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Georeferencing Methods, Protocols, and Best Practices (or lack thereof)

Beaman, R., and Conn, B., 2003, Automated geoparsing and georeferencing of Malesian collection locality data, Telopea, 10(1), 43-52.

Beaman, R., J. Wieczorek, and S. Blum. 2004. Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections In a Distributed Digital Library Environment. D-Lib Magazine: 10(5). (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may04/beaman/05beaman.html)

Chaplin, G., 2001. A Tool for Georeferencing Historical Specimen Data. (import.apr) ArcView project. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, CA.

Chapman, A.D. (2004). Principles of Data Quality. Report for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2004. Copenhagen: GBIF. Consultation Draft [Accessed 2 Mar 2005].

Chapman, A.D. (2004). Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning. Report for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2004. Copenhagen: GBIF. Consultation Draft [Accessed 2 Mar 2005].

CONABIO - GEORREFERENCIACIÓN DE LAS LOCALIDADES DE COLECTAS BIOLÓGICAS

CONABIO, 2004. Manual de Prodecimientos para Georreferenciar. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad.

Frazier, C., Neville, T. and Racz, G. 2003. The INRAM Protocol for Georeferencing Biological Museum Specimen Records. View the pdf file

Geographic Names Board. 2003. Guidelines for Naming of Roads. Sydney: Geographic Names Board of New South Wales.

Hijmans, R.J., M. Schreuder, J. de la Cruz and L. Guarino, 1999. Using GIS to check co-ordinates of germplasm accessions. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 46: 291-296.

ICSM. 2001. Guidelines for the Consistent Use of Place Names. Intergovernmental Committee on Survey and Mapping: Committee for Geographic Names in Australia.

INRAM - INRAM Biodiversity Georeferencing Project

Knyazhnitskiy, O., Monk, R., Parker, N., and Baker, R., 2000. Assignment of Global Information System Coordinates to Classical Museum Localities for Relational Database Analyses. Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 199 (21 June 2000).

McGranaghan, M., 1993(a). Applications of artificial intelligence to extracting and refining locality information. In: R. Fortuner, ed. Advances in Computer Methods for Systematic Biology: Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Computer Vision. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

McGranaghan, M., D. Mark, and M. Gould, 1987. Automated provision of navigation assistance to drivers. The American Cartographer 14, no. 2: 121-138.

MaNIS/ORNIS/HerpNet - Georeferencing Guidelines

MaNIS - Classic Localities

MaPSTeDI - Georeferencing in MaPSTeDI

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology - Recording Locality Data

Murphey, P.C., R. P. Guralnick, R. Glaubitz, D. Neufeld, and J. Allen Ryan. Submitted. Georeferencing of museum collections: A review of problems and automated tools, and the methodology developed by the Mountain and Plains Spatio-Temporal Database-Informatics Initiative (MaPSTeDI). Phyloinformatics.

Neufeld, D. 2003. Georeferencing Natural History Collections: Preliminary results from requirements workshop September, 2003. (http://www.geomuse.org/tdwg/spatialdatagroup/georef_usecases_files/frame.htm)

NMNH. 1993. RapidMap. Geocoding locality descriptions associated with herbarium specimens. U.S. National Musuem of Natural History and Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. http://users.ca.astound.net/specht/rm/

Shattuck, S.O. (1997). EGaz, The Electronic Gazetteer. ANIC News 11: 9 http://www.ento.csiro.au/research/natres/anicnews/anicnews11_09.html.

Winker, K., 1999. How to bring collections data into the net. Nature 401 (7 October 1999): 524.