Missouri Botanical Garden Open Conference Systems, TDWG 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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Hands-On AnnoSys – Managing Annotations Online
Lutz Suhrbier, Okka Tschöpe

Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
Date: 2013-11-01 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Last modified: 2013-10-08

Abstract


The web software implementation of AnnoSys (https://annosys.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/) consists of a web application and various web services providing management functionalities for online annotations of structured scientific data records. The web software is based on a data repository that stores the annotations created by users and the corresponding, annotated data records in their original version. The user-friendly, desktop-oriented user interface is based on the Eclipse Remote Application Platform (RAP). The web application provides an interface to seamlessly integrate AnnoSys into typical workflows of biodiversity data portals and data providers like GBIF or BioCASE. In addition, a SPARQL endpoint, Linked Open Data and specific RESTful web services permit third party applications or services to access or exchange annotation context data with the data repository. Annotation data is exchanged using the W3C Open Annotation Data Model (RDF).

This computer demo will showcase different aspects of the AnnoSys annotation workflow from a user's perspective as well as from a third party's data portal, application or service perspective. Thus, starting with a brief introduction of the AnnoSys interface for data portal integration, the basic steps for researchers and expert users to edit, manage, publish and discover annotations according to specific search criteria is shown. Further on, the integrated message service informing curators or scientists on annotation status changes for a specific subset of specimen records will be presented. Finally, different functions of the web services like searching, accessing or retrieving annotation context data will be demonstrated with regard to their integration into third party applications.