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A specialist’s audit of aggregated occurrence records
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-19, 04:54 authored by Mesibov, ROccurrence records for named, native Australian millipedes from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) were compared with the same records from the Millipedes of Australia (MoA) website, compiled independently by the author. The comparison revealed some previously unnoticed errors in MoA, and a much larger number of errors and other problems in the aggregated datasets. Errors have been corrected in MoA and in some data providers’ databases, but will remain in GBIF and ALA until data providers have supplied updates to these aggregators. An audit by a specialist volunteer, as reported here, is not a common occurrence. It is suggested that aggregators should do more, or more effective, data checking and should query data providers when possible errors are detected, rather than simply disclaim responsibility for aggregated content.
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Publication title
ZooKeysVolume
293Pagination
1-18ISSN
1313-2989Publisher
Pensoft PublishersPlace of publication
Prof Georgi Zlatarski St 12, Sofia, 1700 BulgariaRights statement
Copyright 2013 Robert Mesibov. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Repository Status
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