Ontologies and Linked Open Data in theLifeWatch Greece Research Infrastructureymark_em
We present our work in the LifeWatchGreece infrastructure (ESFRI) on providing a conceptual interpretation of biodiversity datasets, with focus on a detailed, comprehensive modelling of the biological observation processes itself and its products. In the complex and heterogeneous biodiversity domain the data providers usually use their own schemata to describe their data which are mainly based on vocabularies of terms (e.g., Darwin Core) that describe the domain of interest through a column-based structure. One of the disadvantages of such a flat structure is that they leave implicit information/associations that characterize the domain entities to the user intuition, hampering the access and retrieval of, not only data, but also knowledge. To face such an issue, we adopted an ontological approach based on the CRM family of semantic models such as CRM-sci and MarineTLO. The first results, through a strong empirical verification via real data, show that these semantic models that offer high-level abstractions through classes and properties: i) capture and enhance the formal representation of Darwin Core records, providing an unambiguous representation of facts that characterize the underlying domain, ii) elicit tacit knowledge and add expressivity and semantic structure to the domain entities, increasing the expressive power and automated access to relevant data of the research process and iii) enable for mechanical integration of factual knowledge of information from other sources (WoRMS, FishBase and SeaLifeBase were considered) successfully, empowering the building of a global knowledge network for the biodiversity domain, for the purpose of supporting the integration of data and models.
Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data.
DARIAH / Biblissima Summer School, 4-8 July 2017, Le Mans, France.
5th and last day, July 8th – Digital representation and data accuracy for Humanities.
Humanities at Scale and Dariah-EU.
Nicolas Larrousse – Research officer, TGIR Huma-Num.
Abstract: https://bvh.hypotheses.org/3330#resume-NLarousse
Stronger together: community initiatives in journal managementJisc
There has been a recent growth of initiatives to address common problems regarding current and long-term access to e-journal content. Jisc is at the forefront of many of these with the close participation and active input of educational institutions.
This session aims to summarise the current state of key themes with pointers to future directions of areas such as sustainability, the move towards e-only environments, and shared consortia approaches. It will provide an overview and panel discussion on developing the supporting infrastructure to meet the needs of users. The discussion will focus on how institutions, community bodies and service providers can best work together to ensure sustainable, long-term initiatives by seeking to introduce uniformity, standardisation and collaboration to an even greater extent.
The session will introduce two new Jisc-supported projects in this area, the Keepers Registry Extra and SafeNet initiatives, and discuss how these fit alongside existing Jisc services such as Knowledge Base+, UK LOCKSS Alliance, Journal Archives and JUSP (Journal Usage Statistics Portal). The panel will address how this catalogue of services contributes towards a coherent strategy in the management of e-journal content.
Ontologies and Linked Open Data in theLifeWatch Greece Research Infrastructureymark_em
We present our work in the LifeWatchGreece infrastructure (ESFRI) on providing a conceptual interpretation of biodiversity datasets, with focus on a detailed, comprehensive modelling of the biological observation processes itself and its products. In the complex and heterogeneous biodiversity domain the data providers usually use their own schemata to describe their data which are mainly based on vocabularies of terms (e.g., Darwin Core) that describe the domain of interest through a column-based structure. One of the disadvantages of such a flat structure is that they leave implicit information/associations that characterize the domain entities to the user intuition, hampering the access and retrieval of, not only data, but also knowledge. To face such an issue, we adopted an ontological approach based on the CRM family of semantic models such as CRM-sci and MarineTLO. The first results, through a strong empirical verification via real data, show that these semantic models that offer high-level abstractions through classes and properties: i) capture and enhance the formal representation of Darwin Core records, providing an unambiguous representation of facts that characterize the underlying domain, ii) elicit tacit knowledge and add expressivity and semantic structure to the domain entities, increasing the expressive power and automated access to relevant data of the research process and iii) enable for mechanical integration of factual knowledge of information from other sources (WoRMS, FishBase and SeaLifeBase were considered) successfully, empowering the building of a global knowledge network for the biodiversity domain, for the purpose of supporting the integration of data and models.
Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data.
DARIAH / Biblissima Summer School, 4-8 July 2017, Le Mans, France.
5th and last day, July 8th – Digital representation and data accuracy for Humanities.
Humanities at Scale and Dariah-EU.
