title: B-HIT - A Tool for Harvesting and Indexing Biodiversity Data.
abstract: With the rapidly growing number of data publishers, the process of harvesting and indexing information to offer advanced search and discovery becomes a critical bottleneck in globally distributed primary biodiversity data infrastructures. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) implemented a Harvesting and Indexing Toolkit (HIT), which largely automates data harvesting activities for hundreds of collection and observational data providers. The team of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem has extended this well-established system with a range of additional functions, including improved processing of multiple taxon identifications, the ability to represent associations between specimen and observation units, new data quality control and new reporting capabilities. The open source software B-HIT can be freely installed and used for setting up thematic networks serving the demands of particular user groups.
authors.affiliation: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kelbert
authors.affiliation: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Droege
authors.affiliation: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America.
authors.forename: Katharine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.affiliation: Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Kyle
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Braak
authors.affiliation: Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Canberra, Australia.
authors.forename: E Margaret
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Cawsey
authors.affiliation: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coddington
authors.affiliation: Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.affiliation: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whitacre
authors.affiliation: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Güntsch
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D044822:Biodiversity; D002965:Classification; D057225:Data Mining; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software