OpenUp!Online demonstration of bundled

results from other workpackages (C8.4.7)

OpenUp!Work package 1

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WP 1 - Scientific Coordination, Project Management, Liaison & IPR

What do we do?o We ensure adherence of the consortium to the rules,

regulations, and financial guidelines of the project.o We coordinate the implementation of the project, monitor its

progress, guarantee timely deliverables.o We ensure high quality output with tangible impact on the

programme objectives.o We ensure liaison with GBIF, CETAF and the related

eContentPlus Projects STERNA and BHL Europe.o We support coordination of the intellectual property rights (IPR)

framework for OpenUp!o We pursuit identifying and implementing means to ensure long

term sustainability of the project.

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o Annual and progress reports, available on the OpenUp! website under http://open-up.eu/content/deliverables-and-components-pu or at EuropeanaPro at http://pro.europeana.eu/web/865683/outcomesThese reports illuminate the results of OpenUp! and monitor the activities and progress within the project.

OpenUp! Annual Meeting 2012, Museum Nationale d‘Histoire Naturelle, Paris

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o Article in International Innovation, October 2011

Project Coordinator Walter Berendsohn (BGBM Berlin) explains how the work of the OpenUp! project fits in with the existing Europeana portal and highlights how it will benefit the natural history domain and the promotion of biodiversity.

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o Important achievements

o Intellectual property rights (IPR) framework established to advice existing and new content providers on IPR issues. Report on “IPR problems and solutions for the domain of natural history objects” to be completed by the end of the project.

o Memorandum of Understanding (available by end of project), designed for consortium partners and beyond to maintain and enrich EUROPEANA with Natural History content after the end of the project funding, to support strategic plan for the long term sustainability of the project’s infrastructure.

OpenUp!Work package 2

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WP 2 - Technical Implementation

What do we do?o We provide the hardware and software for seamless, stable

and sustainable data flow from content providers to EUROPEANA.

o We manage the OpenUp! communication Web site using a ScratchPad site.

o We document the technical implementation of OpenUp! infrastructure.

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Collection Data Quality Toolkit

o OpenUp! Data Quality Toolkit User Interface and Service was specified and implemented

o RestFul Web Service for the OpenUp! Data Quality Toolkit in Java EE - a service that allows you to check endemicity data

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Harvesting and Transformation Component

o Harvesting and Transformation Component was delivered and documented

o It is a software that realizes the harvesting of ABCD metadata from the distributed data repositories of the content providers on request

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Addressing long term sustainability‐

o OpenUp! meta database ‐ was setupo It functions as a secure repository for data harvested and

transformed from content providers while delivering the ESE Extensible Markup Language records that are to be harvested by Europeana through the OAI Provider

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OAI-PMH Interface

o The OpenUp! harvesting component is used to harvest data on request from the distributed data repositories of the content providers and ingest data to the OpenUp! OAI provider

o The OAI-PMH interface is being constantly enhanced and further developed in order to let the users view and test the transformed data before it is being harvested by the target repositories

OpenUp!Work package 3

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WP 3 - Metadata Modelling and EUROPEANA Liaison

What do we do?o We ensure the compatibility of the OpenUp! metadata

provision with EUROPEANA standards.o We evaluate cooperation with the BHL project.o We do technical liaison with EUROPEANA.

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WP 3 - Metadata Modelling and EUROPEANA Liaison

• Europeana Standard Conformance and EDM contribution– Mapping between Community and EUROPEANA data

standards– Data transformation and provision– A single access point to distributed natural history

multimedia content for EUROPEANA– Build upon existing networks in the Natural History

domain:• CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities)• GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)• BioCASe (Biological Collection Access Services)

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Data provision 2012 - 2013:~ 1.5 Mio. records

Images & SoundsBotany, Zoology, Mineralogy, Anthropology …

6th largest content provider to Europeana!

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=PROVIDER:OpenUp!

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Enriched OpenUp! content in Europeanahttp://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=PROVIDER:OpenUp!

OpenUp! common names enrichment

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Linked OpenUp! content in Europeanahttp://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=PROVIDER:OpenUp!

Linking to Darwin Core Type vocabulary

Linking to Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Linked OpenUp! content in Europeanahttp://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=PROVIDER:OpenUp!

Linking to Geonames.org

OpenUp!Work package 4

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WP 4 - Zoological Community Content Provision, Metadata Catalogue and Quality Control

What do we do?o We integrate institutional and departmental base for

zoological natural history content provision to EUROPEANA.o We provide a model for the integration of content from the

areas of palaeontology and mineralogy.o We provide multimedia objects and metadata to EUROPEANA

using the OpenUp! workflow.o We provide vocabulary for zoological names.o We verify the data quality.

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Data Quality Service for Zoological Names

New features:• Parameter for selecting one or more databases • Fuzzy search extended to concept search in the Catalogue of

Life (CoL) • Implementation of the Fauna Europaea concept search• Inclusion of Dyntaxa, PBDB, and Index Fungorum into the

zoological name service of the Data Quality Toolkit

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Local Data Provision

Deliverables and components:• Local zoological data provider software and metadata

mapping functional for all content sources (list of all access point URLs, list of all connected datasources, technical information on BioCASE Provider Software).

• Furthermore - plan for content provision 3rd project year, 2 new providers with BPS (MNHN, GIT), regular update of coordination documents (GoogleDocs)

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Data Quality Enhancement Process and Data Provision

Deliverables and components:• Operational content provision (overview over number and

type of provided multimedia objects, stages in content provision, description of content).

