期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2011
卷号：37
期号：6
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：For millennia, information about biological diversity has been collected as a way to
understand the living world. The information record has evolved from early papyrus to
modern electronic collections, but challenges to information access persist, despite and
partly due to a variety of digital techniques and applications. Information exchange is
hampered by lack of access to previous work, inconsistent naming, changes over time and
insufficient resources to create comprehensive databases supporting federated search
with Darwin Core metadata.With progress in biodiversity informatics, we will see greater
use of DNA barcoding and metagenomic techniques to describe species, remote sensing
tools and geographic information systems to detect and describe species¡¯ locations and
movements and to identify habitats and environmental conditions. Biodiversity informatics
provides essential scientific knowledge to better understand global ecosystems and to
inform land use and policy decisions.
关键词：biology
informatics
scientific and technical information
