Coordination and Policy Development in Preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System Supported by the European Commission through its FP7 research funding programme pro-iBiopshere

Review of WP3: Scientific content and workflow coordination Walter Berendsohn Dept. of Research and Biodiversity Informatics Pro-iBiosphere Management meeting, 15 February 2013, Leiden

WP 3 - Aims Review of methods and approaches towards creating reusable data in publication workflows – (editorial policies) – (IPR management) – (citizen science for data enhancement, use and re-use) creating reusable data from literature – (semantic tagging of content) – (linking content to external sources) and providing the results to the communities involved

WP3 – Objectives Analyze methods (data acquisition, curation and semantic integration). Review current methods for semantic mark up and their use. Facilitate crowdsourcing [random individual markup] and auth-sourcing [identified individuals recruited to do markup]. [Promote standards in annotation management] Align efforts for semantic mark up of biodiversity literature and provide technical and social solutions. Attract and get feedback from potential new users to biodiversity informatics infrastructures.

WP3 – Partners involved Naturalis5.0 NBGB0.5 FUB-BGBM11.0 Pensoft3.0 RBGK1.0 Plazi4.0 MfN5.0

WP3 – Tasks and Deliverables Task 3.1 Data acquisition and curation Lead: Naturalis Participants: NBGB, FU-BGBM, RBGK Start/End: November 2012 / May 2013 Milestone 10: Workshop on data curation and acquisition of Floras and Faunas (February 2013) Deliverable 3.1: Best Practices Guide on Editorial Policies (May 2013) “a review and analysis of the existing methods for acquisition and curation of primary biodiversity data” [for taxonomic treatments].

WP3 – Tasks and Deliverables Task 3.2 Semantic mark-up generation, data quality, and user- participation infrastructure Lead: Plazi Participants: Naturalis, FUB-BGBM, PENSOFT, RBGK Start/End: November 2012 / August 2013 Milestone 11: Workshop on semantic mark-up generation, data quality and user-participation infrastructure (February 2013) Deliverable 3.2.1: Concept paper for involvement [in semantic markup] of individual experts, commercial vendors, and citizen scientists (May 2013) Deliverable 3.2.2: Report on the state and quality of biosystematics documents and survey reports [?] (August 2013)

WP3 – Tasks and Deliverables Task 3.3 Semantic integration of biodiversity literature Lead: MfN Participants: FUB-BGBM, PENSOFT, Plazi Start/End: September 2012 / August 2014 Deliverable 3.3.1: Report on state-of the art and research horizons of semantic integration of biodiversity literature (December 2013) Milestone 12: Workshop on mark-up of biodiversity literature (February 2014) Deliverable 3.3.2: Report on progress during the coordination process of partners and non consortium partners (April 2014) “a workplan and roadmap for the semantic integration of biodiversity literature”

Further Links to Ongoing Projects and Initiatives World Flora Online Initiative e.g. EU-BON BioVeL LifeWatch i4Life BioVeL LifeWatch i4Life GBIF, BioCASE Taxonomic treatments Citizen science & Data Publishing SOA & taxonomic backbone Specimen information PESI, Euro+Med PlantBase Species information, images Species page aggregators New Taxa, alternative concepts

WP3 – Links Within Pro-iBiosphere Task 3.1 Data acquisition and curation Task 3.2 Semantic mark-up generation, data quality, and user- participation infrastructure Task 3.3 Semantic integration of biodiversity literature User requirements, Tool training International cooperation Legal issues, Open Access Standards, BHL as a source?