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. 2012:(209):47-54.
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.209.3179. Epub 2012 Jul 20.

OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline for natural history data

Walter G Berendsohn  1 , Anton Güntsch
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OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline for natural history data

Walter G Berendsohn et al. Zookeys. 2012.

Abstract

Multimedia data held by Natural History Museums and Universities are presently not readily accessible, even within the natural history community itself. The EU project OpenUp! is an effort to mobilise scientific biological multimedia resources and open them to a wider audience using the EUROPEANA data standards and portal. The connection between natural history and EUROPEANA is accomplished using well established BioCASe and GBIF technologies. This is complemented with a system for data quality control, data transformation and semantic enrichment. With this approach, OpenUp! will provide at least 1,1 Million multimedia objects to EUROPEANA by 2014. Its lean infrastructure is sustainable within the natural history community and will remain functional and effective in the post-project phase.

Keywords: ABCD; BioCASe; Biodiversity Informatics; Collections; EDM; ESE; EUROPEANA; GBIF; Multimedia; Natural History; OpenUp!.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Herbarium specimen Crocus vernus L. (© Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germany) and Tapestry called Krokus by Britta Rendahl (1976) (© Upplandsmuseet, Uppsala, Sweden).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Information flow from a collection data provider via the central OpenUp! aggregator to the EUROPEANA harvester and portal. The collection database uses standard BioCASe/ABCD technology for connecting up to the network.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The OpenUp! Data Quality Toolkit
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
OpenUp! Data Quality Toolkit annotation indicating that an identification is using a name which is a synonym (according to a concept reconciliation service provided by Kew Gardens).
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