Wikidata and the bibliography of life

Biological taxonomy rests on a long tail of publications spanning nearly three centuries. Not only is this literature vital to resolving disputes about taxonomy and nomenclature, for many species it represents a key source-indeed sometimes the only source-of information about that species. Unlike ot...

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Published in:PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) CA), 2022-07, Vol.10, p.e13712, Article e13712
Main Author: Page, Roderic D M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic literature
Bibliographic records
Bibliographies as Topic
Bibliography
Bibliometrics
Biodiversity
Bioinformatics
Charities
Citation indexes
Crowd sourcing
Databases, Factual
Humans
Knowledge graph
Metadata
Nomenclature
Online databases
Resource Description Framework-RDF
Software
Special libraries
Taxonomy
Wikidata
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Summary:Biological taxonomy rests on a long tail of publications spanning nearly three centuries. Not only is this literature vital to resolving disputes about taxonomy and nomenclature, for many species it represents a key source-indeed sometimes the only source-of information about that species. Unlike other disciplines such as biomedicine, the taxonomic community lacks a centralised, curated literature database (the "bibliography of life"). This article argues that Wikidata can be that database as it has flexible and sophisticated models of bibliographic information, and an active community of people and programs ("bots") adding, editing, and curating that information.
ISSN:2167-8359
2167-8359
DOI:10.7717/peerj.13712