Slides prepared for the 6th European GBIF nodes meeting in Brussels. At the meeting these slides was replaced by a live online demo of these tools. Topics include citizen science transcription of specimen labels, persistent identifiers and custom collection portals. All slides are CC-by.

1. European
GBIF
Nodes
mee2ng
in
Brussels
8
to
10
April
2014
Slides
prepared
for
the

2. Transcrip2on
of
label
informa2on
Taking
Notes
from
Nature

3. 9
%
29%
45%
8%
9%
Museum
specimens
Vertebrater
Planter
insekter
Invertebrater
Sopp
11
%
47%
26%
6%
10%
Digi-zed
specimens
Vertebrater
Planter
insekter
Invertebrater
Sopp
2%
15%
44%
20%
19%
Number
of
species
in
Norway
(≈42k)
Vertebrater
Planter
insekter
Invertebrater
Sopp
4%
69%
13%
0%
14%
GBIF
(from
the
museum
collec-ons)
Vertebrater
Planter
insekter
Invertebrater
Sopp
Slide
by
Eirik
Rindal
(NHM-­‐UiO)

4. ≈
8,5
mill
specimens
in
Norwegian
collec2ons
of
natural
history
Fungi:
640
000
Vascular
plants:
2,2
mill
Vertebrates:
670
000
Invertebrates:
600
000
Insects:
3,4
mill
Photos:
Karsten
Sund;
slide
by
Eirik
Rindal
(NHM-­‐UiO)
Paleontology:
900
000

5. Digi2zed
specimens
Fungi:
640
000
Vascular
plants:
2,2
mill
Vertebrates:
670
000
Invertebrates:
600
000
Insects:
3,4
mill
Photos:
Karsten
Sund;
slide
by
Eirik
Rindal
(NHM-­‐UiO)
Paleontology:
900
000
?

6. Mass-­‐digi2za2on
at
NHM-­‐UiO
• 3-­‐year
project
– Start
in
2012
(dura2on
2013
to
2015)
– 3
mill
NOK
each
year
(≈365
000
€
/
year)
• NHM-­‐UiO
vascular
plants
(240k
–
280k)
– Photo-­‐imaging
(high
resolu2on)
– QR-­‐barcoded
with
hdp-­‐PURL-­‐UUID
keys
– Registra2on
of
taxon
name
and
country
– Imported
to
MUSIT
DB
and
published
to
GBIF

7. Vascular
plant
herbarium
(175
k
specimens)
Transcrip2on
at:
Imaging
at:

8. 8 8
Foto:
Digitarium
Foto:
NHM-­‐UiO
Packing
of
the
herbarium
in
Oslo,
Norway
Un-­‐packing
of
the
herbarium
in
Joensuu,
Finland

9. 9

10. Status
in
March
2014:
• Cost
for
each
specimen:
– Tradi2onal
ca
40-­‐80
NOK
– Mass-­‐dig.
17,5
NOK
• NHM-­‐UiO
vascular
plants
(240k
–
280k)
• The
first
175k
specimens
are
now
ready
• Images:
ca
15
terra
byte
• 50k
specimens
are
transcribed
(30%)
– Taxon
and
country

11. Catalog
number:
O-­‐L-­‐000014,
hdp://purl.org/nhmuio/id/41d9cbb4-­‐4590-­‐4265-­‐8079-­‐ca44d46d27c3
11

12. hdp://purl.org/nhmuio/id/d91e8253-­‐0ac1-­‐4681-­‐ac69-­‐e50070af86a2
12

13. Notes
from
Nature

14. • Find
the
label
and
drag
a
box
around
it.
• Fill
in
label
informa2on
using
the
provided
drop-­‐down
menu
or
free
text
input.
• Each
label
is
transcribed
by
three
different
ci2zen
scien2sts
to
evaluate
accuracy.
• NHM
UiO
has
launched
a
prototype
Norwegian
transcrip2on
portal,
based
on
the
NfN.

15. hdp://nhm2.uio.no/dugnad/transcribe

16. hdp://nhm2.uio.no/dugnad/transcribe

17. hdp://nhm2.uio.no/dugnad/transcribe

19. The
purpose
of
iden2fiers
…is
to
name
things,
making
it
possible
to
refer
to
them.
What
is
an
iden2fier:
“Each
iden2fier
refers
to
one
and
only
one
thing”
(Coyle
2006).
“An
associa&on
between
a
string
and
a
thing”
(Kunze
2003).
“A
stated
associa&on
between
a
symbol
and
a
thing;
that
the
symbol
may
be
used
to
unambiguously
refer
to
the
thing
within
a
given
context”
(Campbell
2007).
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20. UUID
QR
codes
for
museum
objects
at
NHM-­‐UiO
provides:
• Machine-­‐readable
iden-fiers.
• Allows
for
new
and
efficient
workflows
for
collec2on
management.
• Deployment
for
stable
iden-fiers
appropriate
for
data-­‐basing.
20

21. hdp
–
PURL
–
UUID
hdp://purl.org/nhmuio/id/41d9cbb4-­‐4590-­‐4265-­‐8079-­‐ca44d46d27c3

22. hdp://purl.org/nhmuio/id/UUID
à
hdp://gbif.no/resolver/UUID

24. Custom
collec2on
portals
Slide
by
David
Remsen
(2011)

25. Artskart
UiT
UiB
S&L
Darwin
Core
Archive
Collec2ons
and
data
sets
published
from
the
data
owner
as
one
single
Darwin
Core
archive
(DwC-­‐A).
Different
data
types
from
the
same
DwC-­‐
A
can
be
included
to
different
data
portals.
GBIF
Portal
Opportunities with Darwin Core:
Data portal for
institute, region,
or theme?
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31. GBIF
portal:
13,3
million
occurrences
are
located
in
Norway.
Published
from
30
countries
worldwide.

32. GBIF
portal:
12,5
million
occurrences
published
form
Norwegian
ins2tutes.
Covering
180
countries
worldwide.

33. Danmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Iceland
Oct
2013
Data
set
Occurences
Denmark
45
9
311
741
Finland
57
14
666
474
Iceland
4
458
705
Norway
85
12
531
207
Sweden
47
43
374
550
Status
Nordic
GBIF
data
sets
(data
hosted
by…)
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34. Node
Personnel
Dag
Endresen,
Node
Manager
Chris2an
Svindseth,
Database
manager
Fridtjof
Mehlum,
Research
Director
Einar
Timdal,
Associate
Professor
Vegar
Bakkestuen,
Senior
Scien2st
Geir
Søli,
Associate
Professor
Wouter
Koch,
Artsdatabanken
Nils
Valland,
Artsdatabanken
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