The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomyas an information brokerin 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 Informatics
2Universiteit 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 selectedprojects
PESI, the Pan-European Species directoriesInfrastructure
ViBRANT
i4Life and BioVeL
Q & A
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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 EU6thFramework project EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy)
An open platform of loosely coupled components
Supports the full taxonomic workflow (data acquisition to publication)
Support for individual as well as team work
Improve and assure re-usability of data
An info broker to integrate, pipeline andvalidate 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
REST Services
Integrity Check( Validation )
OAI-PMH
Harvesting
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
PESI
Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Taxonomically integrates and secures the main pan-European species checklists
First all-taxa inventory for European species
●enable correct use of species names and theirclassification
●more accurately manage information on animals andplants, ...
Index Fungorum
Plants
Fungi
Marine organisms
Animals
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
Import
CDM-Store
PESI DataWarehouse
PESI Portal
PESI - Technological platform
Checklists:
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
PESI - Quality control mechanisms
Import
CDM-Store
ChecklistMaintainer
PESI DataWarehouse
PESI Portal
IntegrityChecker
Report back integrity problems
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
ViBRANT : Interoperability of platforms
ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
A framework for managingbiodiversity information on theWeb
biowikifarm
JKI, Berlin
NHM, London
UPMC, Paris
BGBM, Berlin
A scalable data publish-
ing framework withflexible data models
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
ViBRANT name search index
ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
EDIT Platform as a name search index & portal forexploring 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
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
An information broaker for ViBRANT
CSV
XSLT
XML
biowikifarm
search scientific name
search full text
statistics
SDD
DwC-A
Wiki-Makup
REST Serviceswith humane frontend
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
Create a Virtual Research Community.
Interlink and harmonise the taxonomiccatalogues of six major Globalbiodiversity programmes with theCatalogue of Life
gather and analyse data fordigital experiments:
a virtual e-laboratory
Taxonomicbackbone
workflows
Name Catalogue RESTservices(mimics GBIF NameServices)
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The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures
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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 informationrelated to a name:rank, citation, status
information related to ataxon: classification,synonymy, etc.
streamlined,well documentedand easy-to-useservices
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/