APICURON is an open and freely accessible resource that tracks and credits the work of biocurators across multiple participating knowledgebases. Biocuration is essential to extract knowledge from research data and make it available in a structured and standardized way to the scientific community. However, processing biological data—mainly from literature—requires a huge effort that is difficult to attribute and quantify. APICURON collects biocuration events from third-party resources and aggregates this information, spotlighting biocurator contributions. APICURON promotes biocurator engagement implementing gamification concepts like badges, medals and leaderboards and at the same time provides a monitoring service for registered resources and for biocurators themselves. APICURON adopts a data model that is flexible enough to represent and track the majority of biocuration activities. Biocurators are identified through their Open Researcher and Contributor ID. The definition of curation events, scoring systems and rules for assigning badges and medals are resource-specific and easily customizable. Registered resources can transfer curation activities on the fly through a secure and robust Application Programming Interface (API). Here, we show how simple and effective it is to connect a resource to APICURON, describing the DisProt database of intrinsically disordered proteins as a use case. We believe APICURON will provide biological knowledgebases with a service to recognize and credit the effort of their biocurators, monitor their activity and promote curator engagement. Database URL: https://apicuron.org

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APICURON：一个赞扬和认可生物策展人工作的数据库

APICURON 是一种开放且可免费访问的资源，可跟踪和认可多个参与知识库的生物策展人的工作。生物管理对于从研究数据中提取知识并以结构化和标准化的方式向科学界提供知识至关重要。然而，处理生物数据（主要来自文献）需要付出巨大的努力，而且难以归因和量化。APICURON 从第三方资源收集生物策展活动并汇总这些信息，重点关注生物策展人的贡献。APICURON 促进生物策展人参与实施徽章、奖牌和排行榜等游戏化概念，同时为注册资源和生物策展人本身提供监控服务。APICURON 采用足够灵活的数据模型来表示和跟踪大多数生物管理活动。生物策展人通过其开放研究员和贡献者 ID 进行识别。策展活动的定义、评分系统以及分配徽章和奖牌的规则是特定于资源的，并且易于定制。注册资源可以通过安全可靠的应用程序编程接口 (API) 动态传输管理活动。在这里，我们展示了将资源连接到 APICURON 是多么简单和有效，并将本质上无序蛋白质的 DisProt 数据库描述为用例。我们相信 APICURON 将为生物知识库提供一项服务，以表彰和表彰其生物策展人的努力、监控他们的活动并促进策展人的参与。数据库网址：https://apicuron.org