biodiversity informatics at the natural history museum
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Biodiversity Informatics at the Natural History Museum
Ed BakerTerrestrial Invertebrates, Department of Life Sciences& NHM Informatics Initiative
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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
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_cooker
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We like data• 70 million+ specimens collected over 400 years
• 350,00+ books
• ??? Unpublished datasets in archive, notebooks, computes
• ??? In the minds of staff
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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
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Flowing Data
Publication
Collection Curation Use
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Flowing Data
Collection Curation
Somebody retires Somebody dies Project is cancelled
Sits in desk drawer or on a hard drive until….
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Flowing Data
Collection Curation Use
Data Publication
Re-use
Publication
Re-use Re-use Re-use
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Flowing Data: from collection to reuse
Collection Curation Use
Data Publication
Re-use
Publication
Re-use Re-use Re-use
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Collection
Citizen Science
Automated identification and monitoring
Traditional taxonomic sources
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Flowing Data: from collection to reuse
Curation Use
Data Publication
Re-use
Publication
Re-use Re-use Re-use
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Curation
Websites for communities to publish and curate:• Taxonomy / nomenclature• Bibliographies• Specimen information• Character matricies
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Flowing Data: from collection to reuse
Use
Data Publication
Re-use
Publication
Re-use Re-use Re-use
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Use: Oboe
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Flowing Data: from collection to reuse
Data Publication
Re-use
Publication
Re-use Re-use Re-use
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Publication (Data)
• Datasets
• Single species descriptions
• Checklists
• Software
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Flowing Data: from collection to reuse
Re-use
Publication
Re-use Re-use Re-use
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Publication (Research)
• Traditional research
• Systematic zoology
• Phylogeny
• Biogeography
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Flowing Data: from collection to reuse
Re-use Re-use Re-use Re-use
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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
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NHM Data Portal
• Aggregator for NHM science data
• Visualisation tools for datasets
• Allows export of NHM data for re-use
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The Informatics Landscape
>18K specimen records(local small scale coverage)
>276M specimen records(worldwide coverage)
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The Informatics Landscape
A webpage for every species
Aggregate specimen and observation data globally
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Wikimedian in 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
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Flowing Data: from collection to reuse
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"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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