The document discusses the potential features and capabilities of a future digital flora, fauna, and mycota resource. It suggests that it should allow users to provide and harvest marked up content, integrate with other knowledge, allow versioning and tracking changes, hold conflicting opinions, and continually grow in an open and accessible way through crowd-sourced semantic enrichment. Usage statistics are provided for the existing Biodiversity Heritage Library, including over 390,000 views and 1,200 data sets contributed.
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1. What should a flora/fauna/mycota
of the future be able to do for me?
William Ulate
BHL Technical Director
Global BHL Coordinator
Berlin, Germany
May 21, 2013
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10. Scientific Name Extraction
• TaxonFinder algorithm in production since
2008
– More than 100 million candidate name strings
– More than 1.5 million unique, verified names
– Available through UI, APIs, Data Exports & Internet
Archive
• New collaboration with Global Names
– Improved algorithm, better precision & recall
– More data with TaxonFinder and Neti Neti!
11. For me a future Flora/Fauna/Mycota should…
allow me to provide and harvest
marked up content with names
of people & organizations, places, taxa,
specimens, illustrations, coordinates,
citations, tables of context and indexes.
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14. Crowdsource Markup
Display text Species Profile Model category
General/summary TaxonBiology
Geographic range Distribution
Habitat Habitat
Food sources and feeding behavior TrophicStrategy
Physical description (general) Description
Physical description (detailed morphology) DiagnosticDescription
15. For me a future Flora/Fauna/Mycota should…
be digital, openly and freely accessible,
marked up and mark-able by users,
linked and registered in
a Common Framework that allows
for gradual crowd-sourced incremental
semantic enrichment with proper attribution
21. For me a future Flora/Fauna/Mycota should…
be easy to integrate with other knowledge,
allow versioning and track changes,
hold and show conflicting opinions
Independent of format, mobile enabled &
be continually growing.
22. Thank you
William Ulate
Global BHL Project Manager / Technical Director
Missouri Botanical Garden
william.ulate@mobot.org
Skype: william_ulate_r
Notas del editor
For the meeting on Wednesday on legacy literature, we would like to ask you to give a brief (5-10min) outline of what your plans are with BHL, and especially your move into content. This would be helpful for a more informed following discussion.
ExtensiveAiming for a critical mass of biodiversity literatureGlobalOriginating in the US and UK, BHL now has nodes in Europe, China, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, and AfricaOpen Data is freely available for viewing, downloading, and re-use
On legacy literature, what your plans are with BHL, and especially your move into content?
Mention Neti Neti
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On legacy literature, what your plans are with BHL, and especially your move into content?GrowthMore Global ContentTaxon NamesArticle MetadataMicrocitations and COiNSAPIZoobankOCR improvements through GamingCrowdsource MarkupWFO?
Natural history illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library seem to leap across boundaries while being catalogued, emerging simultaneously as history, science and art. As historic documents, they paint a vibrant picture of the first time European scientists and explorers encountered exotic plants and animals in the 17th and 18th centuries, drawn by some of the finest illustrators of the world. Also, as biodiversity records, they provide valuable documentation of when, where, and who first observed a species, and some of them are our only surviving representations of extinct species. Finally, as aesthetic elements, they communicate human emotions and other values toward nature by exemplifying the mimesis in art and providing a vivid expression of human creativity and imagination.This year, the Missouri Botanical Garden received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a project called The Art of Life: Data Mining and Crowdsourcing the Identification and Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
The authors have worked on the development of an effective metadata schema for such natural history illustrations, but instead of developing yet another schema from scratch, they have identified existing schemas that meet the needs of the project and integrated a solution that combines the best in biodiversity informatics and image curation standards and best practices. This schema needs to support three main objectives: (1) to enable the discovery, description and use of the identified images by artists, biologists, humanities scholars, and educators; (2) to make BHL’s metadata and images available to other platforms; and (3) to import crowdsourced metadata generated in other platforms back into BHL..A preliminary schema version will be presented to the TDWG community, explaining how we addressed metadata challenges specific to biodiversity data, in order to obtain feedback on the final version.