Martellos Stefano, Conti Matteo, Nimis Pier Luigi
Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Via Giorgieri 10, I-34127 Trieste, Italy.
J Fungi (Basel). 2023 May 11;9(5):556. doi: 10.3390/jof9050556.
The creation of a coordinated publishing and aggregation system of biodiversity data is a challenging task, which calls for the adoption of open data standards. ITALIC, the information system on Italian lichens, originated from the conversion of the first Italian checklist into a database. While the first version was "frozen", the present version is continuously updated and provides access to several other data sources and services, such as ecological indicator values, ecological notes and information, traits, images, digital identification keys, etc. The identification keys especially are an ongoing work that will lead to a complete national flora by 2026. Last year, new services were added, one for aligning lists of names with the national checklist, the other for aggregating occurrence data deriving from the digitization of 13 Italian herbaria, forming a total of ca. 88,000 records, which are distributed under a CC BY license and can be exported as CSV files in the Darwin Core format. An aggregator for lichen data will encourage the national community of lichenologists to produce and aggregate further data sets, and it will stimulate data reuse according to the paradigms of open science.
创建一个生物多样性数据的协调出版和聚合系统是一项具有挑战性的任务，这需要采用开放数据标准。ITALIC是关于意大利地衣的信息系统，它起源于将第一份意大利地衣名录转换为数据库。虽然第一个版本已“冻结”，但当前版本在不断更新，并提供对其他几个数据源和服务的访问，如生态指标值、生态注释和信息、特征、图像、数字识别键等。特别是识别键是一项正在进行的工作，到2026年将形成完整的国家植物志。去年，增加了新的服务，一个用于将名称列表与国家名录对齐，另一个用于聚合来自13个意大利植物标本馆数字化的出现数据，总共约有88,000条记录，这些记录根据知识共享署名许可协议发布，并可以达尔文核心格式导出为CSV文件。地衣数据聚合器将鼓励全国地衣学家群体生成和聚合更多数据集，并将根据开放科学的范式促进数据重用。
