By Aimee Stewart, J.H. Beach, C.J. Grady, J. Cavner University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute
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Lifemapper: A Web-services Architecture for Integrating Collections into Broader Research
Communities
ByAimee Stewart, J.H. Beach, C.J. Grady, J. Cavner
University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute
http://www.lifemapper.org
Lifemapper brings together …
Biodiversity Inventory(Macro) Ecological Modeling
Global Climate Change
Integrate & Catalog for Transparent, Repeatable Science
Integration
Archiving
EEML
Work Flow Tools
Repeatable Transparent Science
Ellison, A. 2010. J. Ecology
QuantumGIS
VisTrailsW
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Metadata
Data
Analysis
Visualization
Narrative
Internet
Lifemapper Services
Specify
Lifemapper Back-end
Data Archive Compute Resources
Pipeline
Back-end Software
Lifemapper Front-end
Internet
Software
Standards
<EML>
REST
SHP
ISO 19115
GTIFF
Lifemapper Relationships
ResearchClients
Servers
Client/Server
Specify Client
Lifemapper Tools
Modeling &
Analysis
LmSDM:Species Distribution Modeling
LmRAD:Range and Diversity
LmSDM:Species Distribution Modeling
Species Occurrence Data
Environmental Data
SDM Modeling AlgorithmPredicted Habitat
LmRAD:Range and Diversity
Species Habitat Data
Presence Absence Matrix (PAM)
Range and Diversity Quantifications
Metadata!!!
• Repeatability and Reproducibility• Process metadata• Extended EML– Describes steps / workflow– Read by EML-Reader – Transformed into Narratives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCFixtqlimg
New Directions
• With UNM EDAC and UTEP Cyber-ShARE– Extend environmental layers to NASA data – Provenance between EDAC and LM services
• SDM of fossil invertebrates• Advanced 3-d viz using GPUs and openGL• Identify location based on species
Take home!
• Web services exposing tools and data– Species Distribution Modeling– Range and Diversity
• Standards allowing mix and match• Clients simplifying access• Metadata simplifying re-execution• Collaborations making us happy
Lifemapper funded by:
U.S. National Science Foundation
NSF EPSCoR 0553722
NSF EPSCoR 0919443
EHR/DRL 0918590
BIO/DBI 0851290
OCI/CI-TEAM 0753336
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