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Applying Taxonomic Intelligenceto Digitization Initiatives
Translating the Value of the Research LibraryInformation Futures Institute
October 27. 2007Cathy Norton
MBLWHOI Library DirectorDeputy Director Biodiversity Heritage Library
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TOPICS
• Biodiversity Heritage Libraries• Open Content Alliance, Principles • Internet Archive Partner• Northeast Regional Digitizing Center @Boston
Public Library• Taxonomic Intelligence- modernizing the literature
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NMFS - 1871
MBL - 1888
WHOI - 1930
USGS - 1960
SEA - 1971
WHRC - 1985
Woods Hole Scientific Community
This library serves the MBL, WHOI, USGS, NMFS, SEA, WHRC,
and other scientific groups in the area.
Facing a new dynamic phase
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The vision
Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command. The page contains the scientific name of the species, a pictorial or genomic presentation of the primary type specimen on which its name is based, and a summary of its diagnostic traits. The page opens out directly or by linkage with other databases such as ARKive, Ecoport, and GenBank. It comprises a summary of everything known about the species’ genome, proteome, geographic distribution, phylogenetic position, habitat, ecological relationships, and, not least, its perceived practical importance for humanity.
E. O. Wilson, 2003.
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Vision
Build a Digital Open Access Library for Biodiversity Literature
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Meetings in Colorado,2005
London, 2005 laboratories and libraries
Washington BHL 2006
Simultaneous Meetings in Woods Hole for BHL& EOL 2006
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Members• American Museum of Natural History• Botany Library- Harvard• British Natural History Museum, UK• Field Museum*• MBLWHOI Library*• Missouri Botanical Gardens*• Museum of Comparative Zoology-Harvard*• New York Botanical Gardens• Royal Botanical Gardens @ Kew ,UK• Smithsonian Museum of Natural History*
– University of Illinois, contributing member– EOL Founding INstitution
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Why BHL now ?
• Legacy Taxonomic Literature available in museums has limited access
• Much of it is rare
• Systematic literature depends on the historic literature
• The cited half-life of natural history is longer than that of any other scientific domain (TAXA TOY)Pre 1923
• 90% of Biodiversity Information is in these libraries
• 90% of Biodiversity is in 3rd world countries like Africa and South America
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The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content.
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Principles of OCA
• The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the rights of content owners and contributors.
INTERNET ARCHIVE• Contributors will determine the terms and conditions under which their collections are
distributed and how attribution should be made.
• IA need not be obligated to accept all content that is offered to it and may give preference to that which can be made widely accessible.
•• IA will offer collection and item-level metadata of its hosted collections in a variety of formats.
• IA welcomes efforts to create and offer tools (including finding aids, catalogs, and indexes) that will enhance the usability of the materials in the archive.
• Copies of IA collections will reside in multiple archives internationally to ensure their long-term preservation and accessibility to all.
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Name:
BioDiversity Heritage Library
Wiki- for all involved
Web Presence! Where to begin?
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NAME of Consortium -
BioDiversity Heritage Library
Web Presence!
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In the end… simplicity…• http://bhl.si.edu/
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• BHL invited to be a part of the EOL project.
• EOL - build one web page for each known species… 1.8 million!
• Alfred P. Sloan and Macarthur Foundations
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Principles of OCA
• The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the rights of content owners and contributors.
INTERNET ARCHIVE• Contributors will determine the terms and conditions under which their collections are
distributed and how attribution should be made.
• IA need not be obligated to accept all content that is offered to it and may give preference to that which can be made widely accessible.
•• IA will offer collection and item-level metadata of its hosted collections in a variety of formats.
• IA welcomes efforts to create and offer tools (including finding aids, catalogs, and indexes) that will enhance the usability of the materials in the archive.
• Copies of IA collections will reside in multiple archives internationally to ensure their long-term preservation and accessibility to all.
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Northeast Digitization Center• Boston Public Library
– Space infrastructure• 10 Scanning Stations• .10 ¢per page• 50 Books per day• Journals- metadata,foldouts• Transportation
– ILL deliverymoving company15 rolling carts per trip
Cathy Norton, Bernie Margolis, Brewster Kale
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Economies of Scale• North East Regional Digitization
Center• Agreements made with the Boston
Public Library to Include the Boston Library Consortium and NE BHL members.
• Smithsonian and Library of Congress
• Field Museum of Ill• BNH UK and Kew UK*
Barbara Preece, Exec Director, BLC
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10 scribes
BPL
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Biology Digitization Projects Problems, Dilemmas,Puzzles,Difficulties
• Copyright - Pre 1923, 1923-1964, orphan works, out-of-print– Stanford University Copyright Renewal Database
• Permissions• Collaboration with publisher, societies, institutions, etc.• Duplicates, journals 85,000 - 14,000 BID LIST• Monographs, collection analysis-- Ref Works
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Name Changes over Time
Taxonomic Intelligence
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“All accumulated information of a species is tied to a scientific name, a name that serves as a link between what has been learned in the past and what we today add to the body of knowledge.”
