Abstract
Multimedia data held by Natural History Museums and Universities are presently not readily accessible, even within the natural history community itself. The EU project OpenUp! is an effort to mobilise scientific biological multimedia resources and open them to a wider audience using the EUROPEANA data standards and portal. The connection between natural history and EUROPEANA is accomplished using well established BioCASe and GBIF technologies. This is complemented with a system for data quality control, data transformation and semantic enrichment. With this approach, OpenUp! will provide at least 1,1 Million multimedia objects to EUROPEANA by 2014. Its lean infrastructure is sustainable within the natural history community and will remain functional and effective in the post-project phase.
Highlights
The vast majority of global collections of biological organisms and images of organisms are held by institutions such as natural history museums and universities, in the realm of natural sciences
We are fully aware of the problems of semantic mapping of metadata, especially with the taxonomic concepts represented by the name (e.g. Geoffroy and Berendsohn 2003). Though this is not satisfying from a scientific view, we still posit that exposing natural history object information to a hugely enlarged audience will help both the data providers as well as the users
Improving the content with regard to data quality and usability is the main item in the OpenUp! budget
Summary
Academic editor: Vladimir Blagoderov | Received 2 April 2012 | Accepted 13 July 2012 | Published 20 July 2012 Citation: Berendsohn WG, Güntsch A (2012) OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline for natural history data. Academic editor: Vladimir Blagoderov | Received 2 April 2012 | Accepted 13 July 2012 | Published 20 July 2012 Citation: Berendsohn WG, Güntsch A (2012) OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline for natural history data. In: Blagoderov V, Smith VS (Ed) No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections.
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