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Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing
Agosti, D.; Bénichou, L.; Addink, W.; Arvanitidis, C.; Catapano, T.; Cochrane, G.; Dillen, M.; Döring, M.; Georgiev, T.; Gérard, I.; Groom, Q.; Kishor, P.; Kroh, A.; Kvacek, J.; Mergen, P.; Mietchen, D.; Pauperio, J.; Sautter, G.; Penev, L. (2022). Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8: e97374. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e97374
In: Research Ideas and Outcomes. Pensoft Publishers: Sofia. e-ISSN 2367-7163, more

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Keywords
    Biodiversity
    Sequences
    Specimens
    Tagging
    Taxa
Author keywords
    semantic publishing, taxonomy publishing, semantic annotation, persistent identifiers, treatments, XML, JATS, TaxPub

Authors  Top 
  • Agosti, D.
  • Bénichou, L.
  • Addink, W.
  • Arvanitidis, C., more
  • Catapano, T.
  • Cochrane, G.
  • Dillen, M., more
  • Döring, M.
  • Georgiev, T.
  • Gérard, I., more
  • Groom, Q., more
  • Kishor, P.
  • Kroh, A., more
  • Kvacek, J.
  • Mergen, P., more
  • Mietchen, D.
  • Pauperio, J.
  • Sautter, G.
  • Penev, L.

Abstract
    The paper summarises many years of discussions and experience of biodiversity publishers, organisations, research projects and individual researchers, and proposes recommendations for implementation of persistent identifiers for article metadata, structural elements (sections, subsections, figures, tables, references, supplementary materials and others) and data specific to biodiversity (taxonomic treatments, treatment citations, taxon names, material citations, gene sequences, specimens, scientific collections) in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing. The paper proposes best practices on how identifiers should be used in the different cases and on how they can be minted, cited, and expressed in the backend article XML to facilitate conversion to and further re-use of the article content as FAIR data. The paper also discusses several specific routes for post-publication re-use of semantically enhanced content through large biodiversity data aggregators such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) and others, and proposes specifications of both identifiers and XML tags to be used for that purpose. A summary table provides an account and overview of the recommendations. The guidelines are supported with examples from the existing publishing practices.

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