Schulz, Katja
Ph. D., Independent Biodiversity Data Scientist
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Schulz, Katja
Ph. D., Independent Biodiversity Data Scientist
Trained in ecology, evolutionary biology, and entomology, Dr. Schulz has more than twenty years of experience in life science research, biodiversity data management, and the coordination of global collaborative knowledge networks. From 2009-2020 she was the program coordinator for the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, eol.org) at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Working with an international consortium of natural history museums and research institutions, she developed policies, workflows and user interfaces to facilitate the discovery, aggregation, management and electronic dissemination of biodiversity data. As an independent biodiversity data scientist and member of the NMNH Research Informatics Group, Dr. Schulz still contributes to the Encyclopedia of Life. She is in charge of EOL taxonomy development and maintenance and participates in the mobilization and dissemination of trait data, trait data curation, and strategic planning.
Positions
- Former Program Coordinator, National Museum of Natural History 2009 -
Research Areas
- Museum cooperation
- biodiversity (AGROVOC)
- entomology (AGROVOC)
- informatics (GEMET)
- taxonomy (AGROVOC)
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2018
- Parr, Cynthia Sims, Schulz, Katja S., Hammock, Jennifer, Wilson, Nathan, Leary, Patrick, Rice, Jeremy, and Corrigan, Robert J., Jr. 2016. "TraitBank: Practical semantics for organism attribute data." Semantic Web, 7, (6) 577–588. https://doi.org/10.3233/SW-150190. 2016
- ENVIRONMENTS and EOL: identification of Environment Ontology terms in text and the annotation of the Encyclopedia of Life. Bioinformatics. 31:1872-1874. 2015
- Finding Our Way through Phenotypes. PLoS Biology. 13:1-9. 2015
- Parr, Cynthia Sims, Wilson, Nathan, Leary, Patrick, Schulz, Katja, Lans, Kristen, Walley, Lisa, Hammock, Jennifer, Goddard, Anthony, Rice, Jeremy, Studer, Marie, Holmes, Jeffrey, and Corrigan, Robert, Jr. 2014. "The Encyclopedia of Life v2: Providing Global Access to Knowledge About Life on Earth." Biodiversity Data Journal, 2 e1079. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1079. 2014
- The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) as a scientific resource and outreach medium applied to the lichen family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota: Lecanorales). Lichenologist. 43:503-510. 2011
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Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