Nicolas Larrousse – Research officer, TGIR Huma-Num.
Abstract: https://bvh.hypotheses.org/3330#resume-NLarousse
Stronger together: community initiatives in journal managementJisc
There has been a recent growth of initiatives to address common problems regarding current and long-term access to e-journal content. Jisc is at the forefront of many of these with the close participation and active input of educational institutions.
This session aims to summarise the current state of key themes with pointers to future directions of areas such as sustainability, the move towards e-only environments, and shared consortia approaches. It will provide an overview and panel discussion on developing the supporting infrastructure to meet the needs of users. The discussion will focus on how institutions, community bodies and service providers can best work together to ensure sustainable, long-term initiatives by seeking to introduce uniformity, standardisation and collaboration to an even greater extent.
The session will introduce two new Jisc-supported projects in this area, the Keepers Registry Extra and SafeNet initiatives, and discuss how these fit alongside existing Jisc services such as Knowledge Base+, UK LOCKSS Alliance, Journal Archives and JUSP (Journal Usage Statistics Portal). The panel will address how this catalogue of services contributes towards a coherent strategy in the management of e-journal content.
Presented by Chris Higgins at the Co-Design Workshop, Machynlleth, 16 October 2014. Half-way through a 4-year project to enable "citizen scientists" to use smartphones to upload crucial scientific data, this presentation shows the current state of progress on the COBWEB project.
Presentation to meeting, Heraklion, 4th June 2014 on constructing a marine virtual laboratory from the bottom up in the context of LifeWatch. Covers:
- Constructing LifeWatch – reminders of what we are doing
- Sourcing the right ingredients - The “Service Network” idea
- Steps towards building Virtual Laboratories.
Slides for a keynote presentation to the EGI Technical Forum, 15th September 2010, Amsterdam on the construction challenges facing the LifeWatch research infrastructure.
Global Research Infrastructures for Biodiversity and Ecosystems ResearchAlex Hardisty
Introduction to research infrastructures for biodiversity and ecosystems research, and their global importance to support modern research. Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are a unifying use case for interoperability. We are all collectively responsible for research infrastructure.
Mapping Research Infrastructures with the ENVRI Reference ModelAlex Hardisty
Describes work done by the EC FP7 ENVRI project (http://www.envri.eu/) on understanding the common requirements of ESFRI environmental research infrastructures, and developing a "reference model" to support a common language of communication and understanding between these vastly different communities of environmental scientists
Approach and outcome of the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL) projectAlex Hardisty
Describes what we set out to do, what we achieved, and some of the lessons learnt during the BioVeL project. This presentation was given at the BioVeL final event "BioVeL In Practice and In Future", Paris, 13th November 2014
Data accessibility and the role of informatics in predicting the biosphereAlex Hardisty
The variety, distinctiveness and complexity of life – biodiversity in other words and by implication the ecosystems in which it is situated – is our life support system. It is absolutely essential and more important than almost everything else but it is typically taken for granted. Today’s big societal challenges – food and water security, coping with environmental change and aspects of human health – are beyond the abilities of any one individual or research group to solve. Solving them depends not only on collaboration to deliver the appropriate scientific evidence but increasingly on vast amounts of data from multiple sources (environmental, taxonomic, genomic and ecological) gathered by manual observation and automated sensors, digitisation, remote sensing, and genetic sequencing. In April 2012 we called the biodiversity and ecosystems research communities to arms to formulate a consensus view on establishing an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of the ever-increasing volumes of biological data. We published the whitepaper: “A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities” that has since been viewed more than 24,000 times. We envisage a shared and maintained multi-purpose network of computationally-based processing services sitting on top of an open data domain. By open data domain we mean data that is accessible i.e., published, registered and linked. BioVeL, pro-iBiosphere, ViBRANT and other FP7 funded projects have all explored aspects of this vision.
Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013 - Introduction and ScopeAlex Hardisty
Outlines the scope and expected outcomes of the conference event "Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013" (BIH2013) that took place in Rome, 3-6th September 2013
The BlueBRIDGE approach to collaborative researchBlue BRIDGE
Gianpaolo Coro, ISTI-CNR, at BlueBRIDGE workshop on "Data Management services to support stock assessement", held during the Annual ICES Science conference 2016
Digital tools and training for environmental sciences in AustraliaChantal Huijbers
Short introduction to a few digital platforms developed in Australia for biological and environmental data discovery and analysis (ALA, TERN, BCCVL, ecocloud), and the underpinning training program for these tools, ecoEd. Presented at Charles Darwin University on 20 November 2018 as part of the Data Readiness training for environmental researchers.
