The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker
in name infrastructures
Andreas Kohlbecker1, Yde de Jong2, Cherian Mathew1, Lorna Morris1, Andreas Müller1, Anton Güntsch1, Walter Berendsohn1
1Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Department of Research and Biodiversity Informatics2Universiteit of Finland (Joensuu) & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels)
The next 12 minutes
Quick overview on the Edit Platform for Cybertaxonomy
The Edit Platform as an information broker in selected projects PESI, the Pan-European Species directories
Infrastructure ViBRANT i4Life and BioVeL
Q & A
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy
The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy was initiated in the EU 6thFramework project EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy)
An open platform of loosely coupled componentsSupports the full taxonomic workflow (data acquisition to publication)Support for individual as well as team work Improve and assure re-usability of dataAn info broker to integrate, pipeline and validate external data
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
A birds view on the plaform components
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
An Information broker
DwC-A
ABCD
SDD
External services
CSV
Custom imports
Specimens & Observations
Descriptive data
Darwin Core Archive
Import / Export
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Ser
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Integrity Check( Validation )
OA
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MH
Harvesti
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TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
PESI
Pan-European Species directories InfrastructureTaxonomically integrates and secures the main pan-European species checklists
First all-taxa inventory for European species
● enable correct use of species names and their classification
● more accurately manage information on animals and plants, ...
Index Fungorum
Plants FungiMarine organismsAnimals
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Impo
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CDM-Store PESI Data Warehouse
PESI Portal
PESI - Technological platform
Checklists:
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PESI - Quality control mechanisms
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CDM-Store
ChecklistMaintainer
PESI Data Warehouse
PESI Portal
Integrity Checker
Report back integrity problems
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
ViBRANT : Interoperability of platforms
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
A framework for managing biodiversity information on the Web
biowikifarmJKI, BerlinNHM, London
UPMC, Paris
BGBM, BerlinA scalable data publish-ing framework with flexible data models
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
ViBRANT name search index
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
EDIT Platform as a name search index & portal for exploring all Scratchpads data
A single point of entry to all Scratchpad data
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
ViBRANT name search index
DwC-A
REST Serviceswith humane frontend
search scientific name
search full text
statistics
Link back to source page
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
An information broaker for ViBRANT
CSVXSLTXML
biowikifarm
search scientific name
search full text
statistics
SDD
DwC-A
Wik
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upREST Serviceswith humane frontend
TDWG 2013 - Andreas Kohlbecker The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
Create a Virtual Research Community.
Interlink and harmonise the taxonomic catalogues of six major Global biodiversity programmes with the Catalogue of Life
gather and analyse data for digital experiments:a virtual e-laboratory
Taxonomic backbone
workflows
Name Catalogue RESTservices (mimics GBIF Name Services)
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A new service layer for the Catalogue of Life
Name CatalogueREST Services
scientific name search& fuzzy search
scientific name information
taxon information
cyclicallyrefreshed
scientific names: name identifiers,
taxon identifiers, etc.
More information related to a name:
rank, citation, status
information related to a taxon: classification,
synonymy, etc.
streamlined, well documented and easy-to-use
services
Scientific workflow environments(Taverna & Kepler)
ID
DwC-A
Time for Q & A & Links
EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy
http://cybertaxonomy.eu/
Vibrant
http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/vibrant_index/search/vibrant_names.html
http://species-id.net/wiki/
PESI
http://www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi/
i4Life & BioVel
http://www.i4life.eu/
http://www.biovel.eu/