@article {10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302,
	title = {An appraisal of megascience platforms for~biodiversity~information},
	journal = {MycoKeys},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2012},
	month = {12},
	pages = {45{\textendash}63},
	publisher = {Pensoft Publishers},
	abstract = {<p> The megascience platforms Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), Catalogue of Life (CoL), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), International Barcode of Life (iBOL), International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) and JSTOR Plant Science, all belong to a group of global players that harvest, process, repurpose and provide biodiversity data on all kinds of organisms. Each of these platforms primarily focus on one data domain, for instance, taxonomy and classification, occurrence, morphology, ecology, and molecular data.The present contribution describes aspects of processing and provision of biological research data on these platforms, focusing on the technical implementation of data exchange, copyright issues, and data sharing policies as well as their implications for data custodians, owners, providers, and publishers. With the exception of JSTOR Plant Science, most international initiatives seek long-term business models and funding mechanisms to provide online data openly and free of charge. For example, currently GBIF depends on governmental commitments for its funding, and CoL is financed by EU or national grants, as well as being based on Species 2000, a British non-for-profit company, and ITIS. These business models are compared with that of JSTOR Plant Science, the commercial portal of the Global Plant Initiative (GPI). All initiatives currently meet challenges of sustainability with regard to data curation as well as software development for maintaining the complexity of their services. All platforms discussed here also harvest and provide mycological and lichenological research data. </p>},
	doi = {10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302},
	author = {Triebel, Dagmar and Hagedorn, Gregor and Rambold, Gerhard}
}
@article {232,
	title = {Comparison of Technical Basis of Biodiversity e-Infrastructures},
	year = {2012},
	month = {2012/10/31/},
	institution = {Cardiff University},
	abstract = {<p>Deliverable D3.1 \&ldquo;Technical Interoperability Specifications\&rdquo;, prepared on the basis of available information at the time of writing, is the output of CReATIVE-B task T3.1, which aims to \&ldquo;Compare the technical basis of e-infrastructures (for biodiversity research)\&rdquo;. It provides a synopsis comparison of the technical approaches of the e-infrastructures analysed within the scope of the project and elaborates the interoperability analysis by defining it and making a quantitative comparison of the technical facts gathered thus far. It reflects as accurately as possible the technical findings, structured along dimensions of interoperability that match the functional areas and layers of the research infrastructures being analysed. Deliverable D3.1 aims at shedding light on existing similarities and differences between participating research infrastructures thus forming a solid information and knowledge basis for future interoperability guidelines developments in D3.2 and D3.3.</p>
},
	isbn = {D3.1},
	url = {http://creative-b.eu/documents/10826/9f2f2ed9-f6b6-443a-a06d-fd3c46875a84},
	author = {Hardisty, Alex and Manset, David}
}
