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Building Relationships between Images and other Biological Objects using the Morphbank Repository ( www.morphbank.net ) and Morphbank Collaboratory Tools.
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Building Relationships between Images and other Biological Objects using the Morphbank Repository (www.morphbank.net) and Morphbank Collaboratory Tools 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, Department of Computational Sciences, Florida State University
What is Morphbank • Morphbank is an open web repository and collaboratory for biological images primarily serving the specimen-based research community • Started in 1998 by a Swedish-American-Spanish consortium as an open ftp image archive • Centered at the School of Computational Science (SCS), Florida State University, since 2004 • 2005 - 2008 NSF grant (DBI 0446224) to develop the system, in particular for three use cases: • Remote annotation of natural history specimens • Morphological phylogenetics • Paleohistology
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?
Browse and search images based on metadata Alphabetic index of taxon names Taxon hierarchy Single Google-like search box Field-specific search and filtering Security model Private vs. public data (‘unpublished’ and ‘published’) Group access, different roles within the group, user-managed Each user has a ‘privilege taxon’ Reviewer accounts Edit and upload From Web form or batch upload through Excel workbook From new Specify client plug-in User support Curators and help desk Online users manual and FAQ Workshops for users and programmers Morphbank 2.5.5
Morphological Ontology Taxa View Specimen Annotation Publication Collection Locality Morphbank 2.5.5 Morphbank objects External objects Morphbank image
External links http://morphbank.net/Show/?id=80305
http://morphbank.net/Show/?id=142605 Collections: show, share, annotate, view and publish
Image hosting/linking http://morphbank.net/Show/?id=111266 http://www.morphbank.net/?id=111266&imgType=jpeg http://www.hymatol.org/Chalcidkey/ E. Grissell, M. E. Schauff & Mike Gates
Image hosting/linking http://www.hymatol.org/Chalcidkey/ E. Grissell, M. E. Schauff & Mike Gates
Morphbank users addition, correction peer review, validation community consensus Taxon Name Management (2.5.5) Morphbank ITIS cache ITIS+
Morphbank 2.7 - Character State Annotations Import and export Nexus files
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