preservation, maintanence and improvement of industrial organism.pptx
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1. Strings to things: a user-friendly
framework for data reconciliation
Nicky Nicolson, RBG Kew
@nickynicolson
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual meeting
Nairobi, Kenya / 28th September – 1 October 2015
2. Reconciliation
• Turns a string representation of an entity into
an actionable identifier.
e.g.:
Tahina spectabilis
Will reconcile to:
http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77086615-1
3.
4. Maximise reuse, two stage process
1. Standardise data
- Package of 40 plus “transformers”
- All accept a string input, produce a string
output
21. Reconciliation services on different
data types
• Specimens
– Add DwCA as a readable data store
– Collections focussed transformers & matchers
– Resolve & link specimen duplicates
• People
• Trait glossaries
24. Thanks to:
• Biodiversity Informatics team (Abigail Barker,
Matt Blissett, James Crowe, John Iacona, Rob
Turner, Alecs Gueder)
• Plant & fungal name curation team (Christine
Barker / Irina Belyaeva / Katherine Challis /
Rafael Govaerts / Paul Kirk / Heather Lindon /
Emma Williams)
• Data improvement team (Anna Lynch, Rachel
Witherow, Malin Rivers, Esther Wainwright-Deri)