The ePANDDA Project: Increasing accessibility to digitized data across paleontological and neontological domains Jocelyn Sessa (American Museum of Natural History) Susan Butts (Yale Peabody Museum) Talia Karim (University of Colorado) Gil Nelson (iDigBio/Florida State University) Chris Norris (Yale Peabody Museum) Dena Smith (National Science Foundation) Mark Uhen (George Mason University)
ePANDDA Enhancing PAleontological and Neontological Data Discovery API (Application Programming Interface) What does ePANDDA stand for? Chris Norris’ fault. ePANDDA is supported through NSF ICER 1540984: EarthCube IA. Collaborative Proposal: ePANDDA: Enhancing Paleontological and Neontological Data Discovery API
Leveraging vs Duplicating Why ePANDDA? Leveraging vs Duplicating
Literature annotations for iDigBio
Upcoming Hackathon at Drexel to refine and debug code Continued coordination/Integration with EarthCube and other initiatives Seek additional plug-ins for ePANDDA End users will include those already utilizing the three component databases, as well as those from outside of these communities. The group will be composed of researchers at all career stages, museum professionals from government and non-profit institutions, science educators and those who operate their own database projects. During year 2 (Summer 2017) ePANDDA project staff will host a hackathon at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), to elicit the assistance of biodiversity and paleo-biodiversity informatics programmers, development staff, and IT professionals in the refinement and utilization of ePANDDA.