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Biodiversity Data Publishers in GBIF
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituti del Dipartimento di Scienze Bio-AgroAlimentari (CNR-DiSBA)
The Research Institutes of the National Research Council of Italy, coordinated by the Department of Bio-Agrifood Sciences (CNR-DiSBA), hold many important in vivo and ex-situ research collections of hundreds of different organisms (bacteria, fungi, nematodes, plant viruses, crop species, crop wild relatives, forest and fruit trees, etc.), aimed at studying and preserving their functional biodiversity, and assessing their response to biotic and abiotic environmental factors. These collections are part of the national network of biological research collections “BioMemory”, and have been fully digitized, standardized, and published within the Next Generation EU Project IR0000032 “ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System” (PNRR - Mission 4), and integrated into the European Research Infrastructure "DiSSCo" (Distributed System of Scientific Collections).
Keywords: Plants, Fungi, Bacteria, Viruses, Invertebrates, Araceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae, Brassicaceae, Oleaceae, Fagaceae, Cupressaceae, Pinaceae, Nectriaceae, Aspergillaceae, Pleosporaceae, Pestalotiopsidaceae, Bovidae
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sistema Museale di Ateneo
The Florence University Museum System (SMA) holds, exhibits and promotes the scientific, historical-scientific and historical-artistic collections of the Athenaeum. It includes the Natural History Museum (NHM) and two historical buildings, the Medicean Villa La Quiete complex and Galileo Galilei's Villa in Arcetri. Before the SMA establishment in 2018, the NHM (the most important naturalistic museum in Italy and one of the largest in Europe) had been among the founders of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), being involved in many of its initiatives (e.g., the LifeWatch RI and the DiSSCo Prepare projects). It took part in the "Global Plant Initiative", one of the first projects providing open access to biological data.
Keywords: Gasteropoda, Decapoda, Ophiuroidea, Insecta, Heteroptera, Lepidoptera, Homoptera, Hortoptera, Bryophyta, Charadriiformes, Fungi, Algae, Chromista, Aves, Falconiformes, Accipitridae, Gruiformes, Galliformes
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine
The Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISMAR), conducts basic and applied research in biological, physical, and chemical oceanography and marine geology to contribute both to the study of ocean processes and climate variability and to the development of systems/services for the observation, protection, and sustainable management of the marine and coastal environment. CNR-ISMAR hosts the Herbarium ISMAR and collections of marine invertebrates from various Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean regions. CNR-ISMAR joins the European Research Infrastructure "DiSSCo".
Keywords: Crustacean, Foraminifera, Epimegabenthos, Chlorophyta, Zooplankton, Chromista
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque
Research deals with aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, taking into account their physical, chemical, and biological aspects. Studies focus on anthropogenic effects, such as water pollution, hydromorphological alterations, deposition of atmospheric pollutants, global changes, and alien species and their impact on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Research in marine algae, mainly from the Ionian Sea, is also carried out. Research focuses on biodiversity in aquatic habitats, particularly on data collection, storage, and information management.
Keywords: Rotifera, Tardigrades, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Aracnida, Freshwater Macroinvetebrates, Chironomids, Oligochaetes, Benthic Copepods, Proseriate Flatworms
Department of Biology, University of Trieste
The lichen collection "Abramo Massalongo" includes 594 exsiccata of 490 taxa, mainly collected in North-Eastern Italy between 1845 and 1855. The specimens were collected for the most part by Massalongo himself, and to a minor extent to other authors. Some specimens from Cadore were collected by Adolf von Berenger, some from the area of Verona by Carlo Tonini, while those of foreign origin by Elias Magnus Fries (Lapland), Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer and Friedrich Welwitsch (Central Europe), Gustav Wilhelm Körber (Sweden), Sébastien Lenormand (France), and Wilhelm Siegmund (Germany). Twenty-six specimens have no indication of the locality of provenance. Two of them come from the herbaria of Giuseppe De Notaris and Santo Garovaglio. The collection consists of four issues containing 231 loose herbarium sheets and was probably arranged by Michelangelo Minio, director of the Museum from 1923 to 1947. The specimens are ordered alphabetically by genus and separated by substrate. Two issues contain lichens collected “on bark and soil,” while the other volumes contain lichens collected “on rock and bricks.” Each sheet hosts one to many specimens, either placed in envelopes or glued on a cardboard, sometimes folded for preservation purposes.
