Science Seminar Series 4 Norman Johnson

Environment Institute Science Seminar Series 2009 A virtual co-laboratory for large scale taxonomic research Presented by: Professor Norm Johnson Ohio State University

A virtual co-laboratory for large-scale taxonomic research Norman F. Johnson The Ohio State University urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:3508C4FF-F027-445F-8417-90AB4AB8FE0D

Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Goals & Focus
new collections of specimens
phylogenetic analysis
species description of a “major” taxonomic group

Focal taxon: Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera)
Biology
egg parasitoids of insects, spiders
egg-larval parasitoids of gall flies
1 family, 4840 “known” species

Project participants
Australia : A. Austin, M. Dowton, J. Jennings, S. Thompson
Brazil : A.P. Aguiar, B. Coelho
Canada : L. Masner, C. Darling, M. Yoder, A. Guidotti
Costa Rica : A. Valerio
Hungary : I. Mikó
India : Rajmohana K.
Italy: F. Bin, G. Salerno, R. Conti
New Zealand : J. Early
South Africa : S. van Noort
Taiwan: Chen S.-P.
UK : A. Polaszek
USA : L. Musetti, H. Klompen, J. Cora, S. Hemly, E. Talamas, C. Taekul, M. Buffington

Project goals: Collecting
Brazil: A.P. Aguiar
South Africa: S. van Noort
southeast Asia: D.C. Darling

Project goals: Phylogenetics
~250 genera considered valid
add/subtract about equal numbers for new genera & synonyms
preliminary work: > 70 in-group taxa, 3 genes (18S, 28S, COI)
goal: 200 in-group, 5 genes

Project goals: Taxonomy
Scelionini s. lato
extrusible, telescoping ovipositor

Infrastructure Canadian National Collection, Ottawa

Infrastructure
Taxonomic catalogs
Johnson 1992, Vlug 1995
Electronic version
Hymenoptera Name
Server
10,725 platygastroid names
218,013 hymenopteran
names

Inaugural workshop
Workshop: 5-9 Feb., 2007

Specimen Acquisition Museums Published Literature Science Taxa Characters Description Publication New Collections Taxonomic Workflow Model Taxonomic History Keys Material Examined Images Maps

Published Literature
PDF library of taxonomic publications
1,177 articles
28,213 pages
93% of total
linked to catalog
annotations

Taxon-Character Loop
specimen documentation
bar-code added
label data recorded
parsed
verbatim

specimen documentation
extended-focus imaging

Software Components
Database: Oracle
custom applications to handle data
Images
Cartograph/Archimed, Automontage
Specimage
Web servers: Apache
Scripting: Perl, JavaScript

Data/Protocol standards
specimen data: DarwinCore
specimen queries: DiGIR
character data: SDD
literature data: MODS
taxonomic concepts: TCS
taxonomic treatments: TaxonX
unique identifiers: LSIDs

Life Sciences Identifiers (LSIDs)
Globally unique identifiers for
taxonomic concepts, taxonomic names, people, publications, specimens, etc.
Retrieve data about object
Mechanism to establish identity between objects

Heptascelio lugens Kieffer: urn:lsid:biosci.ohio-state.edu:osuc_concepts:4542

Acknowledgments
PBI team: A. Austin, A. Aguiar, B. Coelho, H. Clebsch, J. Cora, C. Darling, M. Dowton, J. Early, A. Guidotti, J. Jennings, H. Klompen, L. Masner, I. Mikó, L. Musetti, A. Polaszek, Rajmohana K., C. Taekul, E. Talamas, S. Thompson, A. Valerio, S. van Noort, M. Yoder
National Science Foundation (Grant DEB-0614764)

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