From text to structured data: Converting a word-processed floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archive format

By

Remsen, David
Knapp, Sandra
Georgiev, Teodor
Stoev, Pavel
Penev, Lyubomir

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

9

Pages

1-13

Subjects

Darwin Core Archive , Data mining , taxonomic checklists

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.9.2770

 

Abstract

The paper describes a pilot project to convert a conventional floristic checklist, written in a standard word processing program, into structured data in the Darwin Core Archive format. After peer-review and editorial acceptance, the final revised version of the Checklist was converted into Darwin Core Archive by means of regular expressions and published thereafter in both human-readable form as traditional botanical publication and Darwin Core Archive data files. The data were published and indexed through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and significant portions of the text of the paper were used to describe the metadata on IPT. After publication, the data will become available through the GBIF infrastructure and can be re-used on their own or collated with other data.