The Data liberation and Publishing tools course aims to tackle both sides of the publication process:
- the annotation, preservation and dissemination of data extracted from the literature by utilising the right pipelines and mechanisms;
- the publication of prospective scientific literature and data in advanced ways to support easier and efficient (re)sharing and (re)use of biodiversity data contained in an academic publication.
The course intends to showcase modern ways to complete the cycle of biodiversity data usage, including how to harvest, access, publish, preserve and cite scientific data and literature.
The Data liberation and Publishing tools course contains three modules:
Introduction: a brief overview of the current issues in biodiversity data publication and extraction; and an introduction of two key players addressing these issues: Plazi and Pensoft.
Data liberation: a learning resource designed to inform about the benefits of data liberation tools, including the services provided by the Plazi workflow. This module is to also provide knowledge and practical skills necessary to contribute to the digitisation and standardisation of taxonomic literature.
Publishing tools: a learning resource designed to inform about the benefits and features of the latest semantic technologies and formats in the context of biodiversity data, scientific publications and scholarly journals. This module is to also demonstrate how the scholarly publishing process can be streamlined, in order to assist researchers and scientific journals publish, share and preserve their biodiversity research in compliance with the FAIR data principles.
Both the Data liberation and the Publishing tools modules refer to two tools devised within the EU-funded project: Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL), and featured in the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub (BKH).