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Twitter: @nickynicolson
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Keywords

biodiversity informatics, machine learning, data mining, museum collections, botany

Countries

United Kingdom

Biography

Senior Research Leader in Biodiversity Informatics at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Activities

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Employment (1)

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Richmond, London, GB

Senior Research Leader (Biodiversity Informatics and Spatial Analysis)
Employment
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Nicky Nicolson

Education and qualifications (1)

Brunel University London: London, GB

2019 | PhD (Computer Science)
Education
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Nicky Nicolson

Professional activities (2)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Copenhagen, DK

2018 to present | Open Data Ambassador
Service
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Nicky Nicolson

Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Copenhagen, DK

2019 | Young Researcher Award
Distinction
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Nicky Nicolson

Funding (4)

Synthesys+

2019-02 to present | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://www.synthesys.info
Part of GRANT_NUMBER: 823827
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Nicky Nicolson

Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections

2018-10 to 2022-10 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: CA17106
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Nicky Nicolson

Coordination and policy development in preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System, addressing Acquisition, Curation, Synthesis, Interoperability and Dissemination

2012-09-01 to 2014-08-31 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3796647
GRANT_NUMBER: 312848
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Nicky Nicolson
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A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure

2008-05-01 to 2011-04-30 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.3772131
GRANT_NUMBER: 223806
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Nicky Nicolson via DimensionsWizard

Works (40)

Global access to nomenclatural botanical resources: Evaluating open access availability

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET
2023-09-21 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10438
Part of ISSN: 2572-2611
Part of ISSN: 2572-2611
Contributors: Nicky Nicolson; Maarten Trekels; Quentin J. Groom; Sandra Knapp; Alan Paton
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Nicky Nicolson

Connecting the Dots: Aligning human capacity through networks toward a globally interoperable Digital Extended Specimen (DES) infrastructure

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
2023-09-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/biss.7.112390
Part of ISSN: 2535-0897
Contributors: Elizabeth Ellwood; Wouter Addink; John Bates; Andrew Bentley; Jutta Buschbom; Alina Freire-Fierro; José Fortes; David Jennings; Kerstin Lehnert; Bertram Ludäscher et al.
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Nicky Nicolson

The Role of the OLS Program in the Development of echinopscis (an Extensible Notebook for Open Science on Specimens)

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
2023-09-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/biss.7.112318
Part of ISSN: 2535-0897
Contributors: Nicky Nicolson; Eve Lucas
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Nicky Nicolson

Open science tools: Supporting hands-on creation of the "digital extended specimen"

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
2022-08-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/biss.6.91123
Part of ISSN: 2535-0897
Contributors: Nicky Nicolson
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Nicky Nicolson

Harnessing Large-Scale Herbarium Image Datasets Through Representation Learning

Frontiers in Plant Science
2022-01-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.806407
Part of ISSN: 1664-462X
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Nicky Nicolson

Identifying and clustering duplicate vouchers across herbarium collections using GBIF tools

Botany 2021
2021-07-19 | Conference abstract
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Nicky Nicolson

Identifying and clustering similar occurrences across collections using GBIF tools

Digital Data in Biodiversity Research
2021-06-07 | Conference abstract
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Nicky Nicolson

Assessing the structure of the global herbarium collection community using metadata records

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
2020 | Conference paper
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Nicky Nicolson

Plant and fungal collections: Current status, future perspectives

Plants, People, Planet
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10141
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Nicky Nicolson

Quality issues in georeferencing: From physical collections to digital data repositories for ecological research

Diversity and Distributions
2020-12-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13208
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Nicky Nicolson

People are essential to linking biodiversity data

Database
2020-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/database/baaa072
Part of ISSN: 1758-0463
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Nicky Nicolson

State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2020

2020-09 | Report
DOI: 10.34885/172
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Nicky Nicolson

Automating the construction of higher order data representations from heterogeneous biodiversity datasets

