Annotations in the ALA Lessons Learned So Far Donald Hobern TDWG Conference Symposium Annotations:...
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Annotations in the ALA Lessons Learned So Far Donald Hobern [email protected] TDWG Conference Symposium Annotations: No longer just a slip of paper… New Orleans, 18 October 2011, 12.00 midday The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund
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Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future Centralised annotation service Collection Database Item 1 Item 2 Collection Database Item 3 Aggregated Cache Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Image Database Image A Image B Species Profiles Profile X Access Item 1 via interface to Aggregated Cache and provide annotation Annotation Store 1’2’’2’ 3’B’A’ X’X’’’X’’ Access Item 2 via interface to Collection Database and provide annotation
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Annotations in the ALALessons Learned So Far
Donald [email protected] Conference SymposiumAnnotations: No longer just a slip of paper…New Orleans, 18 October 2011, 12.00 middayThe Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategyand further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Annotations
• Enhancement to original data record– Correction– Additional information
• Associated with record by stable identifier• Potentially provided by a range of agents
– Distributed users– Machine processing
• Minimal to significant structure• Discoverable and interpretable by other users
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Centralised annotation service
CollectionDatabase
Item 1Item 2
CollectionDatabase
Item 3
Aggregated CacheItem 1Item 2Item 3
ImageDatabaseImage AImage B
Species ProfilesProfile X
Access Item 1 via interface to Aggregated Cache and provide annotation
AnnotationStore
1’ 2’’2’3’ B’A’X’ X’’’X’’
Access Item 2 via interface to Collection Database and provide annotation
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Application-specific annotations
CollectionDatabase
Item 1Item 2
CollectionDatabase
Item 3
Aggregated Cache
Item 1Item 2Item 3
ImageDatabaseImage AImage B
Species Profiles
’’’
’’
’’ X’
Profile XX’’’X’’
Access Item 1 via interface to Aggregated Cache and provide annotation
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Occurrence data
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Images
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Names
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Volunteer involvement
Sharing biodiversity knowledge to shape our future www.ala.org.au
Literature
The Atlas is funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research
Infrastructure Strategyand further supported by the Super Science Initiative of the Education Investment Fund
The Atlas of Living Australia Participants
The Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC)
The Council of Heads of Australian Entomological Collections (CHAEC)
The Council of Heads of Australasian Collections of Microorganisms (CHACM)
The Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD)
