sustaining a biodiversity data infrastructure: openup !, biocase and gbif
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Sustaining a biodiversity data infrastructure: OpenUp !, BioCASe and GBIF. Walter Berendsohn Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Freie Universität Berlin. The OpenUp ! consortium. Museum of Natural History. Major achievement: the OpenUp ! information flow. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Sustaining a biodiversity data infrastructure:
OpenUp!, BioCASe and GBIF
Walter Berendsohn
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-DahlemFreie Universität Berlin
www.open-up.eu
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The OpenUp! consortium
Museum of Natural History
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• Implementing a sustainable pipeline from natural history collections to the European Virtual Library, Europeana,
• using BioCASE technology, and contributing to GBIF.
• Complemented with a system for – Data quality control – Data transformation – Semantic enrichment, including the
common names of species in various languages
to support data providers and facilitate access to natural history contentthrough the Europeana portal (and GBIF).
Major achievement: the OpenUp! information flow
www.open-up.eu
OpenUp! Data Quality Toolkit
BioCASE Monitor
OpenUp! Helpdesk
BioCASE Helpdesk
Assistance to data providers(275 PM for local data quality enhancements)
Major achievement: the OpenUp! information flow– serving the collectionBioCASE
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BioCASE
Enhanced data provision to GBIF
The OpenUp! information flow – serving global networks
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BioCASEBioCASE
BioCASE
Harvester
The OpenUp! information flow– harvesting
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BioCASE
Harvester
ABCD ESEEDM
Metadata enhancements(e.g. common names, synonyms)
The OpenUp! information flow– semantic enrichment
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BioCASE
Harvester
OAI-PM
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Harvester
ABCD ESEEDM
The OpenUp! information flow– to Europeana and other virtual libraries
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BioCASE
Harvester
OAI-PM
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Harvester
ABCD ESEEDM
1,5 Mio multimedia records mobilisedOne of the 10 largest content providers in Europeana
Major achievement: the OpenUp! information flow– works!
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E.g.: referral from the Europeana site to BGBM
Search example: Abrus precatorius
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Benefits for institutions• Increased web traffic to institutional websites
– BGBM: for the past 6 months average of 10% referrals from Europeana– RBGK: referrals from the Europeana site represented 28% of all visits to Kew’s
Herbarium Catalogue in February 2013; 24% over the six-month period of 1 September 2012 to 28 February 2013
• Common standard for information provision to networks like GBIF
• Common standard for information provision to virtual libraries
• Data quality enhancements at the source
• Specialisation of individual institutions– Botanical name service– Zoological name service– Common name service– Helpdesk
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The last project year: ensuring sustainability
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• BioCASE Provider Software: open-source, system-independent (maintenance BGBM Berlin); supporting toolkits (MfN Berlin, BGBM Berlin, RBG Kew, …)
• Further BioCASE development under SYNTHESYS 3 (DNA-Bank Network) and various national projects
• Source data mobilisation up and running at NH collections
• Helpdesk system established at RMCA Tervuren and BGBM
• Natural History Aggregator database: NHM London; 3 mirrors established (NBGB Meise, NHM Copenhagen, BGBM Berlin)
• Common names services by NHM Vienna
• Training and updating documentation: MRAC under EU-BON
Sustainability: most problems solved
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Costs of sustaining the OpenUp! infrastructure
• Sustainability not yet ensured for the aggregation process incl. indexing, testing and communications with Europeana
• Project partner is a company (AIT – Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz; engaged in a wide array of Europeana-related EU projects)
• Costs depend on number of ingests/year, number of data sources, number of new providers (technical support to be covered by BioCASE helpdesk)
• Cost estimate: Euro 2,000 to 5,000 p.a.
• The Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) has been approached with Service Level Agreement proposal