Department of Natural History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre, Trondheim, Norway.
PLoS One. 2022 Dec 1;17(12):e0277752. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277752. eCollection 2022.
The skills and knowledge needed to recognize and classify taxa are becoming increasingly scarce in the scientific community. At the same time, it is clear that these skills are strongly needed in biodiversity monitoring for management and conservation, especially when carried out by citizen scientists. Formalizing the required knowledge in the form of digital identification keys is one way of making such knowledge more available for professional and amateur observers of biodiversity. In this paper we describe Clavis, an open and versatile data format for capturing the knowledge required for taxon identification through digital keys, allowing for a level of detail beyond that of any current key format. We present the format independently from any particular implementation, as our aim is for Clavis to serve as a basis for interoperable tools and interfaces serving different needs and actors.
在科学界，识别和分类分类群所需的技能和知识正变得越来越稀缺。与此同时，很明显，在生物多样性监测管理和保护方面，这些技能是非常需要的，尤其是由公民科学家进行时。将所需的知识以数字识别钥匙的形式形式化是使这种知识更易于专业和业余生物多样性观察者使用的一种方法。在本文中，我们描述了 Clavis，这是一种开放且通用的数据格式，用于通过数字钥匙捕获分类单元识别所需的知识，其详细程度超过了任何当前的钥匙格式。我们将该格式独立于任何特定的实现呈现，因为我们的目标是让 Clavis 成为服务于不同需求和参与者的可互操作工具和接口的基础。
