[Taxacom] Digitizing Science Collections

[John Grehan]

This is a nice example of quality control, but of course it does not
preclude error still being present - that being why we have voucher
specimens for future potential corroboration.

John Grehan

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Cristian Ruiz Altaba <
cruizaltaba at dgcc.caib.es> wrote:

> Some years ago Bermuda started an ambitious and award-winning project to
> map its biodiversity:
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> http://www.gov.bm/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=206&&PageID=209&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true
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> and also:
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>  http://www.ukotcf.org/pdf/calpe/calpe064-068.pdf)
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> The nicest part of it, I think, is that any record or sighting or label is
> called "a biodiversity event". In order to be eventually accepted and
> placed into a map, it must pass a number of screening tests. Each step has
> a responsible scientist validating the record, and all such signed
> validations are part of the actual record. In this way, citizen science can
> contribute enormously. And it provides a control method for any kind of
> biodiversity data.
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> Best,
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> Cristian
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