About the Authors
- Ramona L. Walls
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona L. Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, Reed Beaman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison
* E-mail: rwalls@iplantcollaborative.org
Affiliation The iPlant Collaborative, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- John Deck
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona L. Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, Reed Beaman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison
Affiliation University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Robert Guralnick
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona L. Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, Reed Beaman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison
Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the CU Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- Steve Baskauf
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Reed Beaman
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona L. Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, Reed Beaman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison
Affiliation University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Stanley Blum
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Affiliation Research Informatics, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Shawn Bowers
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Affiliation Gonzaga University, Computer Science, Spokane, Washington, United States of America
- Pier Luigi Buttigieg
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona L. Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, Reed Beaman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison
Affiliation Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Neil Davies
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Affiliation University of California, Berkeley, Gump South Pacific Research Station, Moorea, French Polynesia
- Dag Endresen
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Affiliation GBIF Norway, Natural History Museum, University in Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Maria Alejandra Gandolfo
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Affiliation LH Bailey Hortorium, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Robert Hanner
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Affiliation Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
- Alyssa Janning
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Affiliation School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Leonard Krishtalka
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Affiliation Biodiversity Institute and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
- Andréa Matsunaga
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Affiliation University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Peter Midford
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Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
- Norman Morrison
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ramona L. Walls, John Deck, Robert Guralnick, Reed Beaman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Norman Morrison
Affiliation The BioVeL Project, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Éamonn Ó. Tuama
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Affiliation GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Mark Schildhauer
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Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
- Barry Smith
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Affiliation Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- Brian J. Stucky
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Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- Andrea Thomer
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Affiliation Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America
- John Wieczorek
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Affiliation 3101 VLSB, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- Jamie Whitacre
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Affiliation Informatics Branch, Information Technology Office, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
- John Wooley
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Affiliation University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Wrote the paper: RW RB PLB JD RG NM. Edited, revised, critiqued, and wrote small sections of the manuscript: S. Baskauf S. Blum S. Bowers ND DE MAG RH AJ LK AM PM ÉÓT MS B. Smith B. Stucky AT J. Wieczorek J. Whitacre J. Wooley. Developed Biological Collections Ontology: RW RB S. Blum S. Bowers PLB JD DE MAG RH AJ LK AM NM ÉÓT MS B. Smith B. Stucky AT J. Wieczorek J. Whitacre. Developed Environment Ontology: PLB NM. Developed Population and Community Ontology: RW B. Smith PM. Designed ontology framework: B. Smith. Developed Darwin-SW: S. Baskauf.