The field of biodiversity informatics has developed rapidly in recent years, with broad availability of large‐scale information resources. However, online biodiversity information is biased spatially as a result of slow and uneven capture and digitization of existing data resources. The West African Plants Initiative approach to data capture is a prototype of a novel solution to the problems of the traditional model, in which the institutional “owner” of the specimens is responsible for digital capture of associated data.

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一种在生成主要生物多样性信息资源方面高效、以需求为导向的进展的新模式。

近年来，生物多样性信息学领域发展迅速，大规模信息资源广泛可用。然而，由于现有数据资源的捕获和数字化缓慢且不均衡，在线生物多样性信息在空间上存在偏差。西非植物倡议的数据采集方法是解决传统模型问题的新解决方案的原型，其中标本的机构“所有者”负责相关数据的数字采集。