Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
PeerJ. 2022 Jul 7;10:e13712. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13712. eCollection 2022.
Biological taxonomy rests on a long tail of publications spanning nearly three centuries. Not only is this literature vital to resolving disputes about taxonomy and nomenclature, for many species it represents a key source-indeed sometimes the only source-of information about that species. Unlike other disciplines such as biomedicine, the taxonomic community lacks a centralised, curated literature database (the "bibliography of life"). This article argues that Wikidata can be that database as it has flexible and sophisticated models of bibliographic information, and an active community of people and programs ("bots") adding, editing, and curating that information.
生物分类学建立在近三个世纪的大量文献基础上。这些文献不仅对于解决分类学和命名法方面的争议至关重要，对于许多物种来说，它们还是了解该物种的主要信息来源——有时甚至是唯一来源。与生物医学等其他学科不同，分类学界缺乏一个集中管理的文献数据库（即“生命文献目录”）。本文认为，Wikidata 可以成为这样的数据库，因为它具有灵活而复杂的文献信息模型，以及一个由人和程序（“机器人”）组成的活跃社区，他们正在添加、编辑和管理这些信息。
