1. TDWG EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy – An Overview Andreas Müller, Andreas Kohlbecker, Pepe Ciardelli, Julius Welby, Pere Roca, Niels Hoffmann, Patricia Kelbert, Lutz Suhrbier and Edit co-workers Conference 2008

2. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 What’s that ?? Platform for Cybertaxonomy Taxonomy, Computer, Web … taxonomist

3. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Platform Train platform (station) Travel faster Trains (tools) Trac system Adapter Cache machine Bookshop McDonalds Photoshop Show it Feedback Police don’t loose anything Timetable reusable

4. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Platform Architecture YES Independent components (desktop or web applications or services for machines) Old (existing) & new developments Service oriented (SOA) Adaptable to individual institutional IT preconditions Gradual migration Adaptable to new challenges NO Monolithic, single user interface application Everything new

5. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Platform Components

6. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Data Domain ABCD, DC, wmf, wfs TCSSDD ? ABCD, DC No common standard/model exists

7. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Common Data Model (CDM) New development Covering all relevant areas Leans on existing standards/ models (TCS, SDD, TDWG Ontology, Berlin Model, …) Exchange format Expandabel http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/cdm/v1/

8. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 CDM Library To access, persist & query CDM data Database independent Includes taxonomic business logic (Parsing, Validation,…) JAVA / Hibernate / Spring / Eclipse Local and remote API (Web Services) Bulk import/export Collaboration with other projects (e.g. CATE) IO (Bulk) Import/ Export

9. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 New Platform Components

10. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 http://search.biocase.org/edit Patricia Kelbert, BGBM Uses GBIF data Advanced search by using taxonomic thesauri Larger result High quality result Specimen and Observation Explorer for Taxonomists

11. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Geo Services Online GIS Client & Map services Taxonomically relevant layers Multi species symbolization Occurrence points Distribution per region presence/absence Publication ready quality … http://edit.csic.es/edit_geo/prototype/edit_project.html Pere Roca, CSIC, Madrid; Frank Theeten, RMCA, Tervuren

12. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 ViTaL - Virtual Taxonomic Library Meta Data Search (MetaLib) OpenURL (SFX) Harvester for known data sources (Falx) Web UI & Web Service

13. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Single Sign-On (Shibboleth) EDIT Federation Shibboleth Proxy

14. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Drupal based configuration themeing Data from CDM via web-service Taxonomic tree multiple trees filter flattening On-the-fly maps from GeoServer … Dataportals

15. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Taxonomic Editor Freetext ~ Word ↔ forms Nameparser Copy & Paste Drag & Drop Eclipse RCP Warning & Errors … http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/TaxonomicEditor Pepe Ciardelli, BGBM, Berlin

16. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Descriptive Data Use existing Tools SDD import/export functionalities for the Common Data Model Problem with different dialects Elise Kunzelmann, Hélène Fradin; MNHN; Paris

17. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Other Tools http://www.bdtracker.net/

18. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 EDIT Platform Cybergate

19. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Integrated Workflow (Example) CDM CDM Server Geo- server Geo- server Data- portal - Drupal Vital BCI Delta Lucid Expert² Tax Editor uBio SpObET

20. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Where are we ? DONE –CDM v1.0 (v1.3) –CDM Library (v1.3) –Pilot implementations ViTaL, MapViewer, GeoService,Editor, Dataportals, Shibboleth, Taxonomic Editor –Specimen & Observation Explorer is ready TODOs: –Import-/Export –Cybergate –Tools: Full functionality –CDM / Library: Roles, Versioning, (Synchronisation) –Feedback from users

21. Andreas Müller, Botanical Garden Botanic Museum Berlin, TDWG 2008 Thank you !