The products that come out of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are some of the greatest examples of ROIs for both #openscience and #communityscience . Here's the first-ever global Avilist - a comprehensive birding check list of every recognized species of bird in the world:
https://ebird.org/news/avilist-a-unified-global-checklist-of-the-worlds-birds-is-now-available

AviList: A Unified Global Checklist of the World’s Birds is Now Available - eBird
A new unified global bird checklist, AviList, the most authoritative and up-to-date taxonomy of the world’s birds, was released on 11 June by a global team of experts in taxonomy, nomenclature, and bioinformatics. This collaboration includes researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the American Ornithological Society, BirdLife International, the International Ornithologists’ Union, and other […]