Liberate the power of biodiversity literature as FAIR digital objects

作者：Donat Agosti, Laurence Bénichou, Ana Casino, Lars Holm Nielsen, Patrick Ruch, Puneet Kishor, Lyubomir Penev, Patricia Mergen, Christos Arvanitidis · 发表于：Research Ideas and Outcomes · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.3897/rio.10.e126586 · 被引用次数：7 · 研究领域：Species Distribution and Climate Change、Research Data Management Practices、Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Knowledge about biodiversity is largely embedded in a daily growing corpus of over 500 million pages of biodiversity literature that is not machine-actionable. It is thus not open to building a biodiversity knowledge graph, or facilitating the use of artificial intelligence tools. This hinders the completion of a much-needed taxonomic name reference system, prevents the discovery of the biotic interactions underpinning the prediction and understanding of global change trends and consequences, viral spillovers, annotation of genes with their respective phenotypes, and their citations in various domains dealing with biological species such as conservation, agriculture, medicine, life sciences and industry, necessary to achieve the objectives of the Green Deal and address the targets identified in the Global Biodiversity Framework. This Policy Brief highlights key actions that can liberate the scientific data published, exploit their use , promote an enhanced way to publish, and ultimately foster excellence and innovation in biodiversity science, monitoring and conservation.