Global Names Architecture - Remsen
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The document summarizes a meeting about the Global Names Architecture (GNA) in Paris, France. It discusses developing common standards and services to enable global discovery of taxonomic and nomenclatural resources. This includes creating a Global Names Index and registry to reconcile names across resources and promote sharing data in consistent, integrated ways. The Integrated Publishing Toolkit and Darwin Core Archives are proposed as part of the architecture to publish and share species checklists and metadata.
Global Names Architecture - Remsen
- 1. GNA Meeting, Paris France Global Names Architecture Meeting David Remsen Senior Programme Officer Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 2011
- 3. From T.E. Glover, The Fishes of Southwestern Japan, c.1870
- 4. Orthography The long-finned squid, Loligo pealeii (Laseur)
- 5. Agalinus paupercula borealis Agalinus pauperculum borealis Agalinis paupercula var. Borealis Agalinus pauperculum var. borealis Agalinus paupercula var. borealis Agalinus paupercula var. borealis Pennell Agalinus paupercula Britton var. borealis Pennell Agalinus paupercula (Gray) Britt. var. borealis Pennell Agalinis paupercula (A.Gray) Britton var. borealis Pennell Agalinus paupercula (Gray) Britton var. borealis (Pennell) Zenkert 1934 Orthography Reconciling different forms of the same name
- 6. Nomenclature The Bluefish, Temnodon saltator
- 7. Taxonomy P. carinii sec 1 P. carinii sec 2 P. jiroveci
- 8. With access to authority information Higher Taxonomy
- 9. Without authority information Higher Taxonomy
- 10. Issues that are not unique Particularly in federated systems
- 11. Taxonomic Data Sources Classification Taxonomic Status Heterotypic Synonymy Taxon Identifiers Nomenclatural Data Sources Orthography Nomenclatural Status Objective Synonymy Nomenclatural Identifiers Addressed by…
- 12. Catalog of Life Index Fungorum Species Fungorum Tropicos LepIndex GRIN DSMZ Euzeby index IPNI ITIS Euro + Med Plantbase Index Nominum Diptorum Orthoptera Species File The Plant List NCBI Taxonomy World Register of Marine Species Angiosperm Phylogeny Group list Solanaceae Source Amphibian Species World World Spider Catalogue AlgaeBase Index Nominum Algarum Index Nominum Genericorum ZooBank ERMS IUCN RedList Mammal Species of World Catalog of Fishes FishBase Catalog of Life Index Animalium ION Nomenclator Zoologicus Fauna Europaea IRMNG NZOR Coleorrhyncha Species File A lot of this…
- 13. Common Discovery Network Documentation (metadata) model Data Sharing Format Data Sharing tools Consensus Web Service methods Few resolvable identifers No common resolution output Little Integration Not a lot of this
- 14. “ All accumulated information of a species is tied to a scientific name, a name that serves as a link between what has been learned in the past and what we today add to the body of knowledge.” (nearly) All names matter
- 15. Global discovery of nomenclature and taxonomic resources Common access to these resources Reconcile names labeling data and information to nomenclature and taxa Embedded services that add value to these resources We need
- 16. uBio
- 17. An index of all names used with biodiversity information reconciled to authoritative nomenclators
- 18. An index of taxon resources and species checklists
- 20. Nice Idea No Architecture
- 21. Without an architecture Ad-hoc Requires personal networking No clear fit to a larger picture
- 22. Common approach to common tasks
- 23. Architecture Global Registry for resource discovery Common and documented data standards Metadata Data Vocabularies Data Sharing tools Common web service methods Resolvable identifers (names/taxa)`
- 24. Architecture Enable global discovery of taxonomic and nomenclatural resources Derivative products (regional and thematic species checklists) Enable resources to be shared in a consistent manner Promote development of new derived products
- 26. Integrated Publishing Toolkit Supports Publication of Species Checklists (sensu lato) Supports EML as resource metadata format Darwin Core Archive as output formats Possible to add ISO metadata output TCS data output – lossy relative to source data Integrated Publishing Toolkit 2.0
- 27. Lowered the technical barriers to data publishing Publishing with spreadsheets Publishing via Email Publishing with no installed tools Publishing with no tools at all
- 29. Lots of documentation > 2500 downloads English/French/Spanish
- 31. Promote Development of New Derived Products
- 32. GBIF Involved but not integrated Global Names Index Global Name Usage Bank Supported by what has been presented
- 33. Checklist Bank for GBIF network
- 34. Checklist Bank Status: Dev version in place. Integration with GBIF data portal 2011 http://ecat-dev.gbif.org/
- 35. i4Life
- 36. Common platform for multiple initiatives to discover and exchange taxonomic and nomenclatural information New derived products that improve efficiency and utility of taxonomic process Embed taxonomy within larger biodiversity informatics challenges Vision
Editor's Notes
- #4: I was digitising resources like this gem – beautiful plates and lots of nice metadata to index them with. The only problem was that the only really useful biological metadata was the scientific name that labeled each picture. Had I only known what I was getting into.
- #5: This is another early digitisation project. A seminal work. Only the name is spelled incorrectly or at least incorrectly according to todays spelling. I cant change the spelling in the source so what can I do about it? At the time I was short on ideas.
- #6: Pictures and specimens and gene sequences are labelled with names like this. Eventually I learned these are all different forms of the same name. For various reasons, however, different sources often prefer to retain their versions of the name.
- #7: This paper contains historic catch and distribution data. But the name represents a combination that is no longer in use. How can we retrieve historic information on species where the name has changed from what is in use today?
- #8: In 1999, the fungus responsible for causing one of the major causes of death in people with HIV was renamed, following a split of the species. This requires those who work on this disease to be aware of the new name in order to access information related to the species.
- #9: Here is a map showing a distribution of data related to hummingbirds. It is assembled because we have a taxonomic authority source that specifies all the names of the species within the hummingbird family. As a result the map is an accurate representation (aside from some stray data with clear geospatial issues).
- #10: Without access to sufficient authoritative taxonomic data, we have been forced to rely on less-accurate classification data originating in occurrence datasets. These datasets often contain errors such as illustrated here where a European bird species was mistakenly placed in the hummingbird family.
- #30: This outreach extends to a new suite of data publishing guides and tools that provide details on data formats, checklist metadata, and checklist publishing tools.
- #31: In 2011 the number of taxonomic authority files published through the network has doubled thanks to promotional efforts within the GBIF network and partnerships that include other taxonomic initiatives.
- #35: in use by ALA/ . Consultation through the GNA. Soliciting feedback about the APIs. Require discussion with community about attribution? Something about it being the component in the evolved portal that will provide all taxonomic services, including means to organise content
- #36: in use by ALA/ . Consultation through the GNA. Soliciting feedback about the APIs. Require discussion with community about attribution? Something about it being the component in the evolved portal that will provide all taxonomic services, including means to organise content