Software & services for georeferencing of natural history collections data automated georeferencing verification & correction batch processing geographic visualization uncertainty determination collaborative georeferencing interoperability multi-lingual kml export google, bing, openstreet, wms soap & rest api training

What is Georeferencing pushepatapa creek, trib. to pearl river, 7.8 miles north of bogalusa at hwy 21; Washington; LA; USA latitude: longitude: uncertainty radius: 48m uncertainty polygon: , , , , , …

Typical Workflow pushepatapa creek, trib. to pearl river, 7.8 miles north of bogalusa at hwy 21; Washington; LA; USA Automated Georeferencing Verification/adjustment of output coordinates & uncertainties Data Preparation Automated Processing Human Participation latitude: longitude: uncertainty radius: 48m uncertainty polygon: , , , , , …

Eagle Lake, Warren County, Mississippi, USA Representation of Uncertainty

Uncertainty within GEOLocate Polygons represented as a comma delimited array of vertices using latitude and longitude Point radius and polygonal uncertainties Supports auto-detection and generation of polygons (web app only, in development for desktop app) Point radius represented as a distance in meters from georeferenced point

Choices: Web vs. Desktop?

Web Client Walkthrough

Homochitto National Forest; MS; USA

Along Highway 84

Batch Georeferencing

Collaborative Georeferencing: Sharing Data

Collaborative Georeferencing: Distributed Workloads

A Framework for Collaborative Georeferencing DiGIR Service Record Processor CoGe Client Application (Desktop or Web) Cache Update Web Service CoGe Web Portal Application Data Store Georeferencing Web Service Data Retrieval Web Service Insert Correction Web Service Remote Data Source CSV Upload

Collaborative Georeferencing Management Portal

Georeferencing Communities Data Sources Create Communities Add New Users & Link Out

Georeferencing Communities Data Sources

Assign all records from Kenya to experts on East African regions User Management: Task Assignment

Monitoring & Managing Progress

Data Repatriation

Collaborative Web Client Optional Hyperlink

Embeddable Web Client Interoperability Georeferencing Web Services

SOAP & HTTP Get/Post Georeferencing Services: GEOLocate v2

HTTP/ OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length string int double double string int string double string. georef2() Version 2 Get Response

Application Service: Embeddable Client Lightweight web based client, specifically designed for embedding into other web applications. Requires JavaScript postMessage – compatible with all modern browsers. Internet Explorer 8.0+ Firefox 3.0+ Safari 4.0+ Google Chrome 1.0+ Opera 9.5+

Arctos

Excel v=1&Country=USA&State=LA&County=Washington&Locality=Bogalusa&georef=run

Future Work: Broad Crowdsourcing Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, near Gainesville. Alachua; FL; USA Clustering based upon spatial variance, uncertainties & user skill level.

Paleontology Data: Gazetteers Needed?

Paleontology Data: Base Layers Needed?