Missouri Botanical Garden Open Conference Systems, TDWG 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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Sustaining a biodiversity data infrastructure: OpenUp!, BioCASE, and GBIF
Walter G. Berendsohn

Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: America del Nord (Theatre I)
Date: 2013-10-30 11:00 AM – 11:10 AM
Last modified: 2013-10-05

Abstract


The EU-funded OpenUp! project has used established BioCASE technology to publish more than a million multimedia objects in the European virtual library, Europeana. The project faces the challenge of sustaining the infrastructure beyond the financed project phase (ending February 2014). In the case of OpenUp!, this is greatly facilitated by the fact that the established data pipeline also directly supports data publication in community networks like BioCASE and GBIF. The presentation outlines the pieces of the infrastructure that need to be sustained and the solutions found to ensure the continuity of the community services offered.