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Presented at Scripting Life: the science behind ViBRANT, at the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, France on 20th and 21st January 2011.
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Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Setting the Scene for ViBRANT
Vince SmithNatural History Museum, London
vince@vsmith.info
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Outline
• Brief workpackage overviews
• Values / philosophy
• Outreach & communication Twitter
VBRANT.EU forum
Reporting deliverables
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
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WP1: Project managementNHM with HCMR, RBINS, UOXF, UvA, OU, PENSOFT
• Strategic Board
• Management Committee
• Workpackage leaders
• Project Partners
NETWORKING
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WP3: Training, outreach & community supportRBINS with VU, NHM, UNITS
• Training (RBINS / NHM) Training courses & online user support
• User study (VU) Sociological study of user needs & user metrics
• Outreach (RBINS / UNITS) Promotion activities & bug / feature request management
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WP4: StandardisationUvA with JKI, PENSOFT, GBIF, BGBM
• Controlled vocabularies / ontologies (GBIF / JKI) Standardised & internationalised vocabularies
• Scratchpad common access point (BGBM) Search portal across all Scratchpad sites
• Standards control (UvA / BGBM / PENSOFT) API service enhancements & service catalogue
• Liaise with LifeWatch (UvA) Develop the LifeWatch service centre
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WP8: Ecol. & conservation data mobalisationHCMR with MfN, Vizz, PENSOFT, GBIF
• Citizen science engagement (HCMR / PENSOFT) Scratchpad citizen science modules
• GBIF data annotation (GBIF) Tool to annotate observations from GBIF
• Visualisation tools (Vizz) Improved vis. of Scratchpad data plus mobile apps.
• Terrestrial data logging (MfN) Data logging tool
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WP5: Data servicesUOXF with UPMC, JKI, Vizz, UdIR
• Phylogenetic analysis (UOXF) Tree building service integration
• Modeling & biodiversity metrics (UOXF / Vizz) Niche modeling of spp. distributions
• Key construction (UPMC / UdIR) Integration of Xper2 as a service
• Matrix data editing (JKI) Improving the matrix editor
SERVICE
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WP6: Scholarly publishingPENSOFT with NHM
• XML Publication workflows (PENSOFT / NHM) Scholarly publishing from a Scratchpad to Zookeys & Phytokeys
• Biodiversity data publishing (PENSOFT) “Publishing data” & pushing this outside ViBRANT
PD
FH
TM
LX
ML
SERVICE
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WP2: Technical architectureNHM with BGBM
• Distributed Scratchpad hosting (NHM / BGBM) Mirroring & failover
• Software module integration (NHM) Develop test & integrate consortium modules
• Sustainability plan (NHM) Costing & modeling ViBRANT sustainability options
RESEARCH
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WP7: Biodiversity literature accessOU with KIT, PENSOFT, NHM
• Community bibliography (OU) Papers tagged with taxon names
• Biodiversity lit. markup (KIT / OU / PENSOFT / NHM) sub-article level access to taxonomic literature
• Literature search (OU) Datamining biodiversity literature
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Values / Philosophy
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
Why ViBRANT is (a bit) different
• Inclusiveness• Open Access• Prioritization• Problem solving• Scalability
• Simplicity • Stakeholder ownership• Standardization• Sustainability• Transparency
• Agility• Democratisation• Engagement• Equity• Flexibility
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Outreach & communicationThe need to talk - all feedback is good
• “Build it & they will come” doesn’t always work
“…the field [of biodiversity informatics] appears to be growing in a void of overarching, motivating questions, effectively making it a set of technologies in search of questions to address.”
Peterson et al. The big questions for biodiversity informatics.Systematics and Biodiversity. 2010
• We need to promote what we do via:• Help & support systems
• Training courses
• Sociological research & feedback
• Presentations, papers, blogs
• Promotional materials
• Representation on http://vbrant.eu
• Trifold-leaflets for each group of activities
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ViBRANT Trifold Promotional Leaflets
Materials needed ASAP
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Communication - Twitter140 characters or less
• Create an account in your name• “Tweet” what you are doing• Include @vbrant in your tweet• Include #wp[1-8] for your workpkg. • Tweet often!• Download an app.
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Communication - VBRANT.EUE-Mail integration in the forum
• http://vbrant.eu/forum• Each has its own e-mail address• Send via your registered e-mail address• Message attachments also sent, archived & backed up
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Reporting deliverables & milestonesCompleted via http://vbrant.eu/deadlines
• Find your deliverable or milestone
• Edit the record, adding links & reports• See what you are responsible for
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