1. Content provision Zoological and Botanical Community Content Provision, Metadata Catalogue, and Quality Control OpenUp! Plenary - 25 April 2013, Prague

2. WP 4 Zoological Community Content Provision, Metadata Catalogue and Quality Control Christoph Häuser (WP leader) & Jana Hoffmann (Coordinator) Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity

3. www.open-up.eu WP4 Content covered by WP4: Zoology, Paleontology, Mineralogy, Anthropology Type of content: Specimen images specimen labels field books animal sounds scientific artwork From left to right and top to bottom: mineral (NM), human skull (NM), fieldbook (UH), butterfly (MfN), fossil specimen (NM)

4. www.open-up.eu WP4 objectives months 13‐24 To continue to develop an integrated institutional and departmental base for zoological natural history content provision to Europeana using the GBIF/BioCASE infrastructure To ensure that the local zoological provider software and metadata mapping is functional for all content data sources To supervise quality assurance procedures for the provided zoological, paleontological, mineralogical and anthropological metadata and multimedia objects To provide a status report on OpenUp! zoological content provision

5. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Data Quality Service for Zoological Names New features: Parameter for selecting one or more databases Fuzzy search extended to concept search in the Catalogue of Life (CoL) Implementation of the Fauna Europaea concept search Inclusion of Dyntaxa, PBDB, and Index Fungorum into the zoological name service of the Data Quality Toolkit Dyntaxa - Swedish taxonomic database PBDB - The Paleobiology Database

6. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Local Data Provision Deliverables and components: D12 & MS09 (M18) - Local zoological data provider software and metadata mapping functional for all content sources. List of all access point URLs List of all connected datasources Technical information on BioCASE Provider Software (BPS)

7. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Local Data Provision Furthermore … Plan for content provision 3 rd project year 2 new providers with BPS (MNHN, GIT) Regular update of coordination documents (GoogleDocs): – “Data provision plan ‐ technical set‐up & mapping” – “OpenUp plan”

8. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Local Data Provision 12 (+2) data provider in WP4 Total of 59 datasources 18 April 2013

9. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Data Quality Enhancement Process and Data Provision Deliverables and components: C4.3.1 (M18) - Operational content provision (zoology) – first report. Overview over number and type of provided multimedia objects Stages in content provision Description of content (for re-use in WP8)

10. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Data Quality Enhancement Process and Data Provision Furthermore … Monitoring of data provision progress and data quality check – BioCASe Monitor Service (coordination and provider level)  development WP4, WP7 & GBIF-D http://edit.africamuseum.be/biocasemonitor/ http://edit.africamuseum.be/biocasemonitor/ – Data Quality Toolkit (provider level)  development WP2 and WP3; WP4 & WP5 (Name Services) http://services.bgbm.org/DataQualityToolkit/ http://services.bgbm.org/DataQualityToolkit/

11. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Data Quality Enhancement Process and Data Provision Total of 127.341 multimedia objects through BPS August 2012 (D12): 87,319 * EFG – Model for integration18 April 2013 ** *

12. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Data Quality Enhancement Process and Data Provision OpenUp! content through BPS and content available in Europeana 96,772 objects available in Europeana (January 2013 harvest)

13. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Final Data Quality Checking Deliverables and Components: C4.4.1 - Data quality check feedback (zoology) Quality assurance at metadata and object level Questionnaire: “Quality Enhancement of Multimedia Objects and Associated Metadata in the Natural History Domain” Quality assurance in Europeana

14. www.open-up.eu Results achieved Data Quality Service for Paleontological and Mineralogical Objects Proof of concept for the integration model based on EFG 3 provider applying integration model to their paleontological/ mineralogical content (UT-NHM, NM, GIT) HIT was customized successfully to harvest mineralogical content

15. www.open-up.eu Difficulties encountered and remedial actions Difficulties encounteredRemedial actions Multiple images/ one record issueWill be solved with new Europeana data model; temporary solution: records are multiplied in the Natural History Aggregator with extension of ID HIT Tool – compliance with OpenUp! standard EFG HIT customized for concept MineralName; issue solved Europeana portal – preview linked to ProductURI and not FileURL MfN, no light box preview Issue reported to Europeana team, provider mapping is correct Europeana portal – no previews for ETI content Issue reported to Europeana team, provider allows access for thumbnail creation

16. www.open-up.eu Workplan for year 3 – Project objectives To continue to develop an integrated institutional and departmental base for zoological natural history content provision to Europeana using the GBIF/BioCASE infrastructure To ensure that the local zoological provider software and metadata mapping is functional for all content data sources with focus on new content providers To supervise quality assurance procedures for the provided zoological, paleontological, mineralogical and anthropological metadata and multimedia objects To provide two status reports on OpenUp! zoological content provision including aspects of sustainability

17. www.open-up.eu Workplan for year 3 – data provision

18. www.open-up.eu Workplan for year 3 – Reports D/MSCTitleWPLeadMonthPart of C4.3.2Operational content provision (zoology), review and second report 4MfN28D23 C4.4.2Data quality check feedback (zoology) 4MfN28D23 C4.3.3Sustainable content provision (zoology), third report and outlook 4MfN35D23 C4.4.3Data quality check feedback (zoology) 4MfN35D23