The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information broker in name infrastructures

1. The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy as an information brokerin name infrastructures Andreas Kohlbecker1, Yde de Jong2, Cherian Mathew1, Lorna Morris1, Andreas Müller1, Anton Güntsch1, Walter Berendsohn1 1Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Department of Research and Biodiversity Informatics 2Universiteit of Finland (Joensuu) & Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels)

2. The next 12 minutes Quick overview on the Edit Platform for Cybertaxonomy The Edit Platform as an information broker in selected projects PESI, the Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure ViBRANT i4Life and BioVeL Q & A

3. EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy was initiated in the EU 6thFramework project EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy) An open platform of loosely coupled components Supports the full taxonomic workflow (data acquisition to publication) Support for individual as well as team work Improve and assure re-usability of data An info broker to integrate, pipeline and validate external data

4. A birds view on the plaform components

5. An Information broker External services REST Services DwC-A Darwin Core Archive Integrity Check( Validation ) Harvesting ABCD OAI-PMH Import / Export Specimens & Observations SDD CSV Descriptive data Custom imports

6. PESI Index Fungorum Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure Taxonomically integrates and secures the main pan-European species checklists • enable correct use of species names and their classification • more accurately manage information on animals and plants, ... Plants Marine organisms Animals Fungi First all-taxa inventory for European species

7. PESI - Technological platform CDM-Store PESI Data Warehouse PESI Portal Import Checklists:

8. PESI - Quality control mechanisms ChecklistMaintainer CDM-Store PESI Data Warehouse PESI Portal Import Integrity Checker Report back integrity problems

9. ViBRANT : Interoperability of platforms ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity NHM, London A framework for managing biodiversity information on the Web BGBM, Berlin A scalable data publish- ing framework with flexible data models biowikifarm JKI, Berlin UPMC, Paris

10. ViBRANT name search index ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity EDIT Platform as a name search index & portal for exploring all Scratchpads data A single point of entry to all Scratchpad data

11. ViBRANT name search index DwC-A REST Serviceswith humane frontend statistics search scientific name search full text Link back to source page

12. An information broaker for ViBRANT DwC-A CSV XSLT XML REST Serviceswith humane frontend Wiki-Makup statistics search scientific name search full text SDD biowikifarm

13. Create a Virtual Research Community. gather and analyse data for digital experiments: a virtual e-laboratory Interlink and harmonise the taxonomic catalogues of six major Global biodiversity programmes with the Catalogue of Life workflows Taxonomic backbone Name Catalogue RESTservices(mimics GBIF Name Services)

14. A new service layer for the Catalogue of Life Scientific workflow environments(Taverna & Kepler) DwC-A Name CatalogueREST Services cyclicallyrefreshed More information related to a name: rank, citation, status scientific name information . scientific names: name identifiers, taxon identifiers, etc. ID scientific name search & fuzzy search streamlined, well documented and easy-to-use services information related to a taxon: classification, synonymy, etc. taxon information

15. Time for Q & A & Links EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy http://cybertaxonomy.eu/ Vibrant http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/vibrant_index/search/vibrant_names.html http://species-id.net/wiki/ PESI http://www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi/ i4Life & BioVel http://www.i4life.eu/ http://www.biovel.eu/