Biota: putting real specimen identifiers at

the centerJohn T. Longino, University of Utah

Niche Modeling, Climate Envelopes, Response to Global Climate Change,

Predicting Invasive Species

•History•Description•Derek's Questions

•User Audience•GBIF•Barcoding•Georeferencing•Web•Security•Pros/Cons

•Specimen Barcodes/Records

specimen

collectionspeciescode

depositedowned bydetermined bydate det.mediumstage/sex

collection

locality

date collectedcollected bymethodhabitat

speciescode

genus

subgenus

Specimen

Table

SpeciesTable

Collection

Table

species

•Derek's Questions•User Audience

•Small to medium size collections•Biodiversity inventory projects•Single investigators

•Derek's Questions•GBIF

No?

•Derek's Questions•Barcoding

Definitely!

•Derek's Questions•Georeferencing

•latitude and longitude•GPS error•Extent•Maximum error (GPS error + extent)•Datum

•Derek's Questions•Web

•Export static pages•On-board web server•Biota 4Dserver/4Dclient

•Derek's Questions•Security

•Derek's Questions•Pros/Cons

Pros:•Great manual•Cheap•Simple•Specimen Codes

•Core function•Flexible

Cons:•Limited field structure•Obsolescence (no support)

Specimen Records

JTL sp1 JTLJTL 2001

ident deposited det by det date

Time

JTL

INBio

sp1 JTLJTL 2001

ident deposited det by det date

sp1 JTLJTL 2001

JTL

INBio

sp2 JTLJTL 2003

ident deposited det by det date

sp1 JTLJTL 2001

JTL

INBio

sp2 JTLMCZ 2003

ident deposited det by det date

sp1 JTLJTL 2001

MCZ sp2 JTLMCZ 2003

JTL

INBio

sp3 JTLMCZ 2007

ident deposited det by det date

sp1 JTLJTL 2001

MCZ sp2 JTLMCZ 2003

JTL

INBio

sp3 JTLMCZ 2007

ident deposited det by det date

sp1 JTLJTL 2001

MCZ sp4 SCMCZ 2009

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