WP5.2

C5.167 Integration of users from Fauna Europaea and Euro+Med communities

Apart from its role as a software environment supporting the day-to-day work of taxonomists and taxonomic communities, the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy provides advanced technologies for hosting checklist information systems at an international scale.

C5.144 Downloadable ready-to-install product bundles

The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy is a growing suite of web services and software applications communicating on the basis of the Common Data Model API (Application Programming Interface). For end-users, the diversity of tools can be confusing, especially if they don’t have previous knowledge of how to process biodiversity data in a virtualized workflow. In order to alleviate this first step, we created three standard software bundles each covering a particular User scenario.

C5.099 Community store documentation for Platform release 3

The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy is a suite of loosely coupled tools and services working together to support and optimize the taxonomic workflow. The core components of the platform from a user perspective are the CDM community stores which act as central data stores and are based on the Common Data Model (CDM). Several documentations are available for the different ways the community stores can be used.

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C5.115 CDM power user interface fully functional

The EDITor (EDIT taxonomic editor) is offering a word-processor like approach to data input, trying to hide from users the complexity of the highly structured taxonomic data in the CDM (Common Data Model). However, in some cases users need specific data in a more list- or spreadsheet-oriented form which allows for quick browsing and correction of bulk data. This is particularly true when data was imported into the CDM store, a process that often results in duplicated or otherwise inconsistent data.

C5.101 Framework Implementation available for Platform release 3

The CDM Framework is a Java-based programming library that offers all functionality needed to persistently store data based on the Common Data Model (CDM), to edit the data and to make it available for other applications and thus to the public. The integrated framework Spring has been updated to version 3.0. This version includes major changes, one of them being the support for RESTful services. All features available in version 2.2 continue to be available in v. 3.0 and have already been described in C5.058. New features have been added and are available in version 3.0

C5.099 Community store documentation for Platform release 3

The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy is a suite of loosely coupled tools and services working together to support and optimize the taxonomic workflow. The core components of the platform from a user perspective are the CDM community stores which act as central data stores and are based on the Common Data Model (CDM). Several documentations are available for the different ways the community stores can be used.

 

C5.143 Pilot implementation of integration with library catalogue and digital literature services

Literature is one of the fundaments of a taxonomist’s daily work. The Virtual Taxonomic Library (ViTaL) is to provide seamless access from within the EDIT Platform components to library catalogue and digital literature services. ViTaL is therefore a key component of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy. Moreover, the CDM Data Stores are valuable repositories of bibliographic information linked to taxa, and in contrast to library catalogues the records are often on the level of individual articles rather than entire journal or book volumes.

C5.141 Integration with central services

Many institutions and organizations throughout the world offer taxonomy related data online. One of the objectives of EDIT is it to ease the process of integrating such data into the taxonomist’s every day workflow. IT tools currently used by taxonomists usually do not have specific functionality to easily integrate such data. Instead either advanced IT knowledge is needed or work intensive and error-prone processes such as copy & paste have to be employed to transfer and transform data.

 

M5.35 CDM refinement concluded and documented for Platform release 3

In January 2008 and in March 2009 the first two versions of the Common Data Model (CDM) were frozen and documented. The first version was primarily based on experiences using existing data models and formats and attempted to cover all data elements relevant for the taxonomic workflow, so that data coming from different applications could be stored and processed with a single database. Version 2 included additions and refinements that came up as requirements from CDM Users and developers of the JAVA-based programming library on top of the CDM.

C5.140 CDM-PESI integration accomplished and tested

The Pan European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI, www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi/) develops and integrated access system to the three major European taxonomic checklists Euro+Med PlantBase (ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/), Fauna Europaea (www.faunaeur.org/), and the European Register of Marine Species (ERMS, www.marbef.org/data/erms.php). Additional European checklists will follow as soon as the basic infrastructure has been established.

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