Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: Sala dei Continenti
Date: 2013-10-29 02:18 PM – 02:36 PM
Last modified: 2013-10-05
Abstract
In the last decade a rising number of biodiversity informatics projects and initiatives aim to complement existing human-readable User-portals with service-interfaces for machine-to-machine communication. Available services provide for example access to species occurrence and specimen data, distribution data, descriptive information, OCRed literature, as well as various computational functions.
The integration of different services in automated workflows using e-platforms has a great potential of speeding up data experiments and improve their reusability and reliability. In turn, the deployment and integration of services in workflows helps to identify particular shortcomings of the different service implementations which need to be addressed to increase their usability.
The 'Data Refinement Workflow' developed within the BioVeL project (http://www.biovel.eu) is an attempt to bring together various taxonomy-related services within a single application.
The presentation will provide insight into lessons learned during the design and implementation of the workflow and contribute to the discussion of measures to reach true interoperability of biodiversity information services.