Spongemaps

SpongeMaps is a tool to promote unidentified or partially identified sponge collections to the level of Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs, or morphospecies concepts).
This online collaboration will expose multiple sponge collections moving them from the realm of "the unknown" to "the known" (including recognition of new taxa).
Comparison of image and other data from multiple datasets in real time will facilitate picking up misidentifications and other uncertain allocations promulgated by researchers working in isolation, including lack of access to the vast, largely antiquated primary taxonomic literature.

SpongeMaps是一款用于将未鉴定或部分鉴定的海绵标本集提升至操作分类单元（Operational Taxonomic Units，OTUs，即形态种概念）层级的工具。
本次在线协作将推动多份海绵标本集的公开化，使其从“未知范畴”转向“已知范畴”，其中涵盖新分类群的认定。
通过对多数据集的图像及其他数据开展实时比对，可助力发现独立开展研究的研究者所造成的鉴定错误及其他不确定分类归属问题，包括因无法获取海量且大多陈旧的原始分类学文献所引发的此类问题。