Arkady Zaslavsky, Charith Perera, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Sensing as a Service and Big Data, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC), Bangalore, India, July, 2012, Pages 21-29 (8)
BioVeL (Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory) is an e-laboratory that supports research on biodiversity using large amounts of data from cross-disciplinary sources.
Vince smith-delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age-notextVince Smith
Smith, V.S. 2013. Delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age. Hellenic Botanical Society, Thessaloniki, Greece, 3-6 Oct. 2013. [Delivered via video link through Google Hangouts]
Presented by Chris Higgins at the Co-Design Workshop, Machynlleth, 16 October 2014. Half-way through a 4-year project to enable "citizen scientists" to use smartphones to upload crucial scientific data, this presentation shows the current state of progress on the COBWEB project.
Presentation to meeting, Heraklion, 4th June 2014 on constructing a marine virtual laboratory from the bottom up in the context of LifeWatch. Covers:
- Constructing LifeWatch – reminders of what we are doing
- Sourcing the right ingredients - The “Service Network” idea
- Steps towards building Virtual Laboratories.
Slides for a keynote presentation to the EGI Technical Forum, 15th September 2010, Amsterdam on the construction challenges facing the LifeWatch research infrastructure.
Global Research Infrastructures for Biodiversity and Ecosystems ResearchAlex Hardisty
Introduction to research infrastructures for biodiversity and ecosystems research, and their global importance to support modern research. Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are a unifying use case for interoperability. We are all collectively responsible for research infrastructure.
Mapping Research Infrastructures with the ENVRI Reference ModelAlex Hardisty
Describes work done by the EC FP7 ENVRI project (http://www.envri.eu/) on understanding the common requirements of ESFRI environmental research infrastructures, and developing a "reference model" to support a common language of communication and understanding between these vastly different communities of environmental scientists
Approach and outcome of the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL) projectAlex Hardisty
Describes what we set out to do, what we achieved, and some of the lessons learnt during the BioVeL project. This presentation was given at the BioVeL final event "BioVeL In Practice and In Future", Paris, 13th November 2014
Data accessibility and the role of informatics in predicting the biosphereAlex Hardisty
The variety, distinctiveness and complexity of life – biodiversity in other words and by implication the ecosystems in which it is situated – is our life support system. It is absolutely essential and more important than almost everything else but it is typically taken for granted. Today’s big societal challenges – food and water security, coping with environmental change and aspects of human health – are beyond the abilities of any one individual or research group to solve. Solving them depends not only on collaboration to deliver the appropriate scientific evidence but increasingly on vast amounts of data from multiple sources (environmental, taxonomic, genomic and ecological) gathered by manual observation and automated sensors, digitisation, remote sensing, and genetic sequencing. In April 2012 we called the biodiversity and ecosystems research communities to arms to formulate a consensus view on establishing an infrastructure to improve the accessibility of the ever-increasing volumes of biological data. We published the whitepaper: “A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities” that has since been viewed more than 24,000 times. We envisage a shared and maintained multi-purpose network of computationally-based processing services sitting on top of an open data domain. By open data domain we mean data that is accessible i.e., published, registered and linked. BioVeL, pro-iBiosphere, ViBRANT and other FP7 funded projects have all explored aspects of this vision.
Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013 - Introduction and ScopeAlex Hardisty
Outlines the scope and expected outcomes of the conference event "Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013" (BIH2013) that took place in Rome, 3-6th September 2013
The BlueBRIDGE approach to collaborative researchBlue BRIDGE
Gianpaolo Coro, ISTI-CNR, at BlueBRIDGE workshop on "Data Management services to support stock assessement", held during the Annual ICES Science conference 2016
Digital tools and training for environmental sciences in AustraliaChantal Huijbers
Short introduction to a few digital platforms developed in Australia for biological and environmental data discovery and analysis (ALA, TERN, BCCVL, ecocloud), and the underpinning training program for these tools, ecoEd. Presented at Charles Darwin University on 20 November 2018 as part of the Data Readiness training for environmental researchers.
