Towards a new online species-information system for legumes

Anne Bruneau; Leonardo M. Borges; Robert Allkin; Ashley N. Egan; Manuel de la Estrella; Firouzeh Javadi; Bente Klitgaard; Joseph T. Miller; Daniel J. Murphy; Carole Sinou; Mohammad Vatanparast; Rong Zhang

doi:10.1071/sb19025

Towards a new online species-information system for legumes

Anne Bruneau, Leonardo M. Borges, Robert Allkin, Ashley N. Egan, Manuel de la Estrella, Firouzeh Javadi, Bente Klitgaard, Joseph T. Miller, Daniel J. Murphy, Carole Sinou, Mohammad Vatanparast, Rong Zhang

Forest, Nature and Biomass

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Abstract

The need for scientists to exchange, share and organise data has resulted in a proliferation of biodiversity research-data portals over recent decades. These cyber-infrastructures have had a major impact on taxonomy and helped the discipline by allowing faster access to bibliographic information, biological and nomenclatural data, and specimen information. Several specialised portals aggregate particular data types for a large number of species, including legumes. Here, we argue that, despite access to such data-aggregation portals, a taxon-focused portal, curated by a community of researchers specialising on a particular taxonomic group and who have the interest, commitment, existing collaborative links, and knowledge necessary to ensure data quality, would be a useful resource in itself and make important contributions to more general data providers. Such an online species-information system focused on Leguminosae (Fabaceae) would serve useful functions in parallel to and different from international data-aggregation portals. We explore best practices for developing a legume-focused portal that would support data sharing, provide a better understanding of what data are available, missing, or erroneous, and, ultimately, facilitate cross-analyses and direct development of novel research. We present a history of legume-focused portals, survey existing data portals to evaluate what is available and which features are of most interest, and discuss how a legume-focused portal might be developed to respond to the needs of the legume-systematics research community and beyond. We propose taking full advantage of existing data sources, informatics tools and protocols to develop a scalable and interactive portal that will be used, contributed to, and fully supported by the legume-systematics community in the easiest manner possible.

Original language	English
Journal	Australian Systematic Botany
Volume	32
Issue number	5-6
Pages (from-to)	495-518
Number of pages	24
ISSN	1030-1887
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1071/sb19025
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

data exchange
data standards
genetic data
nomenclature
occurrence data
phylogenetic data
specialist data curation
taxonomic backbone
trait data

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