The EDIT Partnership

2. The EDIT Partnership

3. The EDIT Partnership • Network of 25 taxonomic institutions with the aim to integrate research and improve the production of knowledge • Initiated by the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) • Funded by the European Commission (March 2006 – February 2011) • Coordinated by the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris)

4. The EDIT Partnership Partners from 13 Countries

5. EDIT Scope • 1. Coordination and Management • Financial, Public relations, Gender Action Plan ... • 2. Integrating Experts and Expertise • Experts database, Joint Research Grants, ... • 3. Infrastructure Basis • Coordination with other initiatives, Barcoding, Coordinating collections, European Checklists=> Yde de Jong & al.: A Pan-European Species-Directories Infrastructure (PESI)[Poster 19.15] • 4. Coordinating Research

6. EDIT Scope 2 • 8. Training and Public Awareness • Survey of European training resources in taxonomy; EDIT Summerschool; Expert-in-Training Programme • 7. Taxonomy for Conservation • Building task forces for Biodiversity Inventories: Mercantour/Alpi Marittime (France/Italy), Gemer (Slovakia), and Udzungwe mountains (Tanzania), ... • 6. Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy • Exemplar groups, Scratchpads => Simon Rycroft & al.: Small pieces loosely joined: Building scientific web communities with Scratchpads [Presentation]

7. 5. Platform for Cybertaxonomy • Aims: 1. “Integrating” the Informatics Departments 2. Creating a software environment for taxonomists • Resources • In 2008: 14 developers, 2 support personnel,  12 full time positions+ institutional personnel • Development jobs • Software specification, development, documentation, and interfacing

8. EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy The platform is • a collection of services and tools, and interfaces and transformation tools • aimed at interoperability with existing developments and projects • centred on a Common Data Model and a Java open source programming library => Andreas Müller & al.: EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy – An Overview[Presentation 12.2]

9. EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy Timeline (see next slide)

10. Timelines and Sustainability • CATE Project • PESI Project • CATE II ? 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Concept development and teambuilding Technology evaluation Development • First products • Platform v. 2 • Platform v. 1 • Platform v. 3 Institutional support ...................................... • LifeWatch ?

11. EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy Andreas Kohlbecker

12. EDIT Data Portal • Publishes results • Search function • Optimized taxonomic tree browser • Multiple opinions • Future versions with • Annotations / notes • Images • Common names => Andreas Kohlbecker & al.: EDIT Data Portal – A flexible publishing tool for biodiversity information networks[Demo 18.5]

13. EDIT Geo-Platform => Bart Meganck & al.: The roots and branchesof the GeoPlatform Tree [Poster 19.22, 19.23]

14. EDIT Geo-Platform: mapViewer => Pere Roca Ristol & al.: EDIT mapViewer: a Geographic Web Application for Taxonomists [Poster 19.34]

15. Aim: interoperability of taxonomic tools SDD import/export functionalities for the Common Data Model Problems with dialects! Descriptive tool interoperability => Hélène Fradin & al.: Taxonomic data exchange facilities for descriptive tools[Poster 19.11]

16. Specimen & Observation Explorer • Access to GBIF data for taxonomists • Generic thesaurus interface for query expansion • Multilingual • Based on BioCASE/SYNTHEYS => Patricia Kelbert & al.: The new EDIT Specimen and observation explorer for taxonomists [Demo 18.4] search.biocase.org/edit

17. Virtual TAxonomic Library ViTaL => Julius Welby & al. http://taxonlib.org/: Source: Jane Smith

18. The EDIT Taxonomic Editor => Pepe Ciardelli & al.: Introducing the EDIT Desktop Taxonomic Editor [Demo 18.4] (Corrected slide)

19. Thank You!