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OpenUp! - Discovering Natural History as a Part of Europe´s Cultural Heritage Petra Böttinger, Alexa Michel, Walter G. Berendsohn Botanic Garden & Botanical
OpenUp! - Discovering Natural History as a Part of Europes
Cultural Heritage Petra Bttinger, Alexa Michel, Walter G.
Berendsohn Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem,
Germany open-up.eu
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Background open-up.eu Multimedia objects from the natural
history domain as part of the European Cultural Heritage are still
dramatically underrepresented in public awareness
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Connecting the cultural and the natural history domains is the
central idea behind OpenUp! (Opening up Europes natural history
heritage to EUROPEANA). Tapestry called Krokus, B. Rendahl, 1976.
Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden. www.europeana.eu Herbarium
specimen Crocus vernus L., BGBM Collection, Berlin. open-up.eu
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Project Details open-up.eu OpenUp! is a 3-year project (03.2011
- 02.2014) co-funded by the European Commission and several
European natural history collections. It is an initiative of CETAF,
the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities, together with
several European GBIF Nodes.
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Europeana A cross-domain portal to Europes cultural and
scientific heritage. To-date 15 million digital images, text and
sound files, and videos with a focus on cultural history. 1500
institutions, currently 29 funded projects Natural history:
BHL-Europe, Natural Europe, OpenUp! Bronze Cat Coffin. The Oriental
Museum, University of Durham, Durham, UK. www.europeana.eu
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OpenUp! Task 1: Bringing Content to Europeana open-up.eu
OpenUp! Is taking advantage of the established infrastructures in
the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) OpenUp! is
making multimedia content in the BioCASE network accessible to
EUROPEANA Committed to serve at least 1.1 million objects by the
end of the project (Feb. 2014). All content will automatically be
served to GBIF when mobilised by OpenUp.
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About GBIF open-up.eu Open access Quality: access to clean data
Quantity: over 300 mio indexed records
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GBIF Data Portal
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About BioCASE open-up.eu
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BioCASE Portal
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Global Context of OpenUp! open-up.eu
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For Europeana, OpenUp! will provide open-up.eu a single access
point to distributed non-bibliographic multimedia content in the
natural history domain validation mechanisms to ensure compliance
with EUROPEANA standards. sustained item-level access by
integration with existing networks in the domain (i.e. GBIF,
BioCASE and CETAF). metadata enrichment by means of multilingual
metadata vocabularies and thesauri for natural history data (e.g.
names) to enhance cross-linking of Europeana content. a mechanism
to extend participation in content provision
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Content made available for EUROPEANA in numbers open-up.eu High
quality object images881 438 Natural history artwork119 100 Animal
sound files21 350 Movies1 200 Other38 000 Total, at least1 061
088
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Bot. Content: e.g. Herbaria, Drawings J. Holstein et al.
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Accesibility open-up.eu Stage 0: Only in real world (paper
catalogues, just stacks), only meta information available on the
web Stage 1:Stage 2: Online catalogue Digitalization of
specimen
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herbarium specimen providing (meta) data on physical object
first description/observation geographical location time of
collection collecting person annotations barcode
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FILM MIT OPILIACEAE
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herbarium specimen search in Europeana
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OpenUp! Task 2: technical implementation - provide and support
technical standards open-up.eu A drawer with tropical butterflies
collected by Alfred Russel Wallace (Natural History Museum, London)
Provision of a framework for distributed content from local
databases by a constantly updated aggregator meta-database,
accessible through the OAI-PMH Interface (Open Archives Initiative
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)
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Data processing steps in the mobilisation of multimedia content
from natural history institutions for Europeana open-up.eu
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Enhancing the Metadata open-up.eu OpenUp! implements data
quality and enrichment measures to achieve a high level of
completeness and correctness of metadata associated with the
multimedia objects. A dedicated Data Quality Toolkit integrates a
number of quality services, including comprehensive scientific name
catalogues for botany and zoology. It also validates information on
taxonomy, geography, language, and type of multimedia.
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Enhancing the Metadata means open-up.eu ABCD specimen data
records contain many elements that are useful for semantic linking
Multicultural context Enhance scientific names by multilingual
common names Enhance names with synonyms (using same services as
data quality toolkit)
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Extending the Network open-up.eu OpenUp! is actively promoting
participation beyond the initial consortium Concerted Helpdesk
activity Outreach and mobilisation activities, supported by
participating GBIF Nodes Dissemination activities to reach target
groups (scientific community, broader public, ) New providers will
be new GBIF/BioCASE providers The type specimen of a goliath beetle
Goliathus atlas Nickerl, 1887 deposited in the collections of the
National Museum, Prague, and its original type labels
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Data Access Rights In OpenUp!, BioCASE and GBIF open-up.eu Red
scheelite crystal on quartz gangue, lecoality Pbram Bezov Hory,
central Bohemia, Czech Republic. Collection of National museum
Prague. Open access to relevant metadata is the base for semantic
linking of scientific content with all other domains
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Data Access Rights In OpenUp! access to metadata is based on CC
by license (EU Grant Agreement 270890) open-up.eu IPR issues
related to the project outcome including IPR clearing methods for
content and tools (output) All specialised software tools that will
be required to operate the access system are or will be available
under open source licenses and on public websites: GBIF makes its
software available under the Apache License, Version 2.0
(www.gbif.org) BioCASE uses a Mozilla Public License.
