Biodiversity information
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In the original sense of the phrase used in the report of the OECD Megascience Forum Working Group on Biological Informatics, Biodiversity Informatics is suggested as a name for a new field concerned with the study of biodiversity information, which, in its most basic form, is information about the occurrence of specimens of organisms that were once alive, usually either observed (possibly photographed or illustrated) or preserved in specimen collections in natural history museums.
Whereas Johnson (2007) defines Biodiversity Informatics by referring to the information with which it is concerned as "primary data regarding life", he elaborates that these data are specimen-occurrence data, which he defines: "The basic elements that comprise specimen-occurrence data are the place of collection (where), collecting date (when), collectors (who), method of collection (how), and taxonomic name of the specimen (what).
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James L. Edwards, Meredith A. Lane, and Ebbe S. Nielsen. 2000. Interoperability of Biodiversity Databases: Biodiversity Information on Every Desktop. Science 289 (5488), 2312. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;289/5488/2312