Arkady Zaslavsky, Charith Perera, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Sensing as a Service and Big Data, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC), Bangalore, India, July, 2012, Pages 21-29 (8)
BioVeL (Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory) is an e-laboratory that supports research on biodiversity using large amounts of data from cross-disciplinary sources.
Vince smith-delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age-notextVince Smith
Smith, V.S. 2013. Delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age. Hellenic Botanical Society, Thessaloniki, Greece, 3-6 Oct. 2013. [Delivered via video link through Google Hangouts]
I gave this presentation to the Sun PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) in San Francisco, 2009. It gives an overview of the EU co-funded Planets digital preservation project and includes some early discussion of the plans to create a not-for-profit organisation to carry the technology forward beyond the end of the project in mid 2010.
A Manifesto for the Digital Shift in Research LibrariesTorsten Reimer
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Text (personal views position statement) to accompany presentation on what research infrastructures really need for data, XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011, Edinburgh
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Similar to BioVeL at IBERGRID e-Infrastructures and biodiversity workshop, 19th September 2013, Madrid (20)
Presentation about the recommendations coming from our review of the challenges and priorities facing biodiversity informatics over the coming decade. Linked to this paper published in BMC Ecology: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-13-16
Personal views on what Research Infrastructures really need for data - a more comprehensive version of the 5 minute presentation I have at XLDB-Europe, 8-10th June 2011 in Edinburgh
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
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See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
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👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
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Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
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Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with Parameters
BioVeL at IBERGRID e-Infrastructures and biodiversity workshop, 19th September 2013, Madrid
1. A PILOT IMPLEMENTATION INVESTIGATING
LIFEWATCH IDEAS
Alex Hardisty
Coordinator, Cardiff University
e-Infrastructures and Biodiversity Workshop
IBERGRID, 19th September 2013, Madrid
Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory
An e-Infrastructure and e-Science environment supporting research
on biodiversity
2. What is a Virtual e-Laboratory?
• Like a physical laboratory
– A place “inside computers”
where you can analyse data
and do digital experiments
– Like a physical lab, it’s
equipped with everything
you need
• Project investigates:
– Workflows approach
– Service network approach
– Human aspects
3. Part of a workflow to study the
ecological niche of the Horseshoe crab
(Limulus polyphemus)
Workflows, pipelines and other applications
are built from “services”
• Workflows allow to run studies and
experiments to process vast
amounts of data, repeatedly
– Select and apply successive “services”
(data analysis and processing steps)
– Import data from own research and/or
from existing public sources
– Choose input parameters
• Access a library of workflows
– Re-using existing workflows improves
efficiency by reducing research time
and overhead expenses
4. Public groups
– Publishing
workflows and
results
Private groups
– Local
materials
– Intra-project
work and
collaborations
8700 members, 318 groups, 2625
workflows, 674 files, 276 packs
Workflows must be shareable and
discoverable www.myexperiment.org
5. A grouping of Web services having related
functionality is called a ‘Service Set’
Taxonomy Metagenomics
and
metagenetics
Ecological
niche and
population
modelling
Ecosystem
functioning
and valuation
Mapping,
visualization,
transformation
Catalogue of
Life name
lookup
QIIME ENM
(openModeller)
Get meteor-
ological data
Spatio-temporal
visualization
GBIF
occurrence
data retrieval
BOLD PopBio Weather to
Biome-BGC
data
GeoServer
WMS/WFS/WCS
GBIF
ChecklistBank
BlastX Biome-BGC
monte carlo
Raster Diff
WoRMS aphia
name
Sequence
(OTU)
clustering
Biome-BGC
sensitivity
anal.
ISO Country
Code
PESI name Functional
diversity
Data-Model
harmonization
DwC-A to JSON
shim
Checklist
Cross-mapping
Taxonomic
diversity
Biome-BGC
CARBON
DwC-A to CSV
shim
?
Taxonomy &
Systematics
Ecological niche and
population modelling
Ecosystem functioning
and valuation
?
