Species checklists are a crucial source of information for research and policy. Unfortunately, many traditional species checklists vary wildly in their content, format, availability and maintenance. The fact that these are not open, findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) severely hampers fast and efficient information flow to policy and decision-making that are required to tackle the current biodiversity crisis. Here, we propose a reproducible, semi-automated workflow to transform traditional checklist data into a FAIR and open species registry. We showcase our workflow by applying it to the publication of the Manual of Alien Plants, a species checklist specifically developed for the Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS) project. Our approach combines source data management, reproducible data transformation to Darwin Core using R, version control, data documentation and publication to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This checklist publication workflow is openly available for data holders and applicable to species registries varying in thematic, taxonomic or geographical scope and could serve as an important tool to open up research and strengthen environmental decision-making.

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清单配方：使物种数据开放和公平

物种清单是研究和政策的重要信息来源。不幸的是，许多传统的物种清单在内容、格式、可用性和维护方面差异很大。这些不公开、可查找、可访问、可互操作和可重用 (FAIR) 的事实严重阻碍了解决当前生物多样性危机所需的政策和决策的快速有效信息流。在这里，我们提出了一个可重复的、半自动化的工作流程，将传统的清单数据转换为公平和开放的物种登记。我们将我们的工作流程应用到外来植物手册的出版中来展示我们的工作流程，该手册是专为外来入侵物种追踪 (TrIAS) 项目开发的物种清单。我们的方法结合了源数据管理，使用 R、版本控制、数据文档和发布到全球生物多样性信息设施 (GBIF) 的可重现数据转换到 Darwin Core。该清单出版工作流程对数据持有者公开可用，适用于主题、分类或地理范围不同的物种登记处，可作为开放研究和加强环境决策的重要工具。