Roles and Goals
Greg Riccardi
iDigBio People
• University of Florida
o Larry Page, Jose Fortes, Pamela Soltis, Bruce McFadden, Renato
Figueiredo, Reed Beaman, Andrea Matsunaga, Alex Thompson, Matthew
Collins, Jason Grabon, Shari Ellis, Kevin Love, Betty Dunkel, Kate Rachwal,
Cathleen Bester
• Florida State University
o Greg Riccardi, Austin Mast, Marcia Mardis, Gil Nelson, Casey McLaughlin,
Deb Paul, Guillaume Jimenez
Mandate and Responsibility
• Provide portal access to collection information
o Make information available and discoverable
o Metadata and images
• Enable digitization and research
o Facilitate digitization workflows
o Oversee implementation of standards and best practices for digitization
• Be a client of digitization projects
o Actively seek partners and data sources
o Respond to cyberinfrastructure needs
• Engage communities
o Collections
o Research
o Citizen science and education
• Support ADBC goals
o Access to information
o Support for collections
Some Vision Stuff
• Collection Information is completely available!
o Engage, enable, ensure!
• iDigBio infrastructure works flawlessly
o Digitization technology and workflows
o Movement of information into collections cloud
o Portal for discovery and sharing
• TCNs are successful
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Successful operation of each TCN
Effective sharing among TCNs
Collaborative communities
Evaluation of effectiveness of digitization activities
• Broader community is engaged and served
• From Judy “Work beyond our comfort zone”
CI Stakeholders
Museums
TCNs
Collectors
Domain Data
Producers
Amazon Turk
GBIF
ALA
EOL
iPlant
Amazon WS
Google
National/Global
Data
Aggregators
Infrastructure
Providers
iDigBio
BISON
DataONE
TCNs
Microsoft Azure
Data Conservancy
Georeferencing
Researchers
Citizens
Domain Data
Consumers
Domain Service
Providers
TCNs
Government
Mapping TCNs
Imaging services
Data quality NESCent
OCR
Translation
iPlant 5
Why Not Use GBIF?
• We will be extending the GBIF capabilities
Full record-level information discovery and delivery
Metadata harvesting protocols
GUID per record with persistence
Attribution metadata with all data records
Media information ala Audubon Core
Bi-directional portal
• Feed back from data users to providers (e.g. data quality)
• Usage analytics
• Attribution to providers from analysis
• Annotation management
o Active repository technology
• Cloud computing infrastructure
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• We will be a GBIF cyber infrastructure partner
o E.g. IPT extension for Audubon Core
o Darwin Core Archive delivery of query results
Engaging Community
• Solicit partners
o Information providers
o Tool providers
o Current needs assessment from TCNs
• Cyberinfrastructure toolbox
o Determine tool needs from partners
o Acquire tools from projects and
o Create installable, interoperable appliances from tools
• Sample tools
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Specify as a consistent resource within communities
Morphbank image repository
Vertnet search engine
Atrium biodiversity information system
GBIF information provider toolkit (IPT)
Silver Biology tools for digitization and management
Support for Digitization Projects
Advocate standard practices in digitization
Use metadata standards
Provide taxon name services
Participate in workflow development
Share digitization practices across domains
Hold workshops for education and sharing
Enable and encourage social networking and
collaboration
• Enhance and develop tools
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o Seek additional funding
Education and Outreach
• Advance discovery and understanding while
promoting teaching, training, and learning
• Courses, course materials, seminars and workshops
developed as models
• Include and mentor students and professionals
• iDigBio graduate seminars, TCN workshops
• Broaden participation of underrepresented groups
• Enhance infrastructure for research and education
o Go to” place for discovery and understanding of biological diversity
Research Use Cases
• Sample research questions
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How are species distributed in geographical and ecological space?
What is the history of life on Earth?
What factors lead to speciation, dispersal, and extinction?
What are the impacts of climate change likely to be?
What information is needed for effective conservation strategies?
• Opportunities to Link Collections with
o Evolution, Ecology, Paleobiology, Genomics, Living Collections
Summary
• Engage community to determine needs and
capabilities
• Provide basic cyber infrastructure and information
portal
• Interact with TCNs and other digitization projects to
promote
o Data standards
o Best practices for digitization
• Enable research applications
o Provideinformation access
o Provide APIs for analysis tools
o Feedback information to providers
• Lead education and outreach efforts
• Respond to community