1. OpenUp! Creating a cross- domain pipeline Walter G. Berendsohn & Anton Güntsch Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germany open-up.eu

2. Connecting the cultural and the natural history domains is the central idea behind OpenUp! (“Opening up Europe’s natural history heritage to EUROPEANA”). Tapestry called „Krokus“, B. Rendahl, 1976. © Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden. www.europeana.eu Herbarium specimen Crocus vernus L., BGBM Collection, Berlin. open-up.eu

3. open-up.eu www.europeana.eu/

4. Europeana  A cross-domain portal to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage.  To-date 15 million digital images, text and sound files, and videos with a focus on cultural history.  1500 institutions, currently 29 funded projects  Natural history: BHL-Europe, Natural Europe, OpenUp! Bronze Cat Coffin. © The Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, UK. www.europeana.eu

5. OpenUp! Project Details open-up.eu 3-years (03.2011 - 02.2014), 4.2 Million Euro 80% co-funded by the European Commission An initiative of CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities) and several European GBIF Nodes.

6. Task 1: Bringing Content to Europeana (and GBIF) open-up.eu OpenUp! is making multimedia content in the BioCASE network accessible to EUROPEANA. Committed to serve at least 1.1 million objects by the end of the project (Feb. 2014). Most of these records are presently not accessible to GBIF All content will automatically be served to GBIF when mobilised by OpenUp. A drawer with tropical butterflies collected by Alfred Russel Wallace (Natural History Museum, London)

7. Task 2: Linking BioCASE / GBIF with Europeana open-up.eu GBIF Index- based Portals Provider Database GBIF Index Py-Wrapper ABCD Py-Wrapper DwC-A

8. Task 2: Linking BioCASE / GBIF with Europeana open-up.eu ABCD data records with linked multimedia content are transferred to Europeana standards and offered to Europeana (and others) for harvesting via OAI-PMH

9. Task 3: Enhancing Data Quality open-up.eu 275 Person-months reserved for local data cleaning Data Quality Toolkit uses webservices, reports problems Starting with names and integrity rules

10. Task 3: Enhancing Data Quality Example: Data Quality Toolkit - Integrity Rules 1 Atomized Genus element 1 Atomized Genus elements should start with a single uppercase character followed ny a non-empty sequence of lower-case characters ABCD elements: /DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Identifications/Identification/Result/TaxonIdentified/ScientificName/Na meAtomised/Zoological/GenusOrMonomial /DataSets/DataSet/Units/Unit/Identifications/Identification/Result/TaxonIdentified/ScientificName/Na meAtomised/Botanical/GenusOrMonomial Regular expression: [A-Z][a-z]+ 2 Collection date fields 3 Site coordinate latitude 4 Site coordinate longitude 5 Syntax of email elements 6 ISO country element 7 Scientific name (zoology) 8 Scientific name (botany) 9 Mime type for multimedia objects 10 Check whether multimedia object file is available

11. Task 4: Extending the Network open-up.eu OpenUp! is actively promoting participation beyond the initial consortium Concerted Helpdesk activity Outreach and mobilisation activities supported by participating GBIF Nodes Dissemination activities New providers will be new GBIF/BioCASE providers (also for non-multimedia content) The type specimen of a goliath beetle Goliathus atlas Nickerl, 1887 deposited in the collections of the National Museum, Prague, and its original type labels

12. Task 5: Enhancing the Metadata open-up.eu ABCD specimen data records contain many elements that are useful for semantic linking Multicultural context Enhance scientific names by multilingual common names – see next talk Enhance names with synonyms (using same services as data quality toolkit) ? Multilingual terms for specific areas E.g. transliteration of collector names?

13. Problem #1: Data Access Rights for Metadata open-up.eu BioCASE & GBIF networks: GBIF Data Use Agreement OpenUp!: CC-by Attribution! EUROPEANA now requires CC-0

14. For Europeana, OpenUp! Provides open-up.eu A single access point to distributed non-bibliographic multimedia content in the natural history domain Validation mechanisms to ensure compliance with EUROPEANA standards. Sustained item-level access by integration with existing networks in the domain (i.e. GBIF, BioCASE and CETAF). Metadata enrichment by means of multilingual metadata vocabularies and thesauri for natural history data (e.g. names) to enhance cross-linking of Europeana content. A mechanism to extend participation in content provision.

15. For GBIF and the NH-Collections OpenUp! Provides open-up.eu 80% funding for 275 person months of qualified staff time for data cleaning and quality control. Increased relevance of our data by inclusion in EUROPEANA. Tools for quality control of species names and other data. Help to extend data provision for GBIF and BioCASE. Funding for a multilingual index of common names. Technical solutions for shared but distributed information infrastructures. Kionidella moravicensis, Miocene bryozoans from Moravian part of Carpathain Foredeep, old about 14 milions years. Collection of National museum Prague.

16. BioCASE - Biological Collection Access Service – www.biocase.orgwww.biocase.orgBHL-Europe - Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe - http://www.bhl-europe.eu/http://www.bhl-europe.eu/CETAF – Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities – www.cetaf.orgwww.cetaf.orgEUROPEANA – www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.htmlwww.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.htmlGBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility – www.gbif.orgwww.gbif.orgOpenUp! – Opening up Europe’s natural history heritage for Europeana – www.open-up.euwww.open-up.euSYNTHESYS – A Synthesis of Systematics Ressources - http://www.synthesys.info/http://www.synthesys.info/

17. Thank you for your attention! open-up.eu

18. open-up.eu Lateral view of Epimetopus mendeli from Peru, which is currently under description as new for science in a collaborative paper by the scientists of National Museum in Prague and the Museum of Natural History in London.

19. Thank you for your attention! open-up.eu Lateral view of Epimetopus mendeli from Peru, which is currently under description as new for science in a collaborative paper by the scientists of National Museum in Prague and the Museum of Natural History in London.