Six steps for building a technological knowledge base for future taxonomic work.

Species are the principal category we use to study, understand, and conserve the natural world, so how we define species has a cascading impact across fields, well beyond biology [[1]]. Generalized workflows can be created by incorporating public sequence data and species delimitation methods [[6]], and these can be hosted online, like BOLD's BIN system for short DNA barcodes, but similar public data systems remain unrealized for many other data types. Since these data may disagree in species delineations (for example, DNA and morphology), we must explicitly state the justifications of new species designations and lines of evidence employed in revisions and elsewhere, including how they have been integrated. [Extracted from the article]