Post on 11-Jul-2015
Palms of the World
online: eTaxonomy
via Palmweb
Lauren Gardiner, Alex Theys,
Soraya Villalba & Bill Baker
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
eTaxonomy workshop, May 2011
• eTaxonomy in the Palm community
eTaxonomy via Palmweb
Overview
• Palmweb fundamentals
• Palmweb progress and demo
• The future of Palmweb?
eTaxonomy in the Palm community
• 2005: EDIT project begins
• Existing European network (EUNOPS)
• Palms chosen as Kew’s exemplar group
• Open to and driven by palm community
• Facilitate collaboration among taxonomists
• Part of core activities of institutions
• Existing checklist for palms – broadly a
consensus classification
Aims
Beginnings
Ongoing content development
Online monograph of
the Palms of the World:
“Species Palmarum”
Palmweb fundamentals
What is Palmweb?
Online resource for authoritative and
up-to-date palm taxonomy
Brings together content from
scattered, often difficult to access
sources
Mostly aimed at taxonomists
Cyberplatform for Taxonomy developed
as part of EDIT project
WP6 Palms Exemplar Group
RBG Kew: Bill Baker & Soraya Villalba
WP5 developers
BGBM Berlin: Walter Berendsohn &
developer team
Palmweb fundamentals
Implementation
Current development - EU FP7
Palms project: Alex Theys
Content development now part of
core work at Kew and volunteer
resource at Aarhus University
General
pagesGeneral pages
Drupal CMS
( Scratchpads)
CDM
Palmweb fundamentals
Software
Taxon pages generated from
database
Common Data Model
EDIT Taxonomic Editor
• Desktop application/web access via virtual desktop
Taxonomic Editor
Palmweb fundamentals
Software
• Navigation by browsing and searching names
• Nomenclature and taxonomic relationships
• Flexible categories for descriptive content
• Referencing for all content possible
• No pdf or image manager – linked with urls
Content online:
• taxon pages: all c2400 spp.
• descriptive content: 1000 spp.
• original publications (pdf): c2100 accepted spp.
1000+ synonyms
• images: 850+ spp.
• general information on palms (classification, phylogeny)
Functionality:
• browse palm classification
• search by scientific name
• links to external databases (GBIF, NCBI) and
tools (keys, glossary)
Palmweb progress
Statistics
Lessons learned:
• Lack of documentation
• Communication issues
• Lack of agreed expectations
Palmweb progress
Success?
Community reception & interaction:
• Consultation with palm community,
including EUNOPS, throughout
• Very positive response at Palms2010
• Use statistics not currently available
• Anecdotal evidence - increasingly being
used by palm scientists
2006
design
2011...
development
• content inc.
volunteer input
• FP7 Palms
• portal general pages
Palmweb is still a work in progress
development
• content
• portal
2007 - 2009
introduction to
palm scientists
2010 - 2011
development
• content
• portal
• editor
future development
and sustainabiity
within eMonocot
project?
Palmweb
Progress and the future...
• Kew Palmweb and eMonocot teams
• Aarhus University Palmweb team (Henrik Balslev, Birgitte Bergmann, Sara Anderson)
• Palm scientist community
• EDIT WP5 team (Walter Berendsohn, and
developers Andreas Kohlbecker, Andreas Müller,
Niels Hoffmann, Anton Guentsch, Pepe Ciardelli and
more!)
• EDIT WP6 team (Dave Roberts et al.)
• Russell Hall
• Paul Wilkin and Bente Klitgaard
With thanks to…
Browse tree
Search
simple and
advace search
Palmweb progress
Demo
(following slides in case no web access)
Browse tree
Search
simple and
advace search
Search
results
accepted and
synonyms
names
thumbnails
protologues
Taxon page
content tabs
general tab
nomenclature
protologue
content sections
distribution map
Taxon page
content tabs
general tab
search other
databases
Taxon page
content tabs
general tab
references
Reference
page
Taxon page
content tabs
synonyms tab
homotypic and
heterotypic
protologues
type information
Taxon page
content tabs
images tab
gallery
lightbox
zoom
image metadata
Taxon page
content tabs
images tab
gallery
lightbox
zoom image
page
image metadata
Image page
General
pages
top menu
left-side boxes
General
pages
General
pages
General
pages