{"id":3630,"date":"2021-03-05T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T20:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/?page_id=3630"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:49:09","slug":"bien-4-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/biendata\/bien-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About BIEN 4.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong> BIEN 4.2<\/strong> database differs from <a href=\"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/biendata\/previous-bien-versions\/bien-4\/\">BIEN 4.1<\/a> in two major respects:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>GBIF content has been refreshed with a download of Kingdom Plantae from 16 November 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Major validations have been updated as follows:\n<ol>\n<li>TNRS (Taxonomic Name Resolution Service). Taxonomic database updated. See <a href=\"https:\/\/tnrs.biendata.org\/sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/tnrs.biendata.org\/sources\/<\/a>. Resolves standard taxon names name from verbatim submitted names.<\/li>\n<li>GNRS (Geographic Name Resolution Service). Reference database refactored and content updated to include <a href=\"https:\/\/gadm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GADM<\/a> political divisions names, in addition to the previously-included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geonames.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geonames<\/a>. Resolves standard political division name from verbatim submitted names.<\/li>\n<li>GVS (Geocoordinate Validation Service). This new service combines the previous PDGS (Political Division Geovalidation Service) and CDS (Centroid Detection Service) with additional validations, providing a single-point-of-access geocoordinate error detection service. Generates validation flags is_in_country, is_in_state_province and is_in_county, is_invalid_latlong, is_centroid, plus additional quantitative assessments of coordinate error and precision and proximity to known centroids.<\/li>\n<li>NSR (Native Species Resolver). Database updated to include global distribution information from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kew's<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantsoftheworldonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plants of the World Online.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CODS (Cultivated Observation Detection Service). Flags observations possibly or likely representing individual cultivated plants using two algorithms: (1) Proximity to locations of herbaria or botanical gardens, and (2) keywords or phrases in specimen and locality descriptions indicating cultivation. A completely rebuilt port to PostgreSQL\/PostGIS of an earlier prototype.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BIEN 4.2 database differs from BIEN 4.1 in two major respects: GBIF content has been refreshed with a download of Kingdom Plantae from 16 November 2020. Major validations have been updated as follows: TNRS (Taxonomic Name Resolution Service). Taxonomic database updated. See https:\/\/tnrs.biendata.org\/sources\/. Resolves standard taxon names name from verbatim submitted names. GNRS (Geographic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":134,"menu_order":-4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3789,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3630\/revisions\/3789"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}