herbarium management multiple-taxonomies-20130227_istc_tervuren

Herbarium Management: - - :

Multiple Taxonomies

CETAF / ISTC - Tervuren / 2013-02-27

General Thoughts

History / Structure / Size of Herbarium Collection(s)Activities of internal staff (few K pa)

purpose driven activities (specific coll.)random (general coll.)

Acquisition of material from external sourcespersonal herbaria (few K to 1 M)exchange of material (few K)

Acquisition of abandoned institutions (few 10K)Merging of institutions / collections ( parallel worlds )


General Thoughts

Purpose and Value of a Herbarium CollectionVoucher material – Verification possibleBasis for Floristic and Taxonomic workHistorical evidenceNomenclatural acts


General Thoughts

Collaborative / Integrative / Open approach

virtualized data reusable for others

Lookup tables ( webservices ) forPerson Names, incl. min. biographic data

Geographic Names

Scientific Names, incl. Common Name representations

Classification Systems / Taxonomies ( publications / webservices )

Data-Output via standard routes (rdf, xml, kml / ABCD, DwC, ESE, EDM)


issues

Taxonomy / Synonymyold vs. current(ly used) names and taxonomic concepts

incongruent taxonomies

Systems / Taxonomies available onlinePL / Tropicos / APweb / Euro+Med / FEu / MycoB / IFung / AlgaeB /

CoL /

analog Systems availableinfinite


filing issues

finding specimens

Arabidopsis thaliana / Cardaminopsis thaliana /

basionym: Arabis thalianaArrangement of specimens

Annotation on specimens


specimen

simplified data model

names taxonomic backbone

monographsrevisions

florasarticle-level

protologuesgeographic reference

actor / person / team institution / collection

type

reference outside local db (IPNI, IF, PL; HUH; geonames, BHL)(G)UID

det.


Building Services


Motivation

Virtual dynamic arrangement and analyses of Collections

Poaceae Types

Flora Projects ( Flora of Austria, Flora Iranica ) / native GBIF Austria / Synonymy

Creation of Hierarchy at any rank

Flora of Austria backbone

Online Resources


Classifications / Taxonomies

https://131.130.131.9/output/classificationBrowser.php

YII framework / service based architecture

Leverage

http://www.gbif.at/index.php?id=4552

Open Questions


Services

persistent availability of external services

caching vs. Incorporating of „used“ dataGUIDs

Data

persistent availability of external services

complementing DataStores

forking / propagating Content

Standards

TDWG / CIDOC - CRM

Open Questions


Filing

Update or Conservative

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