miss the forest: bringing together multiple taxonomies

Miss the Forest For The Trees

Bringing Together Multiple Classifications

XIV TDWG - Firenze / 2013-11-01

Settingobject oriented Natural History Collection

Size / Ageview People

Background Taxonomy / Systematics

Relevancelocal - regional – national

continental - global


Aimsstructure and analyze the Collection

taxonomically

Reason general Collection vs. separate Collectionsdigitized type material of certain groups

Grasses – Myrtaceae

Relevanceinternal – administratively - outreach


objects

curation

Laurus L. / Lauraceae Juss. Illicium L. / Illiciaceae (DC.) A. C. Sm.

Magnolia L. / Magnoliaceae Juss. Annona L. / Annonaceae Juss.

workflow diagram



classifications are stored in a relational database

elements

names - atomized name stringsconnected to external sources ( IPNI/Tropicos/...)

references - published literature (persons) / working listslinked to digital content via DOIs (publishers) or PURLs (BHL)

accepted taxa - incl. homo- and heterotypic synonyms and (inferred) basionym references

only accepted taxa used for linking up children with parents

Service based architecture

Served through REST service Interfaces with responses in JSON(P) format.

The Services are part of the JACQ database System, which is available as an OpenSource package on sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/jacq/

Visualisation is provided using a jsTree (which is a jQuery based tree browser). The jsTree is directly connected to the service endpoints. This yields a layered software architecture, which is independent of the underlying database system.


sources included 20131101

nationalExk. Flora of Austria (1994 / 2005 / 2008 ) – finished

regionalFlora Iranica (1963--) – only accepted taxa ( regional )

globalDalla Torre & Harms (1900-1908) – work in progressCronquist 1981 – completed

APG + recent update in Phytotaxa 2011 – completed (global )Lycophytes & Ferns & Gymnosperms - Phytotaxa 2011 – completedSoreng et al 20120808 – Grasses – completedFunk et al. 2009 – Compositae - completedAnnonaceae – showcase – familiy finished – lower taxa work in progressAmaranthaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Portulacaceae (et al.) – work in progressEbenaceae, Myristicaceae – work in progress

classifications (incl. multiple taxonomies)


classification bowser @ JACQ


http://jacq-dev.botanik.univie.ac.at/jacq-code/index.php?r=dataBrowser/classificationBrowser/index




Future

Future enhancements to the classification browser will include a pre-rendering of classifications. This means that the strictly relational scheme will be pre-calculated into a faster structure, which yields a intentional information loss in order to provide citable (and therefore revision save) references to classifications through state of the art web Interfaces.

NETWORKS

• Global Plants Initiative – JSTOR

• GBIF !

• EUROPEANA – Cultural heritage of Europe

• BHL

• INSPIRE / GEOSS


needs

for Curation and Handling

• Names / Taxa (?)labels / concepts

• Classifications for sorting (?)

• physical / virtual„remove“ information from sourceScratchpads / Edit PlatformCybertaxonomy


open questions

• servicespersistent availability of external services

caching vs. incorporating of „used“ data(g)UIDs

• datacomplementing data stores / repositories

forking / propagation of contentGUIDs


Paul Maas (U - WAG), Wilfried Morawetz

Lars Chatrou (WAG), Elke Döring, Bernhard von Hagen, Martin Röser (HAL), Charlie Charvis

(BM), Armando Urquiola (HPPR), Nelson Zamora (INB), Antonio Webber (UniAmaz), George

Schatz (MO), Bobbi Angell, Jacky Kallunki, Mike Nee (NY), David Johnson (OWU), Álvaro

Pérez (QCA), Adriana Lobão (RB), Renato Mello-Silva (SPB), Tom Wendt (TEX), Gerhard

Gottsberger (ULM), Magda Chanco (USM), Otto Huber (VEN)

Michael Malicky (LI), Fritz Ehrendorfer, Andrea Frosch-Radivo, Michael Hesse, Hanna

Schneeweiß, Tod Stuessy, Walter Till (WU), Anton Igersheim, Ernst Vitek, Bruno

Wallnöfer, Wolfgang Koller (W)

CURATORSA, ALCB, AAU, AMAZ, B, BAB, BH, BIGU, BM, BOLV, BP, BR, BSC, C, CAY, CEN, CHAPA, COAH, COL, C

R, CUVC, CUZ, CVRD, E, EAP, ECON, EHH, ENCB, F, FDG, FHO, FI, FT, G, GB, GH, GJO, GOET, GUA,

GUAT, GUAY, HAC, HAJB, HAL, HB, HPPR, HRB, HUA, HUEFS, IAN, IBGE, ICA, IJ, INB, INPA, IPA, JAU

M, JE, K, L, LAGU, LE, LI, LINN, LL, LOJA, LPB, LZ, M, MA, MBM, MEDEL, MEXU, MG, MICH, MO, MY, N

A, NY, OXF, P, PH, PI, PMA, PORT, PR, PRC, QCA, QCNE, R, RB, S, SCZ, SEL, SP, SPB, SPF, STRI, TE

FH, TEX, TFAV, TO, U, UB, UCWI, ULM, UPS, US, USM, USZ, UVAL, VEN, W, WAG, WIS, WRSL, WU, X

AL, Z, ZT

Financing / Support Austrian Academy of Sciences, Natural History Museum Vienna, University of Vienna,

EU, GBIF, GBIF-ATXIV TDWG - Firenze / 2013-11-01

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