Best practice guide for compiling, maintaining, disseminating national species checklists
This practical guide can help those who need to start the compilation of a checklist for a given geographic area and taxonomic group, and would like to know more about how to make best use of the available resources, including those in the internet such as GBIF.
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GBIF Secretariat, 2012
Target audience: Those interested in building checklists, starting the work from existing resources.
Abstract: The main purpose of this best practice document is to provide guidance for policy and procedures relating to accessing and capturing information for national checklists, and to highlight some key issues which should be considered to promote standardisation, quality and use of these products.
Bibliographic citation: Hamer, M., Victor, J., Smith, G.F. (2012). Best Practice Guide for Compiling, Maintaining and Disseminating National Species Checklists, version 1.0, released in October 2012. Copenhagen: Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 40 pp, ISBN: 87-92020-48-8, Accessible at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=4752.
Rights: This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Rights Holder: Copyright © Hamer, M., Victor, J., Smith, G. & Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 2012
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User comments
Which classification to use? by Stephen Thorpe
One of the classification systems used by the larger global programmes such as the Encyclopedia of Life and Catalogue of Life are recommended for national checklists.
Firstly, EoL uses CoL classification, so these aren't different options. Secondly, I would advise great caution in using CoL classification, particularly for some groups, like weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), as these are full of errors and inconsistencies (e.g. same species listed in different genera, same genus listed in different families, etc.)
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