BIOfid Steps Up to Provide Introduced Species Information: The case of myriapods in German greenhouses

The German Specialized Information Service Biodiversity Research (BIOfid) is an infrastructure that provides scientists with information tailored to the specific needs of biodiversity research and related disciplines (Koch et al. 2017). service, in particular, promotes digital access legacy literature enables retrieval research-relevant data using natural language processing (NLP) machine learning (ML) techniques (Hemati 2016, Abrami 2020, Lücking 2021), a customized semantic search engine (Pachzelt 2021). Thus, historical species records can be found help estimate past present distributions as well potential range shifts. Future BIOfid services are planned specifically address interoperability linking for rapid integration into national international databases such Federation Biological Data (GFBio) Global Facility (GBIF). To this end, example, will contribute further developing open-source virtual environment (VRE) Scratchpads (Smith 2011) promote its usage scientific community. Based on use case myriapods, we test ability two tools mentioned above accelerate knowledge sharing by professional mobilization management methods. Certain myriapod known have been introduced from tropical subtropical environments Germany, country lies north temperate zone. In regard, scour BIOfid´s these find spatio-temporal evidence. Moreover, explore usefulness Myriatrix, instance specialized Myriapoda Onychophora, collate millipede centipede greenhouses. 35 diplopod 18 chilopod greenhouses (Decker 2014) integrated Myriatrix "Taxon Description" content type provided Scratchpads. Subsequently, more comprehensive, recent Cylindrodesmus hirsutus Pocock, 1889 (Martínez-Muñoz 2020 onwards) has incorporated. Finally, show how compiled GBIF through Scratchpads' Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) export.