Mesibov Robert Evan
No affiliation for this profile, West Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia No affiliation for this profile West Ulverstone, Tasmania Australia.
Biodivers Data J. 2021 Jul 28;9:e70463. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e70463. eCollection 2021.
Biodiversity databases contain omissions and errors, including those resulting from data entry mistakes and from the use of outdated or incorrect data sources. Some of these omissions and errors can be minimised by the use of authority files, such as expert-compiled taxonomic name databases. However, there are few publicly available authority files for collecting events, and the "where", "when" and "by whom" of specimen data are typically entered into biodiversity databases separately and directly, item by item from specimen labels.
Here I describe a publicly available compilation of 3829 of my own collecting events over a 48-year period in Australia. Each record contains a unique combination of date, georeferenced location and location notes.
生物多样性数据库存在遗漏和错误，包括数据录入错误以及使用过时或不正确数据源导致的问题。其中一些遗漏和错误可通过使用权威文件（如专家编纂的分类学名称数据库）来尽量减少。然而，用于收集事件的公开可用权威文件很少，标本数据的“何地”“何时”及“何人”通常是从标本标签逐一项分别直接录入生物多样性数据库的。
在此，我描述了一份关于我在澳大利亚48年期间3829次采集事件的公开汇编。每条记录都包含日期、地理参考位置和位置注释的独特组合。
