@article {Good2006Life,
	title = {The Life Sciences Semantic Web is Full of Creeps!},
	journal = {Brief Bioinform},
	volume = {7},
	number = {3},
	year = {2006},
	month = {September},
	pages = {275{\textendash}286},
	abstract = {The Semantic Web for the Life Sciences (SWLS), when realized, will dramatically improve our ability to conduct bioinformatics analyses using the vast and growing stores of web-accessible resources. This ability will be achieved through the widespread acceptance and application of standards for naming, representing, describing and accessing biological information. The W3C-led Semantic Web initiative has established most, if not all, of the standards and technologies needed to achieve a unified, global SWLS. Unfortunately, the bioinformatics community has, thus far, appeared reluctant to fully adopt them. Rather, we are seeing what could be described as semantic creep{\textquoteright}{\textendash}timid, piecemeal and ad hoc adoption of parts of standards by groups that should be stridently taking a leadership role for the community. We suggest that, at this point, the primary hindrances to the creation of the SWLS may be social rather than technological in nature, and that, like the original Web, the establishment of the SWLS will depend primarily on the will and participation of its consumers. 10.1093/bib/bbl025},
	keywords = {biodiversity, biodiversity-informatics, informatics, lsid, web20},
	issn = {1467-5463},
	doi = {10.1093/bib/bbl025},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbl025},
	author = {Good, Benjamin M. and Wilkinson, Mark D.}
}
@article {Schmeller08:volunteers,
	title = {Advantages of Volunteer-Based Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe},
	journal = {Conservation Biology},
	volume = {23},
	number = {2},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {307{\textendash}316},
	address = {Station d{\textquoteright}Ecologie Exprimentale du CNRS Moulis, 09200 Saint Girons, France; UFZ Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Conservation Biology, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany; UMR 5173 \& UMR 7179 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, Musum National},
	abstract = {Without robust and unbiased systems for monitoring, changes in natural systems will remain enigmatic for policy makers, leaving them without a clear idea of the consequences of any environmental policies they might adopt. Generally, biodiversity-monitoring activities are not integrated or evaluated across any large geographic region. The EuMon project conducted the first large-scale evaluation of monitoring practices in Europe through an on-line questionnaire and is reporting on the results of this survey. In September 2007 the EuMon project had documented 395 monitoring schemes for species, which represents a total annual cost of about 20AC4 million, involving more than 46,000 persons devoting over 148,000 person-days/year to biodiversity-monitoring activities. Here we focused on the analysis of variations of monitoring practices across a set of taxonomic groups (birds, amphibians and reptiles, mammals, butterflies, plants, and other insects) and across 5 European countries (France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, and Poland). Our results suggest that the overall sampling effort of a scheme is linked with the proportion of volunteers involved in that scheme. Because precision is a function of the number of monitored sites and the number of sites is maximized by volunteer involvement, our results do not support the common belief that volunteer-based schemes are too noisy to be informative. Just the opposite, we believe volunteer-based schemes provide relatively reliable data, with state-of-the-art survey designs or data-analysis methods, and consequently can yield unbiased results. Quality of data collected by volunteers is more likely determined by survey design, analytical methodology, and communication skills within the schemes rather than by volunteer involvement per se. Sin sistemas de monitoreo robustos y objetivos, los cambios en los sistemas naturales seguir{\'a}n siendo un enigma para los pol\'{\i}ticos, ya que no tendr{\'a}n una idea clara de las consecuencias de las pol\'{\i}ticas ambientales que puedan adoptar. Generalmente, las actividades de monitoreo de la biodiversidad no est{\'a}n integradas o evaluadas en ninguna regi{\'o}n geogr{\'a}fica extensa. El proyecto EuMon llev{\'o} a cabo la primera evaluaci{\'o}n a gran escala de las pr{\'a}cticas de monitoreo en Europa por medio de un cuestionario en l\'{\i}nea y presenta los resultados de este muestreo. En septiembre 2007, el proyecto EuMon hab\'{\i}a documentado 395 esquemas de monitoreo de especies, lo que representa un costo anual total de casi 20AC4 millones, y la participaci{\'o}n de m{\'a}s de 46,000 personas que dedican m{\'a}s de 148,000 personas d\'{\i}as/a{\~n}o en actividades de monitoreo de la biodiversidad. Aqu\'{\i}, nos centramos en el an{\'a}lisis de variaciones en las pr{\'a}cticas de monitoreo de un conjunto de grupos taxon{\'o}micos (aves, anfibios y reptiles, mam\'{\i}feros, mariposas, plantas y otros insectos) en cinco pa\'{\i}ses europeos (Francia, Alemania, Hungr\'{\i}a, Lituania y Polonia). Nuestros resultados sugieren que el esfuerzo de muestreo total de un esquema est{\'a} vinculado con la proporci{\'o}n de voluntarios que participan en el ese esquema. Debido a que la precisi{\'o}n es una funci{\'o}n del n{\'u}mero de sitios monitoreados y el n{\'u}mero de sitios es maximizado por la participaci{\'o}n de voluntarios, nuestros resultados no soportan la creencia popular de que los esquemas basados en voluntarios tienen demasiado ruido para ser informativos. Al contrario, consideramos que los esquemas basados en voluntarios proporcionan datos confiables, con dise{\~n}os de muestreo o m{\'e}todos de an{\'a}lisis de datos de vanguardia, y consecuentemente pueden proporcionar resultados objetivos. La calidad de los datos recolectados por voluntarios probablemente est{\'a} determinada por el dise{\~n}o del muestreo, la metodolog\'{\i}a anal\'{\i}tica y las habilidades de comunicaci{\'o}n de los esquemas y no por la participaci{\'o}n de voluntarios per se.},
	keywords = {biodiversity, citizen-based, monitoring, volunteers, web20},
	issn = {1523-1739},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01125.x},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01125.x},
	author = {Schmeller, Dirk S. and Pierre-Yves Henr, Y. and Romain Julliar, D. and Bernd Grube, R. and Jean Clober, T. and Frank Dzioc, K. and Szabolcs Lengye, L. and Piotr Nowick, I. and Eszter D{\'e}r, I. and Eduardas Budry, S. and Tiiu Kul, L. and Kadri Tal, I. and Bianca Bauc, H. and Josef Settel, E. and Chris van Swaa, Y. and Andrej Koble, R. and Valerija Babi, J. and Eva Papastergiado, U. and Klaus Henl, E.}
}
