OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline for natural history data

By

Berendsohn, Walter G., 1965-
Güntsch, Anton

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

209

Pages

47-54

Subjects

ABCD , BioCASe , biodiversity informatics , Collections , EDM , ESE , Europeana , GBIF , Multimedia , Natural history , OpenUp!

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.209.3179

 

Abstract

Multimedia data held by Natural History Museums and Universities are presently not readily accessible, even within the natural history community itself. The EU project OpenUp! is an effort to mobilise scientific biological multimedia resources and open them to a wider audience using the EUROPEANA data standards and portal. The connection between natural history and EUROPEANA is accomplished using well established BioCASe and GBIF technologies. This is complemented with a system for data quality control, data transformation and semantic enrichment. With this approach, OpenUp! will provide at least 1,1 Million multimedia objects to EUROPEANA by 2014. Its lean infrastructure is sustainable within the natural history community and will remain functional and effective in the post-project phase.