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Digitisation of biological collections
I. Merino-Sáinz, A. Anadón & A. Torralba-Burrial
Introduction
» Existing knowledge of Iberian harvestmen still fragmented
» There is a significant gap in accessible knowledge
» Opiliones deposited at BOS Arthropod Collection (University of Oviedo):
˃ 16,455 specimens
˃ 3,772 vials (records)
» Including
˃ Colección de Arácnidos P. Franganillo (early 20th Century)
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Opiliones records in GBIF network
Other Iberian harvestmen in GBIF: Museum of
Comparative Zoology Harvard University; Museum of
Zoology University of Navarra MZNA; Senckenberg
Collection Arachnology SMF
Other exclusively harvestmen dataset in GBIF:
Opiliones dataset of the UK National Biodiversity
Network; Harvestmen (Opiliones) of Ireland dataset of
the National Biodiversity Data Centre
» BOS-Opi contributes significantly to the publicly accessible harvestmen data records through the GBIF network.
BOS Arthropod Collection digitisation workflow
This is our workflow:
Specimens preparation
Data digitisation
Retrospective georeferencing
Exporting datasets
Data quality control
Generalise sensitive data*
Generate metadata
Dataset release
*not applicable in BOS-Opi
Torralba-Burrial & Ocharan 2013 ZooKeys 306: 37–58
Geographic distribution BOS-Opi dataset
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BOS-Opi taxonomic distribution
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BOS-Opi taxonomic distribution
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BOS-Opi taxonomic distribution
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BOS-Opi taxonomic distribution
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BOS-Opi taxonomic distribution
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BOS-Opi records cumulative monthly distribution
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Franganillo’s Collection
Pelegrin Franganillo published many new species of arachnids early 20th Century. Most of them: Nomina dubia
Synonyms
Collection study shows: 17 specimens, 10 vials, 5
missing
Misidentifications
Current ids more accurate
Other ids ok
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Citation
Datapaper: Merino-Sáinz I, Anadón A, Torralba-Burrial A (2013) Harvestmen of the BOS Arthropod Collection of the University of Oviedo (Spain) (Arachnida, Opiliones). ZooKeys 341: 21–36. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.341.6130 Resource citation: Universidad de Oviedo (2013-). BOS Arthropod Collection Dataset: Opiliones (BOS-Opi). 3772 data records. Contributed by: Merino Sáinz I, Anadón A, Torralba-Burrial A, Fernández-Álvarez FA, Melero Cimas VX, Monteserín Real S, Ocharan Ibarra R, Rosa García R, Vázquez Felechosa MT, Ocharan FJ. Online at http://www.gbif.es:8080/ipt/archive.do?r=Bos-Opi and http://www.unioviedo.es/BOS/Zoologia/artropodos/opiliones, version 1.0 (last updated on 2013-06-30), GBIF key: http://gbrds.gbif.org/browse/agent?uuid=cc0e6535-6bb4-4703-a32c-077f5e1176cd, Data paper ID: doi:10.3897/zookeys.341.6130
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