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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">ARPHA Preprints</journal-title>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/arphapreprints.e111241</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Software Description</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="biological_taxon">
          <subject>Phocidae</subject>
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          <subject>Data analysis &amp; Modelling</subject>
          <subject>Databases</subject>
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          <subject>Atlantic Ocean</subject>
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        <article-title>SES Dashboard: A linked data platform to manage data on Southern Elephant Seals</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zárate</surname>
            <given-names>Marcos</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">zarate@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8851-8602</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Eder</surname>
            <given-names>Elena</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Delrieux</surname>
            <given-names>Claudio</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A4">4</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lewis</surname>
            <given-names>Mirtha</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Nuñez</surname>
            <given-names>Gustavo</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ceballos</surname>
            <given-names>Dario</given-names>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Centre for the Study of Marine Systems, Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT-CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Argentina</addr-line>
        <institution>Centre for the Study of Marine Systems, Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT-CONICET)</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Puerto Madryn</addr-line>
        <country>Argentina</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Argentina Ocean Biodiversity Information System (ArOBIS), Puerto Madryn, Argentina</addr-line>
        <institution>Argentina Ocean Biodiversity Information System (ArOBIS)</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Puerto Madryn</addr-line>
        <country>Argentina</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A3">
        <label>3</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Center for the Study of Marine Systems, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, (CESIMAR-CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Argentina</addr-line>
        <institution>Center for the Study of Marine Systems, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, (CESIMAR-CONICET)</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Puerto Madryn</addr-line>
        <country>Argentina</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A4">
        <label>4</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Bahía Blanca Scientific and Technological Center, (ICIC-CONICET), Bahía Blanca, Argentina</addr-line>
        <institution>Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Bahía Blanca Scientific and Technological Center, (ICIC-CONICET)</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Bahía Blanca</addr-line>
        <country>Argentina</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A5">
        <label>5</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Computer Research Laboratory, National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, (LINVI-UNPSJB), Puerto Madryn, Argentina</addr-line>
        <institution>Computer Research Laboratory, National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, (LINVI-UNPSJB)</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Puerto Madryn</addr-line>
        <country>Argentina</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Marcos Zárate (<email xlink:type="simple">zarate@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>17</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/8976FF74-DD81-53C3-ACBB-3BB42E091D27">8976FF74-DD81-53C3-ACBB-3BB42E091D27</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>16</day>
          <month>08</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>16</day>
          <month>08</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Marcos Zárate, Elena Eder, Claudio Delrieux, Mirtha Lewis, Gustavo Nuñez, Dario Ceballos</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>In this paper we present SES Dashboard, a linked data platform developed to manage information of Southern Elephant Seals (<italic>Mirounga leonina</italic> Linnaeus, 1758) from Península Valdés colony (Patagonia, Argentina), collected over more than two decades of research. Southern elephant seals spend most of their time foraging at sea, alternating with two short and highly synchronized haul-outs ashore for breeding and molting. On land, the distribution of the colony extends along ≈350 km, while at sea individuals travel thousands of kilometers The information recorded is mainly based on georeferenced data from censuses, bioregisters (trajectories at sea and hydrographic profiles), and bibliography based on the above data.</p>
        <p>SES Dashboard was released in 2021 and published following the principles of Linked Open Data to improve its visibility, to make it shareable, extensible and easily reusable through a SPARQL endpoint.</p>
      </abstract>
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