OpenBiodiv offers a broad biodiversity-related querying system to answer open-ended queries based on the data. OpenBiodiv can be used to obtain new knowledge about taxa, scientific articles, and their subsections, the examined materials and their metadata, localities, sequences, and a lot more. OpenBiodiv can discover hidden links within biodiversity data and can guide research into how data are used in scholarly articles.

The system can return information with a relevant visual representation about any one or a combination of its major data classes within a certain scope and semantic context.

Data classes are:

  • Taxon name (Taxon Name Usage, TNU)
  • Taxon treatment
  • Specimen
  • Sequence
  • Person (author)
  • Collection/Institution

Examples of data properties are:

  • Location
  • Date (of publication, sample collection, etc.)
  • Geo-coordinates
  • Habitat