From text to structured data: Converting a word-processed floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archive format

The paper describes a pilot project to convert a conventional floristic checklist, written in a standard word processing program, into structured data in the Darwin Core Archive format. After peer-review and editorial acceptance, the final revised version of the checklist was converted into Darwin Core Archive by means of regular expressions and published thereafter in both human-readable form as traditional botanical publication and Darwin Core Archive data files. The data were published and indexed through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and significant portions of the text of the paper were used to describe the metadata on IPT. After publication, the data will become available through the GBIF infrastructure and can be re-used on their own or collated with other data.

Citation

Remsen D, Knapp S, Georgiev T, Stoev P, Penev L (2012) From text to structured data: Converting a word-processed floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archive format. PhytoKeys 9: 1-13.

Type

Journal Article

Item Description

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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ISSN

1314-2011

EISSN

1314-2003