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Finding Agriculture among Biodiversity: Metadata in Practice

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Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2014)

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The breadth of biodiversity literature available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is potentially of great use to agricultural research. It provides access to literature drawn from across the world, and its archives document the Earth as it was one hundred years ago and more. However, this strength of BHL is also its weakness: the breadth of coverage of BHL can complicate finding relevant literature. In this short paper, we will explore the practical issues arising from attempting to filter out relevant legacy literature to support agricultural research.

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  1. Department of Computing and Communications, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Jane Bromley, David King & David R. Morse

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  1. Technik und Wirtschaft Fakulät, Hochschule Karlsruhe, Amalienstr. 81-87, 76133, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Sissi Closs

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Rudi Studer

  3. Department of Library Science & Information Systems, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Sindos,Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

  4. Information Engineering Research Unit, Computer Science Department, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona km. 33.6, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel-Angel Sicilia

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Bromley, J., King, D., Morse, D.R. (2014). Finding Agriculture among Biodiversity: Metadata in Practice. In: Closs, S., Studer, R., Garoufallou, E., Sicilia, MA. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 478. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13674-5_18

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