Managing South African biodiversity research data: Meeting the challenges of rapidly developing information technology

Willem Coetzer; Michelle Hamer

doi:10.17159/sajs.2019/5482

Managing South African biodiversity research data: Meeting the challenges of rapidly developing information technology

Authors

Willem Coetzer South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2214-3910
Michelle Hamer 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa 2. School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8650-890X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5482

Keywords:

natural science collections, biodiversity data curation, biodiversity occurrence data, data integration, capacity development

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Published

2019-03-27

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Vol. 115 No. 3/4 (2019)

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Commentary

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Coetzer, W., & Hamer, M. (2019). Managing South African biodiversity research data: Meeting the challenges of rapidly developing information technology. South African Journal of Science, 115(3/4). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5482