The Biodiversity Libroscope: A Community roadmap to liberate and mobilize knowledge from scientific publications
Authors/Creators
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Agosti, Donat1
- Andermann, Britt2
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Arvanitidis, Christos3
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Bagstad, Kenneth4
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Bánki, Olaf5
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Borsch, Thomas6
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gemeinholzer, birgit7
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Grossart, Hans-Peter8
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Güntsch, Anton6
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Häuser, Christoph9
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Hirsch, Tim10
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Hoffmann, Jana11
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Kasperek, Gerwin12
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Krug, Rainer M13, 14
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Mietchen, Daniel15, 6, 8
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Mounce, Ross16
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Niamir, Aidin17
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Nicolson, Nicky18
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Penev, Lyubomir19
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Robertson, Tim20
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Ruch, Patrick21, 22
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Uetz, Peter23
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Upham, Nathan24
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Urbach, Davnah25, 26
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Wallis, Elycia27, 28
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Waterhouse, Robert22
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Yadav, Gitanjali29
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Bénichou, Laurence30
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Plazi Verein
- 2. Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- 3. LifeWatch ERIC, Seville, Spain
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United States Department of the Interior
- 5. Catalogue of Life
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Freie Universität Berlin
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University of Kassel
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Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
- 9. Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, Museum für Naturkunde, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
- 10. Tim Hirsch Consulting
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Senckenberg German Entomological Institute
- 12. Goethe University Frankfurt, JCS Library, Frankfurt, Germany
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University of Zurich
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Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
- 15. FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut fur Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH Berlin
- 16. Arcadia Fund
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Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- 19. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 20. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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HES-SO Genève
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
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Virginia Commonwealth University
- 24. Arizona State University
- 25. Université de Lausanne, Centre interdisciplinaire de la recherche sur la montagne
- 26. Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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Atlas of Living Australia
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National Institute of Plant Genome Research
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Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Description
Developments in open science, remote sensing, digitization, genomics, and artificial intelligence offer unprecedented opportunities to understand biodiversity and respond to its global decline. Yet vast volumes of biodiversity-relevant data remain locked within scientific publications and grey literature. Emerging from the Disentis Roadmap; a community vision endorsed by over 100 contributors, we propose the Biodiversity Libroscope: a community-driven framework to systematically unlock, FAIR-enable, and disseminate data from published sources. We outline key barriers, assess recent progress, and present use cases demonstrating feasibility. We argue that coordinated investment in literature-based data liberation will significantly expand research capacity, policy insight, and long-term reuse of biodiversity knowledge.
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Funding
- Arcadia Fund
- 2201-4761