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Systematics Databases, Taxonomic Referentials, and Validation of
Data in the Muséum National D'histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN)
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Nicolas Bailly1, 2, Thierry Bourgoin1, 3, Simon Tillier1
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Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Institut de Systématique (CNRS FR 1541),
43 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie, 43 rue Cuvier
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Laboratoire d'Entomologie (CNRS UPRES-A 8043), 45 rue Buffon
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With increasing development of databases in systematics, the need for a data quality assessment
tool has rised as a crucial point. The Institut de Systématique of the MNHN and the Université
Paris 6 (UPMC) houses currently numerous databases, of which 26 are already registered by BioCise.
In parallel, the Service du Patrimoine Naturel (SPN) within the Institut d'Écologie et de Gestion de la
Biodiversité (IEGB) of the MNHN, is in charge of fauna and flora inventories in the metropolitan and
overseas French territories. Reliable taxonomic referentials (TR) are a necessity for all, but their
validation and reliability remain unresolved difficulties. An internal MNHN working group has
started a new programme RefTax which aims at producing the national TR by involving the
systematists in the validation and quality assessment processes.
Among the RefTax objectives is a data validation procedure. The questions addressed are: how
to involve systematists? how to provide a(several) quality assessment(s) to users? should the data
quality be assessed as a whole (full record) and/or by field and/or by the components of quality
(standards conformity, semantics, accuracy, reliability)? are tools already available? how to integrate
tools in current databases? can we take the existing TR in MNHN and UPMC as generic models
(CIPA, for phlebotoms; CLEMAM, for European marine molluscs; FLOW, for planthoppers)?
Because the species are not constrained by country borders, international contacts and networks
are crucial. The group is thus involved in the data quality assessment in three systematics database
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