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Moving to Fully Distributed, Interoperable Repositories for Biodiversity Images and Information

Moving to Fully Distributed, Interoperable Repositories for Biodiversity Images and Information.

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Moving to Fully Distributed, Interoperable Repositories for Biodiversity Images and Information

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  1. Moving to Fully Distributed, Interoperable Repositories for Biodiversity Images and Information SELTMANN2, Katja; PRIETO-MARQUEZ1,*, Albert; RONQUIST2, Fredrik; RICCARDI3, Gregory A.; DEANS2, Andy; JAMMIGUMPULA2, Neelima; MAST1, Austin; WINNER2, Steve; MANEVA-JAKIMOSKA2, Karolina; PAUL2, Debbie; BLANCO2, Wilfredo; GAITROS4, David; ERICKSON1, Gregory M.; and GAITROS2, Cynthia 1Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1100, USA. 2School of Computational Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4120, USA. 3College of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530, USA. 4Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530, USA Morphbank Team, School of Computational Sciences, Florida State University

  2. Overview • Long term goals • Update on Morphbank information interchange • Morphbank as an image repository, what’s the future? • Moving to a fully distributed image repository for Morphbank • Creating a highly reliable Internet repository • Caching images for dynamic image management • Distributing the Morphbank metadata • Moving to fully interoperable image repositories • Sharing images between repositories • Sharing metadata between repositories • Searching across repositories • What can we do to make this move?

  3. Long-Term Goals • Fully distributed image repository • The network is the repository: nobody/everybody owns the repository • Cheap: commodity systems for storage • Scalability: more users - more storage space • Long-term archiving, minimum downtime, fast access: guaranteed by redundancy • Coordinated international open source development of collaboratory software • Free for all - best way to help developing countries • Resources exist but how coordinate and fund distributed open source development of sophisticated software? • Should TDWG get involved? Separate non-profit organization?

  4. Interaction through Web Services

  5. Web Services XML and RDF

  6. OCR to Facilitate Specimen Metadata Entry

  7. Reliable Data Repository • People ask, “How much do you charge and how long will you keep my images? • Last year, Riccardi said, “Forever, or until June 30, 2008, whichever comes first.” • Server system at Morphbank to support claim • UPS, 24 hour on-call system administrators, high-bandwidth network • New strategy is evolving to give more satisfying answer • “As long as people find it useful.” • We need low cost, reliable, shared management • Off-the-shelf hardware • Open source software • Resources provided by contributors at low cost

  8. Morphbank Server Browser request doc Database Web Server img Image File Store

  9. Morphbank Mirror Server Browser Morphbank request doc Database Web Server img Image File Store Mirror management Mirror Web Server Image File Store

  10. Morphbank Reliability Browser Morphbank request doc Database Web Server img Image File Store Mirror Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Web Server Image File Store Image File Store Image File Store Image File Store Image File Store

  11. Morphbank Caching Server Browser Morphbank request doc Database Web Server img Image File Store img Mirror management Mirror Web Server Image File Store

  12. Morphbank Distribution Browser Morphbank request doc Database Database Web Server Web Server request Active searching Shared metadata Image File Store Image File Store doc Morphbank

  13. Interoperability with Caching Browser Morphbank request doc Database Database Web Server Web Server request doc Image File Store Image File Store Shared Metadata NBII

  14. Full Interoperability Browser Morphbank request doc Database Database Web Server Web Server request doc Image File Store Image File Store Active searching NBII

  15. Summary • Morphbank mirror • You can participate • Computer with disk, network, Apache, ftp • Need some technical improvements • Will occur outside the biodiversity informatics community • Need people to agree to share • Provide resources • Make improvements to information process • Workshops at FSU • Interoperability for images and metadata – Fall 07 • Developer interaction – Spring 08 • Integrate clients and services on top of the morphbank data model

  16. Acknowledgments • National Science Foundation - Biological Databases and Informatics (BDI) Program (Grant DBI-0446224) for Morphbank - PEET and DDIG Programs (DEB-041544081 and DEB-0328922) for mx • Florida State University: - School of Computational Science - College of Information - Department of Computer Science - Department of Biological Science - Department of Mathematics • National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) • Swedish Research Council • Uppsala University, Sweden • Morphbank biologists and collaborators: AToL, PEET, PBI, MX, HERBIS, CBG,… • TDWG supporters

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