1. The OpenUp Data Quality Toolkit TDWG 2013 Anton Güntsch Freie Universität Berlin Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

2. www.open-up.eu OpenUp! technical infrastructure

3. www.open-up.eu Data Quality Toolkit DQ Service Data Quality Toolkit (lightweight web application) Local Collection Database BioCASe Provider Software DQ Service DQ Service DQ Service

4. www.open-up.eu Quality services used by DQT Syntax checks (collection date, coordinates, altitude, iso country, multimedia mime types, etc.). Distribution checks Zoological and botanical name and concept checks

5. www.open-up.eu Query interface

6. www.open-up.eu Example response

7. www.open-up.eu Relevance of the Data Quality Toolkit OpenUp!: relevant/useful (but not essential). BioCASE: relevant/useful (but not yet deployed). Beyond OpenUp!/BioCASE: potentially relevant/useful but not sufficiently generic.  We need a broader user and developer base

8. www.open-up.eu DQT: creating synergies with similar initiatives BGBM: Data Quality Task Group – OpenUp! (EU) – reBiND (German Research Foundation) – BioVeL (EU) – BiNHum (German Research Foundation) Aim: collaborative code hosting, development, advertisement, bug tracking, documentation, legal framework. Collaborations with similar international efforts.

9. www.open-up.eu Data quality library architecture

10. www.open-up.eu Anton Güntsch Freie Universität Berlin Botanic Garden & Bot. Museum Berlin-Dahlem R&D Group Biodiversity Informatics Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8 D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem Germany a.guentsch@bgbm.org www.bgbm.org/biodivinf