I've had a look at the GBIF data for the 100 Worst Aliens. Just to remind you, the intention is to see how long it takes for the records of invasive species take to reach GBIF.
This first graph is a histogram showing the days between observation (eventdate) and publication date (date_created) for each publication year. What is notable is that there is no indication that the time to publication is reducing with time. The GBIF analytics suggest that data are getting to GBIF faster, but this is not clear from this subset ( http://www.gbif.org/analytics/global).
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Grouping all the observations together this histogram summarises the rate of publication. Clearly, most observations take longer than a year to be published. [image: Inline images 2]
This is the same as above except for specimens. The numbers of records are a lot less and I assume they take longer to get to GBIF as a result of the the current digitisation of herbaria and museums. [image: Inline images 3]
Regards Quentin
Dr. Quentin Groom (Botany and Information Technology)
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