Going global by going local: Impacts and opportunities of geographically focused data integration-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Going global by going local: Impacts and opportunities of geographically focused data integration

Published:2024-08-30 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0006-3568
Container-title:BioScience
language:en
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Author:

Lagisz Malgorzata¹²^ORCID,Westgate Martin³^ORCID,Kellie Dax³^ORCID,Nakagawa Shinichi⁴²⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Evolution and Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Science at the University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia

2. Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University , Onna , Japan

3. Atlas of Living Australia, National Collections and Marine Infrastructure, Commonwealth Scientific, Industrial Research Organisation , Canberra , Australia

4. Evolution and Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth, Environmental Science at the University of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia

5. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta , Edmonton , Canada

Abstract

Abstract Biodiversity conservation is a global challenge that requires the integration of global and local data. Expanding global data infrastructures have opened unprecedented opportunities for biodiversity data storage, curation, and dissemination. Within one such infrastructure—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)—these benefits are achieved by aggregating data from over 100 regional infrastructure nodes. Such, regional biodiversity infrastructures benefit scientific communities in ways that exceed their core function of contributing to global data aggregation, but these additional scientific impacts are rarely quantified. To fill this gap, we characterize the scientific impact of the Atlas of Living Australia, one of the oldest and largest GBIF nodes, as a case study of a regional biodiversity information facility. Our discussion reveals the multifaceted impact of the regional biodiversity data infrastructure. We showcase the global importance of such infrastructures, data sets, and collaborations.

Funder

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Link

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae070/58970151/biae070.pdf

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