1. Beispielbild CETAF summary of state of play Anton Güntsch Freie Universität Berlin Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Dept. of Research and Biodiversity Informatics BiodiversityInformatics@bgbm.org

2. 2 What is CETAF? „Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities“, an association that brings together natural history institutions with common interests, comprises 32 members that jointly represent 56 Natural History Museums, Natural Science Museums and Botanical Gardens from 19 European countries. Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

3. 3 What is CETAF? CETAF member organisations hold the major proportion of the 2.5 billion natural history specimens worldwide. A tremendously important ressource for research and education. Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu © J. Holstei n et al.

4. 4 CETAF initiatives, activities, working groups European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT) Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) Biodiversity Heritage Library – Europe (BHL-Europe) Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu Initiatives Activities Working groups SYNTHESYS, BioCASE, OpenUp!, pro-iBiosphere, ViBrant, EDIT, Euro+Med, Fauna Europaea, EU BON, … Digitisation group Research Assessment Group Training and e-Learning Group Collections Policy Board - CPB Legislation and Regulations Group - L&R European Initiatives Advisory Group - EIAG Information Science & Technology Commission - ISTC

5. 5 Example Informatics infrastructures provided by CETAF institutions – OpenUp! Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu Raw data 1 2 3 4 6 5

6. 6 Example Informatics infrastructures provided by CETAF institutions – OpenUp! Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu BioCASE Harvester OAI-PMH Harvester ABCD ESE EDM

7. 7 Example informatics infrastructures provided by CETAF institutions - PESI Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

8. 8 Example informatics infrastructures provided by CETAF institutions - PESI Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

9. 9 ISTC mission Information Science & Technology Commission – ISTC The ISTC was established as a technical working group of the EU funded European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) and, upon agreement of all parties, was integrated into CETAF in 2011. The ISTC facilitates dialogue and collaboration between the informatics departments of CETAF member and non-member institutions to ensure institutional interoperability through the development common infrastructures and common standards. Its aim is to propose procedural changes and adaptations to informatics systems to ensure (as far as possible) compatibility of components for digital information exchange and sharing. Members of the ISTC officially represent IT and/or Biodiversity Informatics departments of CETAF institutions. Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

10. 10 Current ISTC topics (1) GIS and georeferencing mechanisms A joint initiative for providing workflows, tools, and services for georeferencing specimens Coordinated by Naturalis Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

11. 11 Current ISTC topics (2) Crowdsourcing of specimen label transcription. Successful platform implementation by the Paris Natural History Museum. Several CETAF member institutions want to adopt the solution. Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

12. 12 Current ISTC topics (3) Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

13. 13 CETAF Contributions to EU BON Facilitating the management and mobilisation of collection-based data. Dina JACQ PlutoF Taxonomic information systems and services. FaunaEuropaea Euro+Med PESI UTIS Integration Services And of course: data! Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

14. 14 Further information … www.cetaf.org Güntsch: CETAF summaryEU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu