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1 | MEGASCIENCE PLATFORMS BENCHMARK | |||||||||||||
2 | Along with D6.3.2, we should draft a "market background document analyzing the market for current services being offered", in the first report, we identified the following platforms and detailed their services, features, financing scheme. The idea is to keep on adding information to this table, in particular some missing information and to add newly created platforms or any platforms we may have omitted to add. | |||||||||||||
3 | Please consider adding semi-professional organisations, like wildlife trusts, naturalist societies etc. We need to broaden our outlook and not limit our future services to be provided to megascience platforms only. | |||||||||||||
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5 | INSDC | CoL | GBIF | JSTOR | BHL | iBOL | EOL | ALA | Wikispecies | AFN | GNA | Lifewatch? | Reasons for change | |
6 | Website | www.insdc.org | www.catalogueoflife.org | www.gbif.org | www.plants.jstor.org | www.biodiversitylibrary.org | www.ibol.org | www.eol.org | http://bie.ala.org.au/ | http://species.wikimedia.org | http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/home | http://www.globalnames.org/ | You forgot to add these important platforms in your previous report. They are aggregators/databases similar to GIBIF, EoL, CoL. etc. | |
7 | Creation | 1992 | 2001 | 2001 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2007 | ||||||
8 | EU project | Species2000 | ||||||||||||
9 | CONTENT - DATA | |||||||||||||
10 | Content and scope | Specialized: | General: | General | Specialized: | General: | Specialized: | General: | ||||||
11 | Nucleic acid sequences | Taxonomic checklists | Occurrences and records | Type specimens, multimedia objects for plants | Biodiversity literature, multimedia objects | DNA barcoding sequences | Knowledge data, species fact sheets, multimedia objects | |||||||
12 | Data source | 3 platforms (EMBL Bank; GenBank;DDBJ) | 115 taxonomic databases | 420 data publishers | 200 content partners and publishers | 12 libraries; 60,000 titles and 100,000 volumes | BOL data system; 156,461 taxa species and 1,702,485 specimens | >220 partners and >62,000 members; >3.3 million pages | ||||||
13 | Links with other platforms | LIAS ; Species2000 ; WoRMS ; Species Fungorum ; FishBase ; LifeWatch ; ELIXIR ; GBIF ; CBOL ; IUCN ; EoL | EDIT ; BioCASE ; CoL ; EoL | BHL ; GBIF | Catalogue of Life ; GBIF ; WoRMS ; iBOL ; BHL ; INSDC ; IUCN | |||||||||
14 | Data quality management responsibility | Author and/or institution | Peer review | Publishers | JSTOR + feedback mechanisms with providers | BHL consortium | Direct input and curation efforts of scientific community and researchers | Controlled by 300 active EOL curators on a voluntary basis | ||||||
15 | USER AND SERVICES | |||||||||||||
16 | Target user | Biodiversity science community | Research scientists | Biosiversity science community | Scientific institutions | Scientific institutions | Scientists | For everyone: | ||||||
17 | Policy and decision-makers | Biosiversity science community | students, teachers, scientists, lifelong learner | |||||||||||
18 | Citizen scientists | |||||||||||||
19 | Formats | Online | Online | Online | Online | Online | Online | Online | ||||||
20 | CD-ROM | |||||||||||||
21 | CoL Annual Checklist published | |||||||||||||
22 | Search display | Results in the different databases | List of names | List of names | Results displayed by map and by list of names | Results displayed by Books/Journals ; Authors ; Subjects ; Scientific names | Results displayed by Sub-taxa (species) ; BOLD stats (records) ; Contributors (Specimens and Sequencing) ; Imagery ; Collection site ; Taxon Occurrence (Map) | Results displayed in different sections by | ||||||
23 | Journals/articles ; PubMed ; Literature citations & abstracts ; Books ; Nucleotide/protein/genome/structure ; Taxonomy | Organised by rank, name status, group and database | Different sections: | Filter by Title ; taxonomy ; | in lists | Details ; Media ; Maps ; Names ; Communities ; Resources ; Literature ; Updates | ||||||||
24 | Scientific names ; Common names ; Countries ; Datasets | Sort by Relevance ; Title ; Author ; Year | ||||||||||||
25 | Filter by Species / Subspecies / Genus / Variety | |||||||||||||
26 | Functionnalities | Amount and quality of openly and freely info (oldest platform) | Carefully controlled dataset | Taxonomic component of the database can be extracted | Taxonomic component of the database can be extracted | Range of services and application programming interfaces (APIs) allowing to harvest source data files adn reuse content for research purposes | Massive survey of sequence variation in standardised gene regions across large blocks of life | Large diversse system intended for a range of audiences. | ||||||
27 | Services | Probably the most useful for accessing Life Science Indicators (LSIDs) for higher animal data | Navigation through the indexes to the huge datasets in centralized locations | Bioinformatics and biodiversity informatics tools for visualisation | Caching functionnality (instant archiving and backup) | |||||||||
28 | Creative Commons | |||||||||||||
29 | TECHNICAL | |||||||||||||
30 | Technical | DiGIR and TAPIR | Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) | JSTOR Plant Science SRU | TaxonFinder (developed by uBio.org) | Names-based cyberinfrastructure | ||||||||
31 | MANAGEMENT AND FUNDING | |||||||||||||
32 | Consortial structure | EMBL ENA, NCBI-GenBank and DDBJ (USA) | Species2000 (UK) and ITIS (US, Canada and Mexico) | Intergovernmental organisation with about 60 nations and 50 international organisations. GBIF secretariat & advisory committee | NGO organisation funded and spearheaded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Consortium of 12 partners + global expansion with BHL nodes in China, Australia and Brazil | Central node in Canada, major nodes in China, Europe and US Several regional/ national nodes and partner organisations | GBIF, BHL, foundations in the USA and cornerstore institutions in the USA, Australia, China, Egypt and Mexico | ||||||
33 | Funding source | Grants and financial supports from Species2000 | Voting participants (international organisations) | - Andrew W. Mellon foundation | Grants from several foundations | - Ontario government | 16 institutions and 6 foundations | |||||||
34 | - Subscription fees | - Canadian foundations | ||||||||||||
35 | - Genome Canada Association | |||||||||||||
36 | Creation of content data | National funding programmes | Volunteers and individual enthusiasts | National funding programmes | Backed by financial support - paid for digitalisation effort | BHL-US: Backed by financial support | Backed by financial support | Volunteers and individual enthusiasts |