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EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy – An Overview

Andreas Müller, Andreas Kohlbecker, Pepe Ciardelli, Julius Welby, Pere Roca, Niels Hoffmann, Patricia Kelbert, Lutz Suhrbier and Edit co-workers

Conference 2008

Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008

What’s that ??

Platform

Cybertaxonomy

Taxonomy, Computer, Web

… taxonomist

Platform

Train platform

(station)

Travel faster

Trains (tools)

Trac system

Adapter

Cache machine

Bookshop

McDonalds

Photoshop

Show it

Feedback Police

don’t loose anything

Timetable

reusable

Platform Architecture

YES• Independent components (desktop or web applications or

services for machines) • Old (existing) & new developments • Service oriented (SOA)• Adaptable to individual institutional IT preconditions• Gradual migration • Adaptable to new challenges

NO• Monolithic, single user interface application• Everything new

Platform Components

Data Domain

ABCD, DC, wmf, wfs TCS SDD

ABCD, DC

• No common standard/model exists

Common Data Model (CDM)

• New development• Covering all relevant

areas• Leans on existing

standards/ models (TCS, SDD, TDWG Ontology, Berlin Model, …)

• Exchange format• Expandabel

http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/cdm/v1/

CDM Library

• To access, persist & query CDM data

• Database independent

• Includes taxonomic business logic (Parsing, Validation,…)

• JAVA / Hibernate / Spring / Eclipse

• Local and remote API (Web Services)

• Bulk import/export

• Collaboration with other projects (e.g. CATE)

(Bulk) Import/ Export

New Platform Components

http://search.biocase.org/edit

Patricia Kelbert, BGBM

Uses GBIF dataAdvanced search by using taxonomic thesauriLarger resultHigh quality result

Specimen and Observation Explorer for Taxonomists

Geo Services

Online GIS Client & Map services

Taxonomically relevant layers

Multi species symbolization

Occurrence points

Distribution per region presence/absence

Publication ready quality

http://edit.csic.es/edit_geo/prototype/edit_project.htmlPere Roca, CSIC, Madrid; Frank Theeten, RMCA, Tervuren

ViTaL - Virtual Taxonomic Library

Meta Data Search (MetaLib)

OpenURL (SFX)

Harvester for known data sources (Falx)

Web UI & Web Service

Single Sign-On (Shibboleth)

EDIT Federation

Shibboleth Proxy

Drupal basedconfiguration

themeing

Data from CDM via web-service

Taxonomic treemultiple trees

filter

flattening

On-the-fly maps from GeoServer

Dataportals

Taxonomic Editor

Freetext ~ Word

↔ forms

Nameparser

Copy & Paste

Drag & Drop

Eclipse RCP

Warning & Errors

http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/TaxonomicEditorPepe Ciardelli, BGBM, Berlin

Descriptive Data

Use existing Tools

SDD import/export functionalities for the Common Data Model

Problem with different dialects

Elise Kunzelmann, Hélène Fradin; MNHN; Paris

Other Tools

http://www.bdtracker.net/

EDIT Platform Cybergate

Integrated Workflow (Example)

CDMCDM

CDM ServerCDM Server

Geo-server

Data-portal- Drupal

VitalVital

BCIBCI

DeltaLucidExpert²

Tax Editor

uBiouBioSpObET

Where are we ?

DONE– CDM v1.0 (v1.3)– CDM Library (v1.3)– Pilot implementations

• ViTaL, MapViewer, GeoService,Editor, Dataportals, Shibboleth, Taxonomic Editor

– Specimen & Observation Explorer is ready

TODOs: – Import-/Export– Cybergate– Tools: Full functionality– CDM / Library: Roles, Versioning, (Synchronisation)– Feedback from users

Thank you !

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