Genes-Species-Specimens
(multi-scale linkages)
Citizen Science &
Observations
Mapping, visualization and
transformation services
6. Service sets driven by science and policy needs
• CO2 emissions continuously increasing
– 10 GtC in 2010; Sequestration is the sustainable
process to mitigate the effects
• Over the past 50 years, humans have changed
ecosystems
– resulting in a substantial and largely irreversible
loss of biodiversity
• Invasions of alien species
– A leading cause of biodiversity loss and related
economic damages. They degrade ecosystem
services, generate human health problems and
impact outdoor recreation.
“transportation with
ships is a high risk to
spread the species
to these spots”
Stelzer et al 2013
Source: NOAA
7. Service sets driven by science and policy needs
• CO2 emissions continuously increasing
– 10 GtC in 2010; Sequestration is the sustainable
process to mitigate the effects
• Over the past 50 years, humans have changed
ecosystems
– resulting in a substantial and largely irreversible
loss of biodiversity
• Invasions of alien species
– A leading cause of biodiversity loss and related
economic damages. They degrade ecosystem
services, generate human health problems and
impact outdoor recreation.
“transportation with
ships is a high risk to
spread the species
to these spots”
Stelzer et al 2013
Source: NOAA
Modelling
ecosystem services
Modelling
CO2 sequestration
Calculating
measures of genetic diversity
Assessing adaptation
to changing conditions
Supporting processes
of conservation
Assisting invasive
species management
8. An international network connecting 2
communities: biodiversity and ICT
Discipline
Scientists
Scientific PAL
Technical PAL
Scientific and Technical Service Providers
Scientific
Requirements
Translation
Technical
Requirements
Technical
Capabilities
Scientific
Capabilities
Application
Services Team
Prioritisation
Support Centre
Training &
Issue Resolution
Service Level
Requirements
Sustainability
Community
Community
9. Secure, scalable, reliable, and well-documented
in a geographically distributed network of services
Users’ workflows and
applications
Sustained Service and
Data Providers
GBIF, CoL, ITIS, OBIS, WoRMS,
EBI, BGBM, CRIA, EoL, BHL,
ALA, etc. + many many more
Recognised and stable
Resource Providers
National, EGI.eu, PRACE,
commercial, etc.
10. Services must be discoverable
www.biodiversitycatalogue.org
A fully curated, well-founded catalogue of
Web services for biodiversity science
11. • Connecting biology and IT communities
– Distinct languages, different understandings
– Service Network approach connects them
• Supporting use cases we know today ...
– … and use cases in the future that we cannot
yet imagine
• Different Service Providers are good
(competent) at different things
• Deals with multiple jurisdictions and
supports a business model
– Leading to sustainability
Why do we need this approach?
Scientists’ perspectives
InformationTechnologists’
perspectives
Biodiversity studies & experiments
Services for biodiversity science
compose to support
ICT Technical Capabilities
ICT Technical Elements
combine to deliver
combine to support
12. Users need to be able to build and use
workflows
Technical
PAL
Science
PAL
Domain
Scientist
Taverna
Workbench
Component
Builder
Taverna
Lite / Server
Taverna Player /
Domain-Specific
Website
Workflow Visibility
Concept KnowledgeWorkflow design, compute Domain science
High Low
15. Interaction Server
Taverna Server
Server
Servers
Run time
Execution
Services
COTS Shim
Domain
Cloud
Deployment
Infrastructure
hosting, compute, storage
Workflows
Components
Catalogues &
Repositories
BioCatalogue
Services
Biodiversity
Catalogue
DataMgt
Data Mgt
Workspace
Authentication
Management
System
Local
File
Stores
Local
Data
Sets
Local Public BioVeL
Curators
Taverna
Workbench
Pro
Makers
In the
Field
Users Third Party
Channels
Interfaces
Design & Launch
tools Lite, Player, Portal
16. BioVeL is funded by the
European Commission
7th Framework Programme (FP7).
It is part of its e-Infrastructures activity.
BioVeL contributes to LifeWatch and GEO BON.
BioVeL products are free to access.
www.biovel.eu
Under FP7, the e-Infrastructures activity is part of the Research Infrastructures programme,
funded under the FP7 'Capacities' Specific Programme. It focuses on the further development
and evolution of the high-capacity and high-performance communication network (GÉANT),
distributed computing infrastructures (grids and clouds), supercomputer infrastructures,
simulation software, scientific data infrastructures, e-Science services as well as on the adoption
of e-Infrastructures by user communities.