Building the Infrastructure for Reproducible Biodiversity Science
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BIEN 4.2: A Reproducible Standard for Global Plant Biodiversity Data
Post provided by the BIEN Working Group
For hundreds of years, biologists have carefully collected information on plants, animals, and other organisms and have created and maintained enormous libraries of physical specimens from all around the globe. Specimens are collected with all kinds of information– often there’s a physical example, but beyond that, scientists record where and when the sample was collected, by whom, and...