Taxonomic Treatments as Open FAIR Digital Objects

Taxonomy is the science of charting and describing worlds biodiversity. Organisms are grouped into taxa which given a rank building taxonomic hierarchy. The described in treatments, well defined sections scientific publications (Catapano 2019). They include nomenclatural section one or more including descriptions, material citations referring to studied specimens, notes ecology behavior. In case treatment does not describe new discovered taxon, previous treatments cited form citations. This citation can refer add additional data, it be statement synonymizing taxon with another taxon. allows network, ultimately constituent part catalogue life. Thus play an important role understand diversity life on Earth by providing argument why group organism species, synonym, data provided will increasingly analyze compare whole genomes individual genomes. Treatments have been extracted Plazi since 2008 (Agosti Egloff 2009), TaxPub schema has Catapano 2019) complement existing vocabularies allow annotation legacy literature produce respective annotations (Penev et al. 2010). Today, than 750,000 annotated Plazi’s TreatmenBank over 400,000 made FAIR digital objects Biodiversity Literature Repository collaboration Plazi, Zenodo Pensoft (Ioannidis-Pantopikos Agosti 2021, 2019), reused Global Information Facility (GBIF), Biotic Interaction (GloBI), Library System Swiss Institute Bioinformatics (SIBiLS). Each repository findable through its rich metadata. insertion custom metadata provides domain specific such as Darwin Core 2021). accessible DataCite Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for subtype publication. interoperable machine actionable JSON version treatment. A license assure reusable. richness within provide stepping stone only knowledge systems Wikidata openBioDiv, but links many objects, specimens citations, thus curated assemblage links. Being object, should linked from name used identification organism.