Keywords: Lichens, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota
Data/Metadata Repositories
DiSSCo-ITINERIS Metadata Catalog
DiSSCo-ITINERIS is a network of Natural Science Collections (NSC) hosted at natural history museums, botanical gardens, and research institutes across Italy aimed at building one of the nodes of the European Research Infrastructure DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections - www.dissco.eu). The ultimate goal is to digitally integrate and unify all European natural science collections, sharing common access, curation, policies, and practices across countries, and providing specimen data and metadata that comply with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). DiSSCo-ITINERIS is part of the Next Generation EU (PNRR) project ITINERIS ("Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System", project no. IR0000032 - https://www.itineris.cnr.it), aimed at coordinating and integrating the Italian nodes of 22 European Research Infrastructures (RI).
Keywords: Metadata, GBIF, Plants, Animals, Fungi, Bacteria, Viruses, Maps, Geographic distribution
BioMemory
BioMemory is the network of biological collections of the Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences (DiSBA) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) for bio-monitoring, biodiversity conservation, agri-food and environmental sustainability, and human well-being. To date, 55,073 specimen records and 56 CNR-DiSBA collections of living organisms (plants, fungi, bacteria, viruses, animals) are available. The occurrence datasets are complemented by 9 DNA sequence datasets (598 sequence records from 416 accessions, totaling 438,175 base pairs), 3 SSR markers datasets (3,054 SSR markers profiles at 22 loci), two trait score datasets (63 accessions characterized for 47 different morpho-phenological traits, overall 1,521 records), two datasets with climatic data at the sites of specimen’s collection, downscaled from past climatic series and corrected for elevation (1,038 sampling sites and 46 climatic parameters, totaling 47,748 records), and one dataset including all the literature references cited (319 records, each endowed with DOI/URL).
Keywords: Collections, Specimens, Plants, Animals, Fungi, Bacteria, Viruses, DNA Sequences, SSR Markers, Climate Change, Plant Phenotypic Traits
Collections/Institutions
Global Registry of Scientific Collections
The Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) is a comprehensive, community-curated clearinghouse of information about scientific collections in the GBIF registry, providing details on physical collections, their content, location, contacts, associated institutions, and collection codes and identifiers. The registry currently lists 789 Italian institutions holding 1,443 Natural Science Collections (NSC), but only few of them include specimen data/metadata. As part of the ITINERIS project, 76 NSCs from 23 Italian institutions have been reordered and published on GRSciColl.
Keywords: Natural Science Collections, Museums, Botanical Gardens, Research Collections
The Italian participation in GBIF
Italy has recently become a voting member of the GBIF Consortium. Currently, there are 38 Italian publishers on GBIF, with 640 published datasets and over 7 million occurrences from 178 countries and territories worldwide.
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Technical Info and Facilities
DiSSCo Knowledge Area
The Knowledge Area of DiSSCo RI is where one can find all project outputs, including workshops, demos, videos, publications, and more. In particular, it hosts a series of video demonstration sessions by DiSSCo’s development team at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, showcasing progress in developing DiSSCo’s data infrastructure and core services. In addition, a set of relevant papers on DiSSCo RI and the main concepts of data collection and bioinformatics are listed.
Keywords: Technical demos, Latimer Core Workshop, Taxon Hypotheses, Machine Annotation Service, Specimen Label Automatic Transcription Service
Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) hosted by CNR-IBBR
The IPT is an open-source freeware developed by the ICT team of GBIF and used by organizations around the world to share biodiversity data. The IPT platform has public pages that display rich metadata and data versioning for each dataset, as well as a restricted-access section for easily managing data and metadata. Moreover, datasets can be tagged with DOIs upon registration in the GBIF platform and downloaded as zip archives along with their rich metadata. The possibility of adding multiple publishers to a single IPT installation enables many different institutions to share the same platform, provided they are registered as GBIF publishers. Data providers are invited to use the CNR-IBBR IPT platform to publish their data/metadata on GBIF.
Keywords: IPT, Darwin Core, DwC Mapping, DOI, Dataset Publication, GBIF Registration
Italian Checklist
ITALIC 8.0, the information system on Italian lichens
The ITALIC 8.0 web portal organizes nomenclatural and distributional data from recent checklists of Italian native and alien vascular plants (and their subsequent updates), with links to resources from other projects. Italic 8.0 is part of the Dryades Checklist at the University of Trieste, Italy.
Keywords: Italian lichens, checklist
The flora of Italy 2024.3
The Flora of Italy web portal organizes nomenclatural and distributional data from recent checklists of Italian native and alien vascular plants (and their subsequent updates), with links to resources from other projects.
Keywords: Italian flora, wild plants, checklist
