. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. MCZ NEWS: PROJECTS & INITIATIVES Quality Control for Species-Occurrence Data MCZ Director James Hanken is the principal investigator for "Filtered Push: Continuous Quality Conuol for Disuibuted Collections & Other Species-Occurrence ; The National Science Foundation awarded the three-vear, million giant in fall 2010. Paul Morris, Biodiversity Informatics Manager, will be leading efforts on the behalf of the MCZ. Species-occurrence data associated with biological collections—which species was observe
. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. MCZ NEWS: PROJECTS & INITIATIVES Quality Control for Species-Occurrence Data MCZ Director James Hanken is the principal investigator for "Filtered Push: Continuous Quality Conuol for Disuibuted Collections & Other Species-Occurrence ; The National Science Foundation awarded the three-vear, million giant in fall 2010. Paul Morris, Biodiversity Informatics Manager, will be leading efforts on the behalf of the MCZ. Species-occurrence data associated with biological collections—which species was observed at a geographic location at a given time—have historically been used mainly by taxonomists. With the advent of digital aggregation technologies these data have become readily available for many other uses, such as modeling species distributions and assessing the effects of climate change on biological diversity. Through aggregation, large quantities of species-occurrence data can be gathered simultaneously from many disuibuted sources. This process, however, has highlighted the frequency of problems regarding the accuracv, completeness, consistency of representation and timeliness of those data. Accordingly, researchers often are uncertain about whether these data are suitable for use in their work. Data quality and fiuiess for use will be addressed through Filtered Push Continuous Quality Conuol software, which allows data providers and consumers to define potential errors in data, develop metrics for those errors, analyze disuibuted data to detect potential errors, and close the quality management cvcle bv sending corrections back to the curators of the original data sets. The project will specifically benefit aggregators that serve species-occurrence data to the public and other research domains, such as the Encyclopedia of Life and the Global Biodiversity7 Information Linking Field Notes to Specimens and Published Literature The California Academy of Scienc
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