Work

TNLS: Taxonomic activity notification service

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Work package 2 of the TETTRIs project and the TETTRIs satellite project TNLS focussed on mechanisms to name match a list of scientific names against an aggregator’s taxonomic dataset. Apart from checking the data quality and other properties of the scientific name, users get the possibility to link their name to a name-identifier (ID) the database provides. This would enable a researcher to follow scientific names and get information of taxonomic or nomenclatural changes affecting them. The idea is to enable users to be informed (via push or pull mechanisms) about changes that affect their name. Changes (as described below) would refer to defined “versions” of the dataset, e.g. daily or weekly snapshots. Here, we are looking into some aspects of such a system, classifying potential audiences, exploring possible changes affecting names in a taxonomic dataset, and identifying technologies that may be used to implement such a service. We are focussing on changes in the core taxonomic and nomenclatural data (classification, acceptance, nomenclature) but this could extend to the addition of new occurrence records or specimens.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17588931

Authors: Hyam, Roger, Vanhoorne, Bart, Berendsohn, Walter Günther, Müller, Andreas, Lamote, Milan, De Paepe, Bart

Institutions: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Flanders Marine Institute, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin

Language: English

Topic: Research Data Management Practices

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission

Award: Transforming European Taxonomy through Training, Research, and Innovations