen codes in literature/databases
5.
6. Problem 2: GrBio and GBIF, why?
Physical institutions
Physical collections
Physical institutions
Digital collections
HTTP Installations
7. Problem 3: Putting the bite into Bouchout
Wikipedia
(multiple languages)
Machine-readable wikipedia
Publisher, library,
digital archive
How open is the data?
8. Suggestions
• Map to other identifiers (GBIF,
Wikipedia, BHL, VIAF,
Facebook, Twitter)
• Live updates of digitisation
(GBIF, BHL, GitHub)
• User-editable structured data
(e.g., Semantic Mediawiki)