~ Grimaldi & Engel, 2005, Evolution of the Insects
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• Information about named groups (taxa) of organisms (taxon-related information)
• Extends back at least 1000 years
• Books, journals, surveys• Museum specimens,
herbaria• In many languages and is
distributed
From T.E. Glover, The Fishes of Southwestern Japan, c.1870
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The challenge for contemporary DIGITAL libraries
But … names of organisms change over time
Goal:
Use one name to find the content for all names
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Names are even misspelled, such as Loligopealei
Loligo pealeiiLoligo pealiiLoligo pealei
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Homonyms and polysemes VirginiaPeoplePlacesAnimals
And of course Anorexia nervosaHabeas corpus, and Etcetera etcetera
Peranema– the fern
Peranema– the euglenid
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Libraries
PublishersMuseums
Federal Agencies
Search engines
Federated databases
Students and researchers
106000515358003371215585018700Red spotted newt
COML
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Serious challenges in federated environments
One organism
4 scientific names
4 maps
We want one map
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• Metadata – such as names – provided the power to index and search
• Classifications allowed us browse, navigate, and run hierarchical searches
Classifications
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Reconciliation – linking alternative names for the same organism
A query initiated with any name, can be expanded to all names and will unify data associated with each
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And the other issueconnecting ALL data about all organisms together?
• Data stores – mostly was not happening (despite the success of Genbank)
• Search engines – not taxonomically intelligent and missed 90%• Hyperlinks – slow, tedious, and unstable• Dynamic links – using variables, databases, and code (e.g.
micro*scope)• Federation – cluster of partners playing by the same rules (e.g.
OBIS)• Data transfer standards – rules that anyone can use (e.g. DiGIR,
TAPIR, UBDB)• API’s – spigots from databases• Aggregation (mashups) – the chosen way
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Taxonomic intelligence is the inclusion of taxonomic practices, skills and knowledge within informatics services to manage information about organisms
• All names & all Classifications ClassificationBank
• Alternative names reconciled
• Similar names disambiguated
• Exploit hierarchies to browse and search, build a comprehensive classification
• Improve performance with federated systems
• Read documents, web sites, databases and taxonomically indexing the content
• Create a unified portal to information about organisms on the internet
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Taxonomically intelligent aggregation technology builds portals to distribute information about
organisms
• There are many resources out there, but no single comprehensive resource for species information
• Rather than building another big database, we can create a new way to link existing information using an aggregation portal
• This places little or no burden on data providers
• Protecting ownership and diversity of initiatives
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uBioRSS Taxonomically Intelligent RSS Feed Aggregator
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MBL WHOI Library –Woods Hole authors’publications
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MBL WHOI Library –Woods Hole species publications
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Taxonomically intelligent scientific text parsing
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Taxonomically intelligent scientific text parsing
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Taxonomic intelligence works miracles
• It will benefit any initiative that uses distributed and heterogeneous information about biology
• Distributed content on the same species can be drawn together because different names will be standardized through reconciliation
• We can read documents, find names, catalog and taxonomically index documents
• Produce a framework around which we can organize and assembleremote and local content
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“Taxonomic intelligence”enhances
search
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• Documents go to Internet Archive for OCR and storage
• The documents are added to the BHL collection
• uBio checks the BHL collection for new documents
• The documents are scanned for names
• TaxonFinder adds new strings to Namebank
• Document markup with anchors
• TaxonFinder adds all namebankIDs to Taxonomic Index
• This index is called upon by various applications...
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Biological Data Revolution
Biomedical Knowledge Biodiversity Knowledge
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Scientific Names
No Complete List of Scientific Names
112,133 741,872�
49,382*
*Scientific Names ≠ Species
Published Variants
Escherichia coli
Objective SynonymsBacterium coliBacillus coli
Mis-spellings
Escheria coli
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Taxonomic Knowledge
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Data, Data, Everywhere
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The ‘biopipes’ concept
BIOPIPESBIOPIPES
NomenclatorZoologicus
Then, dragged the functions (pipes) you wanted onto your desktop
get data blast get tree get matching clade name
get ITIS preferred name
GoogleEarth
get all names
reconciled search
myEoL page
get subset ofEoL species site
Original publicationinformation
Get originaldescription
And, of course, saved the functionality to apply to the next data
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Proceeding Boldly
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ProgressMID 2007 --July• EoL funds started to flow
By - MID 2008• EOL Informatics Teams--Core bioinformatics infrastructure
(Taxonomic Intelligence and high priority marine modules of the Universal Biodiversity Data Bus) will be in place
• BioPipes for OBIS, BOLD, GENBANK, EoL, BHL
• List of most marine genera
• EoL with agreement show content from FishBase, SeaLifeBase, CephBase etc.
• RSS feeds and other alerts established to inform interested parties of new content
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Progress
• BHL• 10 Scribes installed in Boston
– MBL/ Harvard/SI/ BNH/MOBOT/Field Museum all scanning
– AMNH/NYBG will use NY PUBLIC– Close to 2 million pages- AS OF NOV 07
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What role will librariesplay once the scanning is
done?
Will you be negotiators like you are now with serials?
Public domain publications restricted for EVER by contract or open?
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Road map
• Be a community• Be a working environment• Be creative• Become and Informatics Center with scientific
appointments.• Think translation not transactions!• Stay alive professionally
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AcknowledgmentsNeil SarkarDavid RemsenDavid PattersonDiane Rielinger
Martin KalfatovicTom GarnetGraham HigleyConnie Rinaldo
A.W. Mellon FoundationAlfred P Sloan Foundation
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation