Transcript Vattakaven India species name reconciliationx

A curation interface for reconciliation
of species names for India.
Thomas Vattakaven and R. Prabhakar, India Biodiversity Portal,
Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore, India
•http://indiabiodiversity.org/
•Aims to aggregate information on the biodiversity of India and make it openly
accessible to all.
•All data is put out under Creative Commons Licences.
Information modules
• Species pages – descriptive content on species
(Crowd sourced from verified users)
• Observations – species sighting records with
media- (Crowd sourced – Citizen science)
• Lists – species records from a locality (Crowd
sourced – Citizen science)
• Maps – map layers containing ecological
information.
• Documents – publications on a species. (Crowd
sourced)
India species name lists
• There is no definitive name list for all the species
in India
• There is scattered information for Indian species
across different global and regional databases.
None are comprehensive.
• Both ZSI and BSI do not provide a complete name
list
• There is a need for a comprehensive name
resolution service to resolve all Indian names to
create a species name list for India’s biodiversity.
Compilation of original species list for IBP
Database species name-list
names
names
Database species name-list
Species lists
Observations
names
names
names
Species Pages
Map layers
Documents
Name resolution
Synonym
Accepted
Name
Misspelt name
Common name
Resolve all available scientific names against a single reference taxonomy
What properties of a name do we need?
Accepted name
Rank
Name Status
AuthorString
Classification
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Accepted name
Synonym,
References
Language
Transliteration
Synonym
Common name
How do we do it?
• The names need to be reorganized based on
some sort of consensus taxonomy.
• 100,000 names (scientific and common) spread
across different taxa and little or no taxonomic
resources.
• A massive one-time exercise will not do, new
names will continually feed in to the portal.
• Can we feed off an existing service that already
handles these issues and adapt it to our needs?
The Catalogue of Life is the most
comprehensive and authoritative
global index of species currently
available. It consists of a single
integrated species checklist and
taxonomic hierarchy. From many
databases - (142 databases with
information
on 1,583,924 species, 146,175 infra
specific taxa and also
includes 1,285,745 synonyms
and 390,258 common names )
CoL contains substantial
contributions of taxonomic
expertise from more than fifty
organizations around the world,
integrated into a single work by the
ongoing work of the CoLP partners.
It has a dynamic list (constantly
evolving) and an annual list that is
published and archived and can be
referenced.
CoL provides a dynamically updating taxonomic
list that covers all taxa and resolves all names
along a consensus taxonomy
It is accepted and used by other major global
initiatives
• However, CoL does not have all Indian species.
• In the Indian context, classification systems for
certain groups may be more recent/relevant
and we need flexibility to choose such a
classification system. eg: butterflies of India.
CoL Catalogue
Mammals
CoL-IBP Hybrid Catalogue
Additions and Substitutions
Coleoptera
Arthropods
Butterflies
Fishes
Birds
Aves
Plants
Amphibians
IBP additions not
matched on CoL
but curated by curators
1O Reference
2O Reference
Automated
Curation interface
Ubio
Manual
No match
No match
Name
Clean
list
3O Reference
CoL
Dirty
List
GBIF
Match
TNRS
Namelist for India which is also the taxonomic backbone of the portal
Match
EoL
User
input
Non-editable
Master Curator
(group specific)
Editable
Working
list
Curators (group specific)
Any User
Demo version of the name curation
interface
Acknowledgments
Portal Team
Support
Contributors