BCI Implementation Discussions

This page holds continued minutes from BiodiversityCollectionsIndexKickOffMeeting.

Role of BCI is to convert Potential to Kinetic Energy.

We should perhaps have a peer reviewed paper - Vishwas volunteers to write it up.

Development Time Line

Phase I

1. Sources of data and methods for synchronizing "business cards" for different collections e.g. IH, ISCW, CBOL/GenBank ( includes agreements for data supply) Fenscore, CORM.
2. "Editors" interface.
3. "Public" interface for data input directly from collections/researchers and browsing/searching.
4. Disambiguate records from partner authorities to a single GUID for each collection.
5. Mechanisms to inform partners of changes to data.
6. Gap analysis (what groups/locations are missing.)
7. Gap analysis by date - where are the old records.
8. Publicize system and encourage participation.
9. Roll out of NCD ToolKit? to provide data nodes where required.
10. Prioritize phase II Goals
11. Internationalization of interface etc.

Phase II

1. Community requirements refinement.
2. Re-prioritisation of goals.
3. Taxonomic Scope metadata
4. Geographic Scope metadata
5. Temporal Scope metadata
6. Authority file for institution/collection names through time for BHL/taxonomic literature analysis
7. "Annual Report of the Biodiversity Collections Index" - State of the World.
8. Statistical reports on ongoing basis.

Phase III

1. Evaluation and continued re-prioritization.
2. Service discovery
3. Multi-lingual

How many collections are there?

Phase III

How do we integrate with...

GenBank?/CBOL

• DwC? couplet to specimen location.

EoL?

• Collections that contain species X.

BHL/Library Community

• Authority file for institution/collection names through time for BHL/taxonomic literature analysis
• Curation/tracking of original materials collections.
• Scoping/feasibility of scanning original materials.

Collection Managers

• Distributed collections, identification of.
• Curation/tracking of original materials collections.
• Promotion of collections
• Report generation for administration (one button?).

Researchers

• Resource discovery - finding specimens
• Resource description - state where specimens are.

Ecologists

• National Ecological Observatory Network, Alter-NET etc

Customs/CITES

GBIF Nodes and Regional Collections

• Resource discovery. Collections in their area they should know about.

Getting Data Into BCI

• How do we keep a set of cards in BCI up to date with and external authority/supplier?

Index Herbariorum

• In K Emu
• Doing a dump is trivial to whatever format
• Acronym and contact details usually requested.

Getting Data out of BCI

Notifications of changes

Resolution web services

Mirroring services.

-- RogerHyam - 29 Jan 2008