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Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Document Mark-Upfor Different Users and Purposes
David King, The Open University, UK, [email protected]
David Morse, The Open University, UK, [email protected]
MTSR2013, Thursday 21 November 2013
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
The Biologia Centrali-Americana
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Why is it useful?
Baseline of species in central America• climate change• invasive species
Original manuscripts and in so many forms• images
• re-keyed
• OCR
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Taxonomists
Want to understand species• Name
• Concept
• Context
• Habitat
• Location
• Relationships
• Traits
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Computer Scientists
Want to understand data• Content
• Disambiguation
• Structure
• Cues
• Variations
• Intended – Stylistic
• Unintended – Processing Errors
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Differences in Practice
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Differences in Practice<div type="taxon synonymy"> <p elementid="BCA-aves-v3p1-2240"> <hi rend="genus"> <hi
rend="italic">Vireolanius</hi> </hi> <hi rend="species"> <hi
rend="italic">melitophrys</hi> </hi>, <bibl rend="primary"> <author>Du Bus</author>, <title>Esq. Orn.</title>
T25 genus 1647 1658 VireolaniusT26 specificepithet 1659 1670
melitophrys
The taxonomist wants this
But the computer scientist is happy with this
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
More Differences in Practice
Dr. Merrill also found a nest5; but this was in a bunch of Spanish moss (Tillandsia) about eight feet from the ground.
The nest is a beautiful structure placed on or close to the ground, and is composed of loose moss (Hypnum) intermingled with dead leaves and stems; the lining is composed of the fruit-stalks of the moss thickly felted together13.
They approach the Shrikes (Laniidæ); and, indeed, we think it not at all improbable that their more immediate relationship with the African genus Laniarius, which they strongly resemble in many points of coloration, will some day have to be reconsidered; but to do so here would lead us into a discussion far beyond the limits of the present work.
One specimen he killed was in the midst of an innumerable column of Tepegua ants (Eciton mexicanum), upon which he says it was doubtless feeding.
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Conclusions
Exploit or Explore
Ease of Immediate Use or Future Flexibility
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
For data scientists:
The ViBRANT corpus:
https://git.scratchpads.eu/v/vibrantcorpus.git
paper in preparation
Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Thank you to:
BHL (www.biodiversitylibrary.org)
For scanning and hosting the original material
INOTAXA (www.inotaxa.org)
For making the re-keyed data available
ViBRANT (vbrant.eu)
For funding this work as part of workpackage 7
ViBRANT is funded by the European Union 7th Framework Programme within the Research Infrastructures group. Contract no. RI-261532. Period, Dec. 2010 to Nov. 2013. Coordinator: Dr Vince Smith.