Format: ORAL

Joseph T. Miller

Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark

In collaboration with Index Herbariorum, GBIF has rebuilt and manages the Global Registry of Scientific Collections. GRSciColl contains collection information for over 5,500 herbaria and synchronizes weekly with Index Herbariorum. GBIF has aligned over 104 million plant and fungal specimen records to herbaria GRSCiColl records. Each herbarium that shares data with GBIF has a collection data page which, in addition to collection metadata, contains an informative dashboard summarizing data by taxon, IUCN threat status, collectors, identifiers, and origin of specimen. These statistics are also summarized across national and taxonomic groups in various GBIF hosted portals managed by the community. The specimen alignment to the collections is part of GBIFs work to update our Darwin Core based data model. GBIF runs a clustering algorithm weekly to identify potential relationship between records such as: types, duplicates, literature citations, DNA sequences, and phylogenies. The clustered records are viewable in the Related tab on a hosted portal. GBIF is developing a material catalogue that integrates these related records into a single record. This record includes data shared by the specimen holder such taxonomic, spatial data and often images, as well as related data about the specimen that has been shared via GenBank (or ENA), BOLD, literature citations in taxonomic revisions, published phylogenetic trees, and trait datasets. To improve data quality GBIF encourages community curation of taxonomic, phylogenetic, and spatial data. As demonstrated in the Legume Portal, we invite taxonomic revisions to be published to ChecklistBank, a GBIF-Catalogue of Life collaboration. From ChecklistBank the taxonomic data can be viewed on a taxon specific data portal and be quickly integrated into GBIFs taxonomic backbone to improve the quality of the specimens shared with GBIF. A similar phylogenetic pipeline is available on the portal in partnership with Open Tree of Life.