Paul hu bupdate_i_digbio_ecn_2012
- 1. www.iDigBio.org Update from the Entomological Collections Network (ECN) 2012 November 10 – 11, Knoxville, TN Debbie Paul, Greg Riccardi, Gil Nelson HUB
- 2. University of Florida Florida State University www.iDigBio.org
- 3. Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections • Facilitate use of biodiversity data to address environmental and economic challenges Researchers Educators General public Policy-makers • Enable digitization of biodiversity collections data Develop efficient and effective digitization standards and workflows Respond to cyberinfrastructure needs • Provide portal access to biodiversity data in a cloud-computing environment • Plan for long-term sustainability of the national digitization effort Expand participation: partners and data sources
- 4. Seven Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs) • InvertNet: An Integrative Platform for Research on Environmental Change, Species Discovery and Identification (Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois) http://invertnet.org • Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-Trophic Associations (American Museum of Natural History) http://tcn.amnh.org • North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change (University of Wisconsin – Madison) http://symbiota.org/nalichens/index.php http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/index.php • Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography-Creating a PALEONICHES-TCN (University of Kansas) • The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs (New York Botanical Garden) • Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Change (Yale University) • Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological Research (Northern Arizona University) http://hasbrouck.asu.edu/symbiota/portal/index.php
- 5. National Resource (iDigBio), Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs), and Collaborators Currently 7 TCNs with 130 participating institutions
- 6. • iDigBio HUB V1 Portal --12 / 12 / 12 • anticipating real data -- January 2013 –Symbiota Lichens, Bryophytes and Climate Change TCN –VertNet HUB v1
- 7. HUB v1
- 10. • iDigBio API v1 (Releasing 11/9/12) – Adds support for storage of taxon data, people, and organizations – Improved handling of inter-type relationships – Ready to enable write access for a limited set of beta-testers. • iDigBio Portal v1 (Releasing 12/12/12) – Integrated with iDigBio Web authentication. • Slowly expanding interactive features, focus is on backend and process right now • Creation of custom record groups (of people, specimens, or whatever) from searches – Can download groups as CSV, view groups points with coordinates map • Added taxon, people, and organization indexes and searching. • Overall presentation of field names is much more consistent across the portal. HUB v1
- 11. Building the iDigBio Cloud • Cloud-based strategy – Providing useful services/APIs (programmatic and web-based Application Programming Interface) – Federated scalable object storage and information processing – Digitization-oriented virtual appliances – Reliance on standards, proven solutions and sustainable software • Continuous consultation with stakeholders – Surveys, working groups, workshops, person-to-person
- 12. What Makes iDigBio Unique? Ingest all contributed data with emphasis on GUIDs, not only a restricted set of selected data elements Maintain persistent datasets and versioning, allowing new and edited records to be uploaded as needed Ingest textual specimen records, associated still images, video, audio, and other media Ingest linked documents and associated literature, including field notes, ledgers, monographs, related specimen collections, etc. Provide virtual annotation capabilities and track annotations back to the originating collection (provider) Facilitate sharing and integration of data relevant to biodiversity research Provide computational services for biodiversity research
- 14. • Join an existing Working Group • Propose a working group • Apply to become a visiting scholar • Apply to attend a workshop • Propose a workshop • Host/Co-host workshops at your next professional meeting • Contribute your questions to our forums • Encourage your students to contribute to our forums • Encourage students to apply to our workshops • Encourage students to get involved in a working group
- 16. Recent and Ongoing Activities • Assessment of common and effective practices (paper in ZooKeys) • MISC - Minimum information for scientific collections working group • Collaborative georeferencing pilot project at Godfrey Herbarium • DROID - Digitization workflows working groups • Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Specimens workshop • GWG - Georeferencing working group & train-the-trainers workshop • AOCR - OCR/natural language processing working group • Linked data workshop • Series of digitization training workshops • Call for appliances – tool integration • Call for working groups • Cyberinfrastructure working group • Specimen data portal v0 implementation • Server hosting
- 17. o Jan 2013 Field Notes (Smithsonian) o Feb 12 iDigBio Augmenting OCR Working Group 2013 iSchools iConference Panel o Feb 13 - 14 iDigBio Augmenting OCR Hackathon BRIT, Ft Worth TX o March 6-7 Wet Collections Digitization Workshop – KU o April 10-13 ?Workshop at ASB o April 2013 Entomology Digitization Workshop Field Museum o Summer 2013 iDigBio GWG Georeferencing Train the Trainers II o June 17-22 Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections o July 24-Aug 1 Botany 2013 o Sept 2013 Paleo Digitization Workshop (place tbd)
- 18. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement EF-1115210. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Editor's Notes
- #4: Network Integrated Collections Alliance
- #11: services / tools – near future
- #12: iDigBio uses a cloud-based strategy for building its cyberinfrastructure.The strategy is to build a federated scalable object storage and information processing that can be accessed through programmatic and web-based interfaces; always relying on standards, proven solutions and sustainable software that can be packaged in virtual appliances that facilitate the digitization workflow.This process is transparent and with continuous consultation with stakeholders through surveys, working groups, etc.The picture abstracts main components that are being built into the iDigBiocyberinfrastructure, and suffices to say that it is being built having in mind the strategy just described.----------------------If the presenter is asked about the details of the figure, it shows:a) The physical hardware at the bottom layer (“Cloud Nodes”);b) The storage of both text and binary objects (“Bulk Text Storage” and “Binary Object Storage”) on top of physical nodes;c) Various types of customized indexing that accelerates searches of data (“Full-text and Faceted Indexing”, “Geo-spatial and Range Indexing)”;d) The different types of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that will be exposed to the public (“Search API”, “Metadata API”, “Object API”). The APIs allow other applications, especially from other stakeholders, to ingest and retrieve the data in iDigBio in a programmatic fashion.e) The “iDigBio Specimen Portal” provides a web-based user interface that also makes use of the exposed APIs.f) Different types of “Appliances” and “Third Party Consumers” also interact with the exposed APIs with the purpose of facilitating the digitization process by packaging well existing biodiversity tools.g) All components will need to be integrated and managed securely (authentication, authorization, access control, auditing).The names in smaller fonts inside each box (e.g., Apache, Solr) are particular software packages considered for delivering the expected capability.
- #15: how to get involved (join working groups, attend workshops, propose needed working groups / workshops, host or co-host workshops at existing meetings, propose tool integration projects, post your questions to our forums – put our staff and working groups collective knowledge to good use)