1. Annotations in the ALA Lessons Learned So Far Donald Hobern Donald.Hobern@csiro.au TDWG Conference Symposium Annotations: No longer just a slip of paper… New Orleans, 18 October 2011, 12.00 midday The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund

2. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Annotations Enhancement to original data record –Correction –Additional information Associated with record by stable identifier Potentially provided by a range of agents –Distributed users –Machine processing Minimal to significant structure Discoverable and interpretable by other users

3. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Centralised annotation service Collection Database Item 1 Item 2 Collection Database Item 3 Aggregated Cache Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Image Database Image A Image B Species Profiles Profile X Access Item 1 via interface to Aggregated Cache and provide annotation Annotation Store 1’2’’2’ 3’B’A’ X’X’’’X’’ Access Item 2 via interface to Collection Database and provide annotation

4. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Application-specific annotations Collection Database Item 1 Item 2 Collection Database Item 3 Aggregated Cache Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Image Database Image A Image B Species Profiles ’’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ X’ Profile X X’’’X’’ Access Item 1 via interface to Aggregated Cache and provide annotation

5. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Occurrence data

6. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Images

7. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Names

8. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Volunteer involvement

9. Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au Literature

10. The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund The Atlas of Living Australia Participants The Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC) The Council of Heads of Australian Entomological Collections (CHAEC) The Council of Heads of Australasian Collections of Microorganisms (CHACM) The Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD)