The document discusses two pilot projects in London and the North East of England that are investigating mapping underground utility assets more accurately. The pilots are being led by the Greater London Authority and Ordnance Survey, and are focusing on uses like avoiding utility strikes and improving project efficiency. Findings from the pilots will help inform whether to proceed with a national underground asset register. Key barriers to data sharing that the pilots are examining include issues around data discoverability, access, quality, interoperability, and security.
This document summarizes information about the Jisc Pathfinder open access projects at UCL, Nottingham, and Newcastle universities. It provides details about the size and research output of each university. The aims of the Pathfinder projects are to advocate for open access policies, manage publications and APC payments, and ensure compliance with REF open access requirements. It outlines developments like the REF open access policy and a Jisc review of readiness. Challenges include monitoring compliance across large institutions and managing the technical and cultural changes required.
Capgemini is involved in two ongoing Mars exploration missions: the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), operational since 2012, and the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (INSIGHT) mission, scheduled to launch in 2018. Capgemini contributes to these missions by developing and operating the mission control centers for two instruments on MSL - CHEMCAM and SAM - and the main seismometer instrument, SEIS, on INSIGHT. The control centers acquire, process and distribute instrument data to scientists.
This document discusses establishing a network of validation sites across the UK to validate Earth observation data. Each proposed site would be around 50 square kilometers and centered on a secure location equipped with instrumentation like flux towers, spectrometers, and cameras to collect data. Standardized methods and tools would be used across sites to allow comparisons. Examples of existing validation sites using Landsat data to monitor changes in Turkey's Tuz Gölü lake over decades are provided. The need to understand different levels of environmental complexity for planning remote sensing analyses is also cited.
Digitization and Strategies for Sharing Museum Collections OnlineJessie Christian
This document discusses the Ringling Museum's digitization efforts and strategies for sharing collections online. It outlines the formation of a digitization committee with representatives from the art museum, circus museum, and library to develop a unified vision. It also describes the museum's collections management system, eMuseum platform, digitized collections, and plans to consolidate online access through the Ringling Collections Online initiative over the next 5 years.
This document provides a progress report from a workshop on the SCAR-MarBIN (Marine Biodiversity Information Network) held at the British Antarctic Survey. Key points include:
- SCAR-MarBIN aims to build a freely accessible network for Antarctic marine biodiversity data. It receives funding from various sources and feeds data to other biodiversity databases.
- Over 16,000 Antarctic taxa have been included in the RAMS database to date, with various countries contributing occurrence and metadata records. Usage and contributions to the portal have grown substantially over time.
- Upcoming projects include developing a new version of the SCAR-MarBIN portal with improved features, obtaining additional funding for projects inventorying Southern Ocean
This document provides information about SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF, which are web platforms that provide open access to marine biodiversity data. SCAR-MarBIN was funded by various organizations and aims to build a network of biodiversity data, adopt standards, and make data accessible to science, conservation and management. It contains over 1 million records from 138 datasets covering over 5,200 taxa. ANTABIF is being developed to create a new portal for Antarctic biodiversity data. Both aim to ensure the long-term continuation of sharing biodiversity data networks.
The document discusses two pilot projects in London and the North East of England that are investigating mapping underground utility assets more accurately. The pilots are being led by the Greater London Authority and Ordnance Survey, and are focusing on uses like avoiding utility strikes and improving project efficiency. Findings from the pilots will help inform whether to proceed with a national underground asset register. Key barriers to data sharing that the pilots are examining include issues around data discoverability, access, quality, interoperability, and security.
This document summarizes information about the Jisc Pathfinder open access projects at UCL, Nottingham, and Newcastle universities. It provides details about the size and research output of each university. The aims of the Pathfinder projects are to advocate for open access policies, manage publications and APC payments, and ensure compliance with REF open access requirements. It outlines developments like the REF open access policy and a Jisc review of readiness. Challenges include monitoring compliance across large institutions and managing the technical and cultural changes required.
Capgemini is involved in two ongoing Mars exploration missions: the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), operational since 2012, and the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (INSIGHT) mission, scheduled to launch in 2018. Capgemini contributes to these missions by developing and operating the mission control centers for two instruments on MSL - CHEMCAM and SAM - and the main seismometer instrument, SEIS, on INSIGHT. The control centers acquire, process and distribute instrument data to scientists.
This document discusses establishing a network of validation sites across the UK to validate Earth observation data. Each proposed site would be around 50 square kilometers and centered on a secure location equipped with instrumentