Quality Control/Quality Assurance within the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

By

Orrell, Thomas

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-9-5

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

7

Pages

1--2

Subjects

Catalogue of Life , Global Species Database , informatics , Integrated Taxonomic Information System

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112043

 

Abstract

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System*1 (ITIS) and Species 2000*2 have worked together for two decades after signing an agreement to form the Catalogue of Life*3 (COL), striving to provide current and complete Global Species Databases (GSDs) from various sources. ITIS has provided many such GSDs to the COL.<br> In this presentation, we will demonstrate in detail the nine aspects of ITIS’ approach to quality assurance/quality control: People, Process, Rules, Standards, Automation, Control, Assurance, Publication, and Feedback. All of these aspects are important and deserve consideration in the creation/maintenance of ITIS’ high quality GSDs.<br> ITIS has also developed a new web-based ‘Taxonomic Workbench’ (TWB) that allows new levels of cooperative effort beyond what ITIS has been able to attain with a desktop version of the software, which has been used for twenty-five years. Some key aspects of these tools and what they will allow are discussed in the last half of the presentation.