[Taxacom] Conversion of a traditional floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archive format

[Lyubomir Penev]

A conventionally written (MS Word) Checklist of vascular plants of the
Departmentof Ñeembucú,
Paraguay<http://www.pensoft.net/journals/phytokeys/article/2279/checklist-of-vascular-plants-of-the-department-of->(De
Egea et al. 2012), consisting of more than 4,100 taxon names,  was
converted from text into Darwin Core Archive format and published
simultaneously in both human-readable, traditional  publication and
structured, machine-readable data. The process is described in an
associated forum
paper<http://www.pensoft.net/journals/phytokeys/article/2770/from-text-to-structured-data-converting-a-word-processed-floristic-checklist-into-darwin-core-archive-format>(Remsen
et al. 2012).

The process was performed from the final revised version, after peer-review
and editorial acceptance. The data were published and indexed through the
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Integrated Publishing
Toolkit (IPT) and significant portions of the text of the paper were used
to describe the metadata on IPT. After publication, the data will become
available through the GBIF infrastructure and can be re-used on their own
or collated with other data.

The two papers were published in yesterday's
issue<http://www.pensoft.net/journals/phytokeys/issue/9/>of PhytoKeys.
The study was supported in part by the
ViBRANT <http://vbrant.eu/> project.

Best regards,
Lyubomir

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-- 
Prof. Dr. Lyubomir Penev
Managing Director
Pensoft Publishers
13a Geo Milev Street
1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
Fax +359-2-8704282
www.pensoft.net
info at pensoft.net