(www.biocase.org) The ScratchPad website is based on the Drupal
CMS, which operates under the the GNU General Public License.
(www.scratchpads.eu) If AITs contribution to the project is based
on own developed proprietary components that are not yet in the
open domain, these will be re-factored and delivered under an open
source license. The GeoNames server considered as an initial tool
for geographic name checking (needed mainly for the locality where
the natural history objects comes from, not were it is housed
today) operates under a Creative Commons by license for both, data
and web services (REST, JSON). (www.geonames.org) The textual
metadata as well as thumbnail images or soundbits provided for
EUROPEANA will be under open access without restrictions (Creative
Commons cc by license).
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GBIF Data Use Agreement (Website) open-up.eu
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Europeana now established CC0 as standard open-up.eu
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Institutional options open-up.eu Not to sign Europeana Data Use
Agreement (DEA) => No content provision through Europeana =>
Breach (?) of EU contract for OpenUp! providers Sign DEA and
provide data as planned => high quality GBIF-Data is put into
the public domain Sign DEA and restrict data provision =>
slightly more complicated technical setup (loss of future automatic
data provision) => semantic links in Europeana may suffer
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open-up.eu How to deal with it ? think science
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BioCASE - Biological Collection Access Service
www.biocase.orgwww.biocase.orgBHL-Europe - Biodiversity Heritage
Library Europe -
http://www.bhl-europe.eu/http://www.bhl-europe.eu/CETAF Consortium
of European Taxonomic Facilities
www.cetaf.orgwww.cetaf.orgEUROPEANA
www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.htmlwww.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.htmlGBIF
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
www.gbif.orgwww.gbif.orgOpenUp! Opening up Europes natural history
heritage for Europeana www.open-up.euwww.open-up.euSYNTHESYS A
Synthesis of Systematics Ressources -
http://www.synthesys.info/http://www.synthesys.info/
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Thank you for your attention! open-up.eu Lateral view of
Epimetopus mendeli from Peru, which is currently under description
as new for science in a collaborative paper by the scientists of
National Museum in Prague and the Museum of Natural History in
London.
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OpenUp! website
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Data processing steps in the mobilisation of multimedia content
from natural history institutions for Europeana open-up.eu Local
collection databases holding records with references to multimedia
objects, managed with local tools that may differ widely between
collections, both with respect to content as to relational database
management technology.
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open-up.eu The local database is accessed by the BioCASE
Wrapper, that performs the transformation to ABCD standard XML,
thus allowing access by standard tools The Data Quality Toolkit
software interacts with the BioCASE Wrapper to conduct integrity
checks with respect to names and other data integrity rules.
Results are fed back interactively to the local DB management,
including an interface explaining XML errors that are discovered in
the course of the harvesting process.
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open-up.eu BioCASe Provider Software (Wrapper) Software package
that wraps around the collection database, equips it with a BioCASe
protocol compliant interface 2.Translates queries to the collection
database SELECT * FROM specimen WHERE ScientificName LIKE Marmota
marmota% 1.Accepts requests from the network 3. Transforms results
into ABCD documents and sends them back Marmota marmota?
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open-up.eu At the aggregator level the OpenUp! Harvester will
access the local wrappers using the OpenUp! Metadata held and cache
the ABCD XML files. ABCD files are transformed to EDM conformant
data using the Europeana Mapping Content open to Europeana (and
others) for harvesting via OAI-PMH
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Design Principles No central database Data remain in the
existing DB systems Data Provider gets full credit Full control
over published data by collection holder Partial publication
possible Collection holder can withhold information from
publication (e.g., locality data for endangered species) or exclude
records (e.g. until research results are published) Wrapper
principle Data remain in original collection management system No
changes in workflow for curator/local users
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ABCD Data Schema Access to Biological Collection Data: Data
schema for all types of primary biodiversity data
(living/preserved/observational,
botanical/zoological/bacterial/viral, marine/terrestrial) XML
(eXtensible Markup Language) based can be consumed by humans and
machines Highly complex, hierarchical, currently 1,055 data
elements almost every data item will fit in Extendable (plug-in
slot for additional information) standard (currently version
2.06)