Cacao, Cocao, or Cocoa? Reconciliation of Taxonomic Names in Biodiversity Heritage Library

Yi Yun Cheng, Khanh Linh Hoang, Bertram Ludäscher

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Abstract

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) currently hosts more than 150 thousand titles, and 57 million OCR-scanned pages on biodiversity literature dating back to the 16th century. While great research efforts have been conducted to extract taxonomic names in BHL's literature the issue of name reconciliation has yet to be studied. Through the use case of Theobroma cacao, commonly known as chocolate plants, this research aims at presenting a framework to reconcile species names in BHL by merging external taxonomies. We demonstrate this by using a logic-based, taxonomy alignment approach to match variations of species and subspecies names of Theobroma cacao from four major biodiversity sources: the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and the United States Department of Agriculture PLANTS Database (USDA Plants).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKnowledge Organization at the Interface - Proceedings of the 16th International ISKO Conference, 2020
EditorsMarianne Lykke, Tanja Svarre, Mette Skov, Daniel Martinez-Avila
PublisherNomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co KG
Pages88-97
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783956507755
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event16th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, ISKO 2020 - under the theme Knowledge organization - Aalborg, Denmark
Duration: Jul 6 2020Jul 8 2020

Publication series

NameAdvances in Knowledge Organization
Volume17
ISSN (Print)0938-5495

Conference

Conference16th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, ISKO 2020 - under the theme Knowledge organization
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAalborg
Period7/6/207/8/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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