1. GAIA RESOURCES
Waminals
Species Databases, Mungeing, Maps and Drupal
Kehan Harman
Gaia Resources
Andrew Rowe, Morgan Strong
Western Australian Museum
Presented at Drupal WA Meetup, 2/10/2012

2. OVERVIEW
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What do we have?
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What do we want?
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How do we get it?

3. WHAT DO WE HAVE?
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Collections

4. WHAT DO WE HAVE?
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Data(bases)

5. ●
Just like children
Started out similar but grew up to be
WHAT DO WE HAVE?
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totally different

6. WHAT DO WE HAVE?
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Consultants
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Curators
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Knowledge

7. WHAT DO WE WANT?
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Data Available ●
Be able to
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To the right identify species
people ●
Minimise
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Updated regularly duplication of
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Maps effort
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Related Species

8. HOW DO WE GET IT?
● Data exchange format
● DarwinCore
– DublinCore for biology
● Global Initialitves
● Data Mungeing
● Pentaho Data
Integration
● http://kettle.pentaho.com

9. Munge Munge Munge
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Google Refine?
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Pentaho
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Connect to SQL
Server
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Transformations
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Validations

10. Munge Munge Munge
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Google Refine?
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Pentaho
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Connect to SQL
Server
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Transformations
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Validations

11. HOW DO WE GET IT?
● Drupal Modules
● Core
– Fields
● Contrib
– Drush, drush, drush
– Features
– Migrate
– Geofield
– Openlayers
– Views
– Rules
– Flag
– Display Suite

12. ID Tool
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Species Profiles in
a node type
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Attribute field
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(hook_field_info)
– Field Name
– Field Value

13. Adding Value
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Collection is ●
Curators check
dynamic identifications
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Identifications ●
Correct where
change necessary
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Names change

14. Adding Value
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Node type for ●
Geofield to store
specimens spatial data
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Taxonomy for ●
http://drupal.org/
names project/geofield

15. Migrations
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Base class to define
a migration
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Run Pentaho
– exec();
– escapeshellcmd();
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Import Names
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Import Specimens

16. Migrations
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Dynamic Migration
● Extend DynamicMigration
● MigrationBase::registerMigration();

17. Migrations
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Gotchas ●
Feeds?
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modulename.info ●
Migrate more
– files[]=my_custom flexible vs
_migration.inc ●
Store hash of
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Don't believe data
everything you
find in a
database
– Eg Date Changed

18. OpenLayers
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Customisable map layers
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Google
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OpenStreetMap
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Mapbox
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http://drupal.org/project/
openlayers

19. OpenLayers
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Map ● Gotchas
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Center & Bounds ● Define a map per
view
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Layers & Styles ● Expose view's output
– External Sources in that map
– Data in the site ● Try MapBox & TileMill
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Behaviors ● developmentseed
– Popup
– Geolocation
– Draw

22. ●
Views Hacks
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Flag
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Custom module

23. Conclusions
Drupal ready for spatial data? Yes
Do I like the Migrate module? Yes
Do I like Pentaho? Yes
Did I have any trouble?
What's my favourite module? Features
Or maybe drush
Or maybe views
~$ drush fe waminals node:species_factsheet taxonomy:taxon_name
views_view:waminals* dependencies:openlayers
~$ git diff
~$ git commit
~$ git push

24. QUESTIONS?
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If you want to know more, please contact me
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Blog article coming
kehan@gaiaresources.com.au
@kehan
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Web site:
www.gaiaresources.com.au