TaxonWorks-powered Orthoptera Species File (OSF): An integrated web-based workbench for orthopterists

CIGLIANO, M.M.

Helsinki

Congreso; XXVI International Congress of Entomology; 2022

The Orthoptera Species File (OSF, http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/) is the most up to date and completetaxonomic database of the world’s Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids, crickets), both living and fossil.Nowadays, the classification of Orthoptera shown in OSF is used worldwide as the general reference for the group.The field of cybertaxonomy represents the confluence of traditional taxonomic goals with new ones, powered by the fullpotential of digital technology, information science, and computer engineering. An introduction to TaxonWorks (http://taxonworks.org), the new platform that integrates the best features of Species File software with new ones will bepresented. TaxonWorks is an integrated web-based workbench for taxonomists and biodiversity scientists. It is designedto capture, organize, and enrich data, share and refine it with collaborators, and package it for analysis and publication.This new platform, constituted by a collection of open source tools and services that cover all aspects of the taxonomicworkflow will help to maximize the efficiency of taxonomic work allowing the exchange of data among the orthopterists’community and helping to expand and enhance our knowledge of Orthoptera. The potential of using OSF for integratingmany of the most recent cybertaxonomic tools will be discussed. The presentation will explore the status of OSF withinTaxonWorks as it stands now, discussing the new features developed that will be used to add, explore, retrieve, anddownload data from OSF