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Biodiversity Informatics at the Natural History Museum

Biodiversity Informatics at the Natural History Museum. Ed Baker Terrestrial Invertebrates, Department of Life Sciences & NHM Informatics Initiative. Science as a Slow Cooker. Only the surface visible Lid kept on for extended periods of time Uses cheap cuts of raggy meat

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Biodiversity Informatics at the Natural History Museum

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  1. Biodiversity Informatics at the Natural History Museum Ed Baker Terrestrial Invertebrates, Department of Life Sciences & NHM Informatics Initiative

  2. Science as a Slow Cooker • Only the surface visible • Lid kept on for extended periods of time • Uses cheap cuts of raggy meat • Ingredient lose their nutritional value • Children at risk due to high temperatures http://ispiders.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/realtime-web.html

  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_cooker

  4. We like data • 70 million+ specimens collected over 400 years • 350,00+ books • ??? Unpublished datasets in archive, notebooks, computes • ??? In the minds of staff

  5. How do we provide access? • Digitisation of specimens and associated data • Scanning and transcribing books, journals, archives • Providing tools for managing the data life cycle • Changing the way we publish: data publication

  6. Flowing Data Collection Curation Use Publication

  7. Flowing Data Collection Curation Sits in desk drawer or on a hard drive until…. Somebody retires Somebody dies Project is cancelled

  8. Flowing Data Collection Curation Use Data Publication Publication Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use

  9. Flowing Data: from collection to reuse Collection Curation Use Data Publication Publication Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use

  10. Collection Citizen Science Automated identification and monitoring Traditional taxonomic sources

  11. Flowing Data: from collection to reuse Curation Use Data Publication Publication Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use

  12. Curation • Websites for communities to publish and curate: • Taxonomy / nomenclature • Bibliographies • Specimen information • Character matricies

  13. Flowing Data: from collection to reuse Use Data Publication Publication Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use

  14. Use: Oboe

  15. Use: Oboe

  16. Flowing Data: from collection to reuse Data Publication Publication Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use

  17. Publication (Data) • Datasets • Single species descriptions • Checklists • Software

  18. Flowing Data: from collection to reuse Publication Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use

  19. Publication (Research) • Traditional research • Systematic zoology • Phylogeny • Biogeography

  20. Flowing Data: from collection to reuse Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use

  21. The Problem of Scale • Data is being generated by tens of thousands of researchers, in thousands of institutions • Hard to find what you need • Hard to know if what you need actually exists • Impossible to go through researcher by researcher

  22. NHM Data Portal • Aggregator for NHM science data • Visualisation tools for datasets • Allows export of NHM data for re-use

  23. The Informatics Landscape >18K specimen records (local small scale coverage) >276M specimen records (worldwide coverage)

  24. The Informatics Landscape A webpage for every species Aggregate specimen and observation data globally

  25. Wikimedianin Residence • Make NHM content available under open licenses for use on Wikimedia projects (and elsewhere) • Reach of Wikipedia: BBC, Encyclopedia of Life • Wikisource: Transcription and translation crowd-sourcing

  26. Flowing Data: from collection to reuse ?

  27. "Everybody makes mistakes. And if you don't expose your raw data, nobody will find your mistakes." Jean-Claude Bradley http://bit.ly/146ugIv

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