What knowledge can be obtained from OpenBiodiv?

OpenBiodiv offers a broad biodiversity-related querying system to answer open-ended queries based on the data. OpenBiodiv can be used to obtain new knowledge about taxa, scientific articles and their subsections, the examined materials and their metadata, localities, sequences and a lot more. OpenBiodiv can discover hidden links within biodiversity data and can guide research into how data are used in scholarly articles.

The system is able to return information with a relevant visual representation about any one or a combination of its major data classes within a certain scope and semantic context.

Data classes are:

● Taxon name (Taxon Name Usage, TNU)

● Taxon treatment

● Specimen

● Sequence

● Person (author)

● Collection/Institution

Examples of data properties are:

● Location

● Date (of publication, sample collection, etc.)

● Geo-coordinates

● Habitat