The Biodiversity Knowledge Hub (BKH): A Crosspoint and Knowledge Broker for FAIR and Linked Biodiversity Data

The Biodiversity Knowledge Hub (BKH) is a web platform acting as an integration point and broker of open, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) interlinked corpora biodiversity data, services knowledge. It serves the entire research cycle, from specimens observations to sequences, taxon names finally scientific publications. strategic aim BKH support functional integrated knowledge graph emerging new community users. aimed at researchers in widest sense, infrastructures publishers (Fig. 1). key product EU-funded Community Integrated Library (BiCIKL) project (Penev et al. 2022). four goals BiCIKL are: Improved access open data; Establishing bi-directional data linkages between infrastructures; Development methods workflows for semantic publishing, harvesting, liberating, linking, accessing re-using literature (specimens, material citations, samples, taxonomic names, treatments, figures, tables); Testing implementation through use cases call projects outside project. consists several modules, such Home page that presents main user groups benefits provides them. has guidelines protocols, various documents on policies, functions, recommendations And it relevant projects, linked data. In core Data Place (FDP), which novel tools developed over course BiCIKL. future, FDP will also accept provided by contributors. three sub-modules: Infrastructures organisations: Lists contributing organisations with short descriptions links their services. Research are sorted type they aggregate serve: specimens, literature. Linked services: A catalogue deliver participating infrastructures. Examples ChecklistBank, LifeBlock, OpenBiodiv, TreatmentBank, SIBiLS “BiodiversityPMC”, eBioDiv, SynoSpecies, PlutoF Curation Tool others. Become contributor application form: formal questionnaire basis check suitability organisation or infrastructure join BKH. Part form checklist. navigation system universe interconnected contributors collaborators anybody, anywhere, any time.