Missouri Botanical Garden Open Conference Systems, TDWG 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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BioCASe Provider Software & BioCASe Monitor Service
Falko Gloeckler

Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
Date: 2013-10-30 11:10 AM – 11:20 AM
Last modified: 2013-10-05

Abstract


Abstract: In distributed data networks it is highly advantageous to use common standard schemas for data provision to aggregating data portals like Europeana, as every partner might have an individual data model. The BioCASe Provider Software (BPS) is a web-based middleware which provides the possibility to map a SQL database to conceptual XML data schemas like ABCD (Access to Biological Collection Data). It offers a web-interface which can be harvested by the aggregators by using the BioCASe Protocol for communication. The underlying individual databases do not need any structural changes and can be used as before.

To facilitate monitoring progress in data provision in the network of numerous data sources, the BioCASe Monitor Service (BMS) provides customizable overviews, important metadata and links to the data sources and details. The BMS also uses the BioCASe Protocol and thus it is able to request information from the data source. It allows for (1) counting the contents in datasources. (2) checking of data mappings with a focus on the structure, plausibility and completeness, and (3) verifying compliance of provided data.