• Furthermore - monitoring of data provision progress and data quality check (BioCASe Monitor Service, development WP4, WP7 & GBIF-D; Data Quality Toolkit, development WP2 and WP3; WP4 & WP5)

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Data Quality Enhancement Process and Data Provision

Number of multimedia objects (9 January 2014) per institution (zoology, mineralogy, anthropology and paleontology) available on the BioCASe Monitor Software and the number of objects which should be mobilized within the project according to the Description of Work (DoW).

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Final Data Quality Checking

Deliverables and components:• Data quality check feedback (quality assurance at metadata

and object level, questionnaire: “Quality Enhancement of Multimedia Objects and Associated Metadata in the Natural History Domain”, quality assurance in Europeana).

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Data Quality Service for Paleontological and Mineralogical Objects

Proof of concept for the integration model based on EFG:• 3 provider applying integration model to their

paleontological/ mineralogical content (UT-NHM, NM, GIT)• HIT was customized successfully to harvest mineralogical

content

OpenUp!Work package 5

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WP 5 - Botanical Community Content Provision, Metadata Catalogue and Quality Control

What do we do?o We integrate institutional and departmental base for

botanical natural history content provision to EUROPEANA.o We provide multimedia objects and metadata to EUROPEANA

using the OpenUp! workflow.o We provide vocabulary for botanical names.o We verify the data quality.

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Data Quality Service for Botanical Names

o Fuzzy matching functionality for the names service.o Continue to enhance the botanical names databases.

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Local data provision

o Process of metadata quality checking of additional 4,000 herbarium units

o Preparation of several thousand new images for Europeanao The herbarium image of MNHN requirement for the June

2013 harvest was completedo UT NHM published 1,980 plant images and 2,352 images of ‐

fungi specieso LANDOOE published 17,000 new pictures of Bryophyta

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Data quality enhancement process and data provision

o working on component "C5.3.2 Operational content provision (botany), review and second report"

o BGBM continued to revise and complete their datao RBGK improve the HerbCat data transfer applicationo UT NHM prepared 1,080 images for publishing‐

OpenUp!Work package 6

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WP 6 - Multilingual Metadata Enrichment Including Common Names

What do we do?o We transform scientific names into their multilingual common

names representations.o We provide a metadata model for the integration of content

from botanical and zoological common names, geographical place names and person names.

o We provide a multilingual metadata enrichment service for natural history heritage objects.

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Main Developments

o Adoption and extension of existing metadata standardso Setup of an environment for harvesting and parsingo Reviewing of available reference information systemso Setup of a caching environment for the accumulated

reference informationo Integration of validation and enrichment layerso Multilingual content (acquiring and integrating moreo common names sources)

OpenUp!Work package 7:

Helpdesk Facility and Extending the Network

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WP 7 - Helpdesk Facility and Extending the Network

What do we do?o Setting up a Helpdesk Facilityo Find, analyse, and enrich Documentationo Extend the Network of OpenUp! partnerso The Work Package 7 is lead by RMCA, partners are: ZFMK,

RBINS, GBIF, UCPH, UH, NBGB, MNHN, and UT-NHM. Dissemination work has been done in close collaboration with the NM and the Outreach and Dissemination Group.

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Helpdesk Facility

o Setting up a Helpdesk at http://helpdesk.open-up.eu with access to o OpenUp! documentationo Documentation from other

projects in the Natural History and Cultural Domain

o FAQ-Documentationo A discussion Forumo The OpenUp! Manualo Information for new associated

partnerso Dispatching system for ques-

tions by providers and users

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Documentation

o OpenUp! documentation o http://pro.europeana.eu/web/865683/outcomes

o and the OpenUp! Manualo http://helpdesk.open-up.eu/page/openup_manual

o Documentation from other projects in the Natural History and Cultural Domain.o Analysis of documentation, gaps and plan for needed additional

documentation. Enriched + checked existing documentation in orig. language.

o Available at: http://helpdesk.open-up.eu/documentationo Or Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/groups/3762981/openup-

documentation/papers/

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Extending the Network

• List of criteria and benefits to become Open Up! associated partners established.

• Establish standard procedure for associated partners.• Two OpenUp! tutorials and training sessions for new providers

of the consortium.• Writing specific documentation for new providers:

http://helpdesk.open-up.eu/AssociatedPartners• Reaching out to possible associated partners to enlarge the

provider community and encrease the content provided to Europeana.

OpenUp!Work package 8

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WP 8 - Dissemination and Awareness

What do we do?o We disseminate the project and its content on Europeana to

the general public, educational sector and to the scientists.o We demonstrate benefits of the project on meetings and

conferences.o We inform other projects, also in other countries about

OpenUp! Project.o We disseminate the diverse activities and their results within

the project member institutions and among new participants.

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Project Website

o The project website operate on the Scratchpads platform and it is used to both internal and external communication of the project.

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Newsletter

o The OpenUp! Newsletter is regularly published twice per a year.

o The Newsletter is freely available from the project website.

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Social Media

o Social media are our tool to reach the general public.o We are using following channels: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and

Blog.

o Social media are our tool to reach the general public.o We are using following channels: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and

Blog.OpenUp! Facebook OpenUp! Flickr

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Biodiversity Library Exhibition (BLE)

o BLE is a unique platform for the dissemination of Natural History multimedia content, literature and knowledge to the public.

o Currently, four topics of BLE are published – Spices, Expeditions, Poisonous Nature and Nature at your Home.

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OpenUp! Flyer – English and German

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