Evolution of GBIF's Taxonomic Backbone

GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is an international research data infrastructure that mediates from various sources such as museum collections, citizen science observations and machine generated camera trap environmental DNA. Data shared with comes a taxonomic identification—normally Linnaean binomial. Large flows are now coming to without formal names but identified by informal species hypotheses, usually based on DNA sequence similarity curated reference library. GBIF’s task integrate all this in repository accessible via single framework integrates the individual practices. This made more challenging idiosyncratic appear GBIF-mediated datasets, which not found existing taxonomies. taxonomy known backbone. transitioning its build backbone new ChecklistBank so can take advantage of tools Catalogue Life-GBIF partnership has built. will be responsive community input able knowledge at much faster rate.