tdwg 2015-nicolson-kew-mobilisation

A simple model for large-scale data mobilization across a diverse organisation

Nicky Nicolson, RBG Kew@nickynicolson

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual meetingNairobi, Kenya / 28th September – 1 October 2015

“Biodiversity Knowledge Graph”

Linked Open Data

Principle #4: "Refer to other things using their HTTP URI-based names when publishing data on the Web"

How?

Services philosophy (1)... Put the services and tools in the hands of

researchers

Services philosophy (2)... Use general tools, focus on unique problems

http://bit.ly/k-names-service

Connecting name data to other resources

Schinus longifolius var. paraguariensis(Hassler) F. Barkley

Taxonomic status of 229196-2?

229196-2

Synonym

IPNI Reconciliation Service

IPNI Reconciliation Service

IPNI Reconciliation Service

We’ve converted a name to an identifier

Schinus longifolius var. paraguariensis(Hassler) F. Barkley

229196-2

Now we can use that identifier to add in more data…

Connecting name data to other resources

Schinus longifolius var. paraguariensis(Hassler) F. Barkley

Taxonomic status of 229196-2?

229196-2

Synonym

Different kinds of research…

http://bit.ly/plant-species-gendergap

Thanks to:• Biodiversity Informatics team (Abigail Barker,

Matt Blissett, James Crowe, John Iacona, Rob Turner, Alecs Gueder)

• Plant & fungal name curation team (Christine Barker / Irina Belyaeva / Katherine Challis / Rafael Govaerts / Paul Kirk / Heather Lindon / Emma Williams)

• Data improvement team (Anna Lynch, Rachel Witherow, Malin Rivers, Esther Wainwright-Deri)

@nickynicolson / n.nicolson@kew.org

http://bit.ly/k-names-service

http://github.com/RBGKew

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual meetingNairobi, Kenya / 28th September – 1 October 2015