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MEGASCIENCE PLATFORMS BENCHMARK
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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.

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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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INSDCCoLGBIFJSTORBHLiBOLEOLALAWikispeciesAFNGNALifewatch?Reasons for change
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Websitewww.insdc.orgwww.catalogueoflife.orgwww.gbif.orgwww.plants.jstor.orgwww.biodiversitylibrary.orgwww.ibol.orgwww.eol.orghttp://bie.ala.org.au/ http://species.wikimedia.orghttp://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/homehttp://www.globalnames.org/You forgot to add these important platforms in your previous report. They are aggregators/databases similar to GIBIF, EoL, CoL. etc.
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Creation1992200120012003200520072007
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EU projectSpecies2000
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CONTENT - DATA
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Content and scopeSpecialized:General:GeneralSpecialized:General:Specialized:General:
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Nucleic acid sequencesTaxonomic checklistsOccurrences and recordsType specimens, multimedia objects for plantsBiodiversity literature, multimedia objectsDNA barcoding sequencesKnowledge data, species fact sheets, multimedia objects
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Data source3 platforms (EMBL Bank; GenBank;DDBJ)115 taxonomic databases420 data publishers200 content partners and publishers12 libraries; 60,000 titles and 100,000 volumesBOL data system; 156,461 taxa species and 1,702,485 specimens>220 partners and >62,000 members; >3.3 million pages
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Links with other platformsLIAS ; Species2000 ; WoRMS ; Species Fungorum ; FishBase ; LifeWatch ; ELIXIR ; GBIF ; CBOL ; IUCN ; EoLEDIT ; BioCASE ; CoL ; EoLBHL ; GBIFCatalogue of Life ; GBIF ; WoRMS ; iBOL ; BHL ; INSDC ; IUCN
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Data quality management responsibilityAuthor and/or institutionPeer reviewPublishersJSTOR + feedback mechanisms with providersBHL consortiumDirect input and curation efforts of scientific community and researchersControlled by 300 active EOL curators on a voluntary basis
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USER AND SERVICES
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Target userBiodiversity science communityResearch scientistsBiosiversity science communityScientific institutionsScientific institutionsScientistsFor everyone:
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Policy and decision-makersBiosiversity science communitystudents, teachers, scientists, lifelong learner
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Citizen scientists
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FormatsOnlineOnlineOnlineOnlineOnlineOnlineOnline
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CD-ROM
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CoL Annual Checklist published
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Search displayResults in the different databasesList of namesList of namesResults displayed by map and by list of namesResults displayed by Books/Journals ; Authors ; Subjects ; Scientific namesResults displayed by Sub-taxa (species) ; BOLD stats (records) ; Contributors (Specimens and Sequencing) ; Imagery ; Collection site ; Taxon Occurrence (Map)Results displayed in different sections by
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Journals/articles ; PubMed ; Literature citations & abstracts ; Books ; Nucleotide/protein/genome/structure ; TaxonomyOrganised by rank, name status, group and databaseDifferent sections:Filter by Title ; taxonomy ; in listsDetails ; Media ; Maps ; Names ; Communities ; Resources ; Literature ; Updates
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Scientific names ; Common names ; Countries ; DatasetsSort by Relevance ; Title ; Author ; Year
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Filter by Species / Subspecies / Genus / Variety
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FunctionnalitiesAmount and quality of openly and freely info (oldest platform)Carefully controlled datasetTaxonomic component of the database can be extractedTaxonomic component of the database can be extractedRange of services and application programming interfaces (APIs) allowing to harvest source data files adn reuse content for research purposesMassive survey of sequence variation in standardised gene regions across large blocks of lifeLarge diversse system intended for a range of audiences.
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ServicesProbably the most useful for accessing Life Science Indicators (LSIDs) for higher animal dataNavigation through the indexes to the huge datasets in centralized locationsBioinformatics and biodiversity informatics tools for visualisationCaching functionnality (instant archiving and backup)
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Creative Commons
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TECHNICAL
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TechnicalDiGIR and TAPIRIntegrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)JSTOR Plant Science SRUTaxonFinder (developed by uBio.org)Names-based cyberinfrastructure
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MANAGEMENT AND FUNDING
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Consortial structureEMBL 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 committeeNGO organisation funded and spearheaded by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationConsortium of 12 partners + global expansion with BHL nodes in China, Australia and BrazilCentral 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
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Funding sourceGrants and financial supports from Species2000Voting participants (international organisations)- Andrew W. Mellon foundationGrants from several foundations- Ontario government16 institutions and 6 foundations
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- Subscription fees- Canadian foundations
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- Genome Canada Association
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Creation of content dataNational funding programmesVolunteers and individual enthusiastsNational funding programmesBacked by financial support - paid for digitalisation effortBHL-US: Backed by financial supportBacked by financial supportVolunteers and individual enthusiasts