<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gries, Corinna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Beaulieu, Stace</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brown, Renée F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gastil-Buhl, Gastil</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Elmendorf, Sarah C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hsieh, Hsun-Yi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kui, Li</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maurer, Greg</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Porter, John H.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Change in Pictures: Creating best practices in archiving ecological imagery for reuse</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biodiversity Information Science and Standards</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BISS</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">data repository</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ecological data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">metadata</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">09/2020</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://biss.pensoft.net/article/59082/</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The research data repository of the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is building on over 30 years of data curation research and experience in the National Science Foundation-funded US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. It provides mature functionalities, well established workflows, and now publishes all &amp;lsquo;long-tail&amp;rsquo; environmental data. High quality scientific metadata are enforced through automatic checks against community developed rules and the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) standard. Although the EDI repository is far along in making its data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), representatives from EDI and the LTER are developing best practices for the edge cases in environmental data publishing. One of these is the vast amount of imagery taken in the context of ecological research, ranging from wildlife camera traps to plankton imaging systems to aerial photography. Many images are used in biodiversity research for community analyses (e.g., individual counts, species cover, biovolume, productivity), while others are taken to study animal behavior and landscape-level change.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some examples from the LTER Network include: using photos of a heron colony to measure provisioning rates for chicks (Clarkson and Erwin 2018) or identifying changes in plant cover and functional type through time (Peters et al. 2020). Multi-spectral images are employed to identify prairie species. Underwater photo quads are used to monitor changes in benthic biodiversity (Edmunds 2015). Sosik et al. (2020) used a continuous Imaging FlowCytobot to identify and measure phyto- and microzooplankton. Cameras at McMurdo Dry Valleys assess snow and ice cover on Antarctic lakes allowing estimation of primary production (Myers 2019).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has been standard practice to publish numerical data extracted from images in EDI; however, the supporting imagery generally has not been made publicly available. Our goal in developing best practices for documenting and archiving these images is for them to be discovered and re-used. Our examples demonstrate several issues. The research questions, and hence, the image subjects are variable. Images frequently come in logical sets of time series. The size of such sets can be large and only some images may be contributed to a dedicated specialized repository. Finally, these images are taken in a larger monitoring context where many other environmental data are collected at the same time and location.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Currently, a typical approach to publishing image data in EDI are packages containing compressed (ZIP or tar) files with the images, a directory manifest with additional image-specific metadata, and a package-level EML metadata file. Images in the compressed archive may be organized within directories with filenames corresponding to treatments, locations, time periods, individuals, or other grouping attributes. Additionally, the directory manifest table has columns for each attribute. Package-level metadata include standard coverage elements (e.g., date, time, location) and sampling methods. This approach of archiving logical &amp;lsquo;sets&amp;rsquo; of images reduces the effort of providing metadata for each image when most information would be repeated, but at the expense of not making every image individually searchable. The latter may be overcome if the provided manifest contains standard metadata that would allow searching and automatic integration with other images.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dornelas, Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antão, Laura H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moyes, Faye</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bates, Amanda E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magurran, Anne E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adam, Dušan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Akhmetzhanova, Asem A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Appeltans, Ward</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arcos, José Manuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arnold, Haley</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ayyappan, Narayanan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Badihi, Gal</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baird, Andrew H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barbosa, Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barreto, Tiago Egydio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bässler, Claus</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bellgrove, Alecia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Belmaker, Jonathan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bett, Brian J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bjorkman, Anne D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Błażewicz, Magdalena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blowes, Shane A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bloch, Christopher P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bonebrake, Timothy C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boyd, Susan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bradford, Matt</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brooks, Andrew J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brown, James H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bruelheide, Helge</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Budy, Phaedra</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carvalho, Fernando</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castañeda-Moya, Edward</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen, Chaolun Allen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chamblee, John F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chase, Tory J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Siegwart Collier, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Collinge, Sharon K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Condit, Richard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cooper, Elisabeth J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cornelissen, J. 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G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maluf Souza, Flaviana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castro Souza, Vinícius</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stallings, Christopher D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stanforth, Rowan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stanley, Emily H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mauro Sterza, José</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stevens, Maarten</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stuart-Smith, Rick</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rondon Suarez, Yzel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Supp, Sarah</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Ecology and Biogeography</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">biodiversity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">global</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">spatial</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">species richness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">temporal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">turnover</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">07/2018</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/geb.12729</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">27</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">760-786</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Motivation: &lt;/strong&gt;The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblages using a broad range of metrics. BioTIME is being developed as a community-led open-source database of biodiversity time series. Our goal is to accelerate and facilitate quantitative analysis of temporal patterns of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Main types of variables included: &lt;/strong&gt;The database contains 8,777,413 species abundance records, from assemblages consistently sampled for a minimum of 2 years, which need not necessarily be consecutive. In addition, the database contains metadata relating to sampling methodology and contextual information about each record.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spatial location and grain:&lt;/strong&gt; BioTIME is a global database of 547,161 unique sampling locations spanning the marine, freshwater and terrestrial realms. Grain size varies across datasets from 0.0000000158 km2 (158 cm2) to 100 km2 (1,000,000,000,000 cm2). Time period and grain BioTIME records span from 1874 to 2016. The minimal temporal grain across all datasets in BioTIME is a year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major taxa and level of measurement:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;BioTIME includes data from 44,440 species across the plant and animal kingdoms, ranging from plants, plankton and terrestrial invertebrates to small and large vertebrates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software format:&lt;/strong&gt; .csv and .SQL.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></issue></record></records></xml>