Publications by vijaybarve
GSoC 2017 : Parser for Biodiversity Checklists
Guest post by Qingyue Xu Compiling taxonomic checklists from varied sources of data is a common task that biodiversity informaticians encounter. In the GSoC 2017 project Parser for Biodiversity checklists, my overall goal is to extract taxonomic names from given text into a tabular format so that easy aggregation of biodiversity data in a structu...
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Google Summer of Code 2018
R project has been participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) since 2008. We have numerous packages which have received code contributions from GSoC participants. This year too, R is participating and there is already an impressive list of potential projects listed at [https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2018/wiki/table-of-proposed-coding-proje...
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Darwinazing biodiversity data in R
“Darwin Core (DwC) is a standard maintained by the Darwin Core maintenance group. It includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity by providing identifiers, labels, and definitions....
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India has 100k records on iNaturalist
Biodiversity citizen scientists use iNaturalist to post their observations with photographs. The observations are then curated there by crowd-sourcing the identifications and other trait related aspects too. The data once converted to “research grade” is passed on to GBIF as occurrence records. Exciting news from India in 3rd week of April 20...
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