Abstract
BioGeomancer: Automated Georeferencing to Map the World's Biodiversity Data
Highlights
Over the past 250 years, biologists who were interested in describing and understanding patterns of biological diversity have gone into the field to observe and collect species
Through a large number of digitization and computer application development efforts, these challenges have been partially overcome, as is illustrated by the nearly 100 million species-occurrence records that are currently available through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; http:⁄⁄www.gbif.net)
Because so many records remain without geographic coordinates, individual researchers are forced to georeference the localities in the records they use, usually without access to the primary information such as field notes
Summary
Over the past 250 years, biologists who were interested in describing and understanding patterns of biological diversity have gone into the field to observe and collect species. The first challenge is to capture the information associated with specimens, such as species name and the day and locality of collection, in computer databases.
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