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CETAF summary of state of play

Anton GüntschFreie Universität Berlin

Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-DahlemDept. of Research and Biodiversity Informatics

[email protected]

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What is CETAF?

„Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities“

, an association that brings together natural history institutions with common interests, comprises 32 members that jointly represent 56 Natural History Museums, Natural Science Museums and Botanical Gardens from 19 European countries.

Güntsch: CETAF summary EU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu

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What is CETAF?

• CETAF member organisations hold the major proportion of the 2.5 billion natural history specimens worldwide.

• A tremendously important ressource for research and education.

Güntsch: CETAF summary EU BON Informatics Workshop 2015, Joensuu© J.

Holstein et

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CETAF initiatives, activities, working groups

• European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT)• Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST)• Biodiversity Heritage Library – Europe (BHL-Europe)


Initiatives

Activities

Working groups

SYNTHESYS, BioCASE, OpenUp!, pro-iBiosphere, ViBrant, EDIT, Euro+Med, Fauna Europaea, EU BON, …

• Digitisation group• Research Assessment Group• Training and e-Learning Group• Collections Policy Board - CPB• Legislation and Regulations Group - L&R • European Initiatives Advisory Group - EIAG• Information Science & Technology Commission - ISTC

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Example Informatics infrastructures provided by CETAF institutions – OpenUp!


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Example informatics infrastructures provided by CETAF institutions - PESI


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Example informatics infrastructures provided by CETAF institutions - PESI


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ISTC mission

Information Science & Technology Commission – ISTC

• The ISTC was established as a technical working group of the EU funded European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) and, upon agreement of all parties, was integrated into CETAF in 2011.

• The ISTC facilitates dialogue and collaboration between the informatics departments of CETAF member and non-member institutions to ensure institutional interoperability through the development common infrastructures and common standards.

• Its aim is to propose procedural changes and adaptations to informatics systems to ensure (as far as possible) compatibility of components for digital information exchange and sharing. Members of the ISTC officially represent IT and/or Biodiversity Informatics departments of CETAF institutions.


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Current ISTC topics (1)

• GIS and georeferencing mechanisms• A joint initiative for providing

workflows, tools, and services for georeferencing specimens

• Coordinated by Naturalis


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• Crowdsourcing of specimen label transcription.

• Successful platform implementation by the Paris Natural History Museum.

• Several CETAF member institutions want to adopt the solution.


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CETAF Contributions to EU BON

• Facilitating the management and mobilisation of collection-based data.• Dina• JACQ• PlutoF

• Taxonomic information systems and services.• FaunaEuropaea• Euro+Med• PESI• UTIS Integration Services

• And of course: data!


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Further information …

www.cetaf.org


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