2019-11-19 | Dissertation or Thesis
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/19620
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Nicky Nicolson

Examining Herbarium Specimen Citation: Developing a literature-based institutional impact measure

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
2019-06-19 | Conference abstract
DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.37198
Part of ISSN: 2535-0897
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Nicky Nicolson

Integrating Collector and Author Roles Across Specimen and Publication Datasets

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
2019-06-13 | Conference abstract
DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.35866
Part of ISSN: 2535-0897
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Nicky Nicolson

Progress in Authority Management of People Names for Collections

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
2019-06-13 | Conference abstract
DOI: 10.3897/biss.3.35074
Part of ISSN: 2535-0897
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Nicky Nicolson

Interactive visualisation of field-collected botanical specimen metadata: supporting data mining process development

International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2018)
2018-10-26 | Conference poster
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4271237.v1
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Nicky Nicolson

Specimens as Research Objects: Reconciliation across Distributed Repositories to Enable Metadata Propagation

arXiv:1809.07725 [cs]
2018-09 | Journal article
ARXIV: 1809.07725
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Nicky Nicolson

Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects

Database
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/database/bax003
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Nicky Nicolson

Data Carpentry Python Ecology Lesson V2017.04.0

2017 | Manual
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.570050
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Nicky Nicolson

Data Carpentry SQL Ecology Lesson V2017.04.0

2017 | Manual
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.570049
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Nicky Nicolson

Impact of e-publication changes in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Melbourne Code, 2012)-did we need to "run for our lives"?

BMC evolutionary biology
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-0961-8
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Nicky Nicolson

Identifying Novel Features from Specimen Data for the Prediction of Valuable Collection Trips

International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis
2017-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68765-0_20
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Nicky Nicolson

(276--279) Proposals to provide for registration of new names and nomenclatural acts

Taxon
2016 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

A common registration-to-publication automated pipeline for nomenclatural acts for higher plants (International Plant Names Index, IPNI), fungi (Index Fungorum, MycoBank) and animals (ZooBank)

ZooKeys
2016 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

Clustering botanical collections data with a minimised set of features drawn from aggregated specimen data

TDWG 2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2016 | Conference paper
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Nicky Nicolson

Counting counts: Revised estimates of numbers of accepted species of flowering plants, seed plants, vascular plants and land plants with a review of other recent estimates

Phytotaxa
2016 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

Report of the Special Committee on Registration of Algal and Plant Names (including fossils)

Taxon
2016 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

Reviewing data integration and mobilisation using name reconciliation and identifier services

TDWG 2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2016 | Conference paper
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Nicky Nicolson

State of the world's plants 2016

2016 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

A simple model for large-scale data mobilization across a diverse organisation

TDWG 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2015 | Conference paper
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Nicky Nicolson

Strings to things: a user-friendly framework for data reconciliation

TDWG 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2015 | Conference paper
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Nicky Nicolson

PESI - a taxonomic backbone for Europe

Biodiversity Data Journal
2015-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5848
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Nicky Nicolson

Enriched biodiversity data as a resource and service

Biodiversity Data Journal
2014-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1125
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Nicky Nicolson

Using Complementarity to Improve Plant Specimen Digitization

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
2014-06 | Conference abstract
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Nicky Nicolson

The Economic Botany data collection standard

TDWG 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2013 | Conference paper
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Nicky Nicolson

A Beginner's Guide to Persistent Identifiers, version 1.0

Copenhagen: Global Biodiversity Information Facility
2011 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

Letter of concern regarding Props.(117-119) to amend the ICBN to require pre-publication deposit of nomenclatural information

MYCOTAXON
2011 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

"Run for your lives! End of the World!"--Electronic publication of new plant names

Taxon
2010 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson

Adoption of persistent identifiers for biodiversity informatics

Report published by GBIF Secretariat
2009 | Journal article
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Nicky Nicolson
How many people are using ORCID?