Principles for a names-based cyberinfrastructure to serve all of biology

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1950, 2008, Pages 153-163

  Patterson, David J ^a   Faulwetter, Sarah ^b   Shipunov, Alexey ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Data management; Encyclopedia of life; Taxonomic intelligence; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149462031     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1950.1.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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