Beispielbild BioCASe, ABCD and its extensions

Jörg HoletschekBotanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-DahlemDept. of Biodiversity Informatics and LaboratoriesKönigin-Luise-Straße 6-814195 Berlin

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Protocol + schema + software enabling communication between- primary biodiversity data providers and - biodiversity networks (consumers/aggregators)

1. Accepts requests from the network

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Biological Collection Access Service

Marmotamarmota? 2. Translates query to the source

database

SELECT *FROM specimenWHERE ScientificName LIKE “Marmota marmota%“

3. Transforms results into ABCD documents and sends them back

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Usage of ABCD/BioCASe

Currently

~ 100 installations worldwide, serving~ 40m records to GBIF and 5 Special Interest Networks

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ABCD Data Schema

Access to Biological Collection Data:

Data schema for all types of primary biodiversity data (living/preserved/observational, botanical/zoological/bacterial/viral, marine/terrestrial)

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) based can be consumed by humans and machines

Highly complex, hierarchical

Version 2.06b: 840 leaf elements (+ 260 attributes)

Extendable (plug-in slot for additional information)

standard (currently version 2.06)

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ABCD: General Parts

Metadata (dataset-wide)-Dataset title & description -IPR statements-Contact persons-Links to additional resources

Record-level data-Gathering/observation Event-Locality details-Determination(s)-Multimedia documents-References-Notes, additional facts

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ABCD: Specialised Portions

Specimen Unit: Acquisition, Accession, Peparation, Duplicate Distribution, Type Status

Herbarium Unit: Loan Information

Botanical Garden Unit: Location in Garden, Hardiness, Lineage, Cultivation, Planting Date

Other Specialised Subtrees forObservationsCulture CollectionsMycological UnitsZoological UnitsPaleontological UnitsPlant Genetic Resources

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ABCD: Extensions

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Current ABCD Extensions

Extension for Geosciences (ABCD-EFG)

DNA Bank Network/GGBN (ABCD-DNA)

Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID)

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BioCASe Provider Software (PyWrapper)

Implementation of the BioCASe protocol

Can be used with any XML data schema (ABCD, DarwinCore, ABCD-EFG, ABCD-DNA)

Works with most SQL-compliant databases (Access, MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, Firebird, Oracle, FoxPro, Sybase)

Platform independent

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Thanks for your attention!

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