Leveraging Filtered Push Technology to

Enhance Remote Taxonomic IdentificationsNico Franz1, Edward Gilbert1, Neil Cobb2 & Paul Morris3

1 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University 2 Merriam-Powell Center, Northern Arizona University 3 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

TDWD 2013 Annual Conference, Florence, Italy Biodiversity Data Quality – Issues, Methods and Tools

October 29, 2013

Currently 9 Thematic Collection Networks with 130 participating institutions

Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (NSF ADBC Program) Digitize 1 billion specimens in 10 years

UNMTAMU

ASU

DMNS

UCB

NMSU

CSU

TTU

NAU

UA

SCAN member collectionsAverage ~ 480 miles apart

SCAN digitization objectives

• Digitize 1 million records for southwestern ground-dwelling arthropods

• Produce 16,000 high-resolution images of species; promote identifications

• Leverage an interactive identification & annotation workflow via Symbiota

Gerstaeckeria porosa (LeConte, 1876) – ASUHIC0017017 Crotanius trivittatus (Champion, 1908) – ASUHIC0012067

SCAN ADBCGround-Dwelling

Arthropod Records

SCAN ADBCNon-Target Taxa

Records

SCAN ADBC Collections

SCAN Non-ADBC Broader Impact

Records

SCAN Broader Impact Collections

September, 2013: 510,262 records in SCAN

• 510,262 specimens in Symbiota• 300,984 (59%) georeferenced• 338,836 (66%) identified to species• 1,016 families• 8,056 genera• 17,538 species

Primary need: remote IDs

Deployment diagram – Symbiota & Filtered Push interaction

Source: http://wiki.filteredpush.org/wiki/FP-Medium_deployment_for_SCAN

Filtered Push3 Node

http://fp3.acis.ufl.edu/FPAnnotationProcessor-Web/

• New, remotely added identifications are grounded in the Annotation Ontology.

• FP team has developed Symbiota-integrated PHP Client Tools that record and push new annotations to the external FP infrastructure where statistics are kept.

SCAN Symbiota Portalhttp://symbiota1.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/index.php

New FP Client Tools in Symbiota

Current workings & look in SCAN

Homepage – http://symbiota1.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/index.php

Images

ID = Scarabaeidae

Image thumbnail gallery – some are insufficiently identified

ID = Epicaerus

More information – occurrence records, images – is clicks away

More information – occurrence records, images – is clicks away

Experts can log in and view a taxon-tailored IDs Needed tab

This is the scarabin need of an ID

Experts can log in and view a taxon-tailored IDs Needed tab

This is the scarabin need of an ID

Occurrence tab

Experts can log in and view a taxon-tailored IDs Needed tab

This is the scarabin need of an ID

Occurrence tab

Images tab

Adding a new identification in the Determination History tab

Scientific Name is linked to the SCAN Taxonomic Thesaurus.

The fully integrated Symbiota tab for IDs is Filtered Push-enabled

• New = current ID• Image remapping• Submission to FP

Confirmationin SCAN

Simultaneous ID recording internally (SCAN) and externally (FP)

Confirmationin SCAN

Confirmationin FP3 node

Simultaneous ID recording internally (SCAN) and externally (FP)

Annotationslist view

AO translation

Simultaneous ID recording internally (SCAN) and externally (FP)

Confirmationin FP3 node

Confirmationin SCAN

Annotationsdetail view

RDF / XMLtranslation

AO translation

Future work – 1st production-level Symbiota / FP implementation

• Optimization of SCAN "IDs Needed" user interface – thumbnail view

• Roll-out to the SCAN expert community, creation of expert profiles in FP

• Expansion beyond SCAN members, diversified notification systems

"Curculionidae" ("Calles" sp.) – ASUHIC0031695

• TDWG 2013 Symposium organizers – Antonio Mauro Saraiva

• James Hanken, Maureen Kelly & David Lowery – http://wiki.filteredpush.org/wiki/

• ASUHIC digitization team – Sangmi Lee, David Fleming, Soon Flynn, Andrew Jansen, Catherine Mercado, Joshua Persson, Sarah Shirota, Michael Shillingburg.

• NSF Award EF-1207107. "Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): a Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological Research."

Acknowledgments

http://symbiota1.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/index.php http://taxonbytes.org

https://sols.asu.edu http://symbiota.org/tiki/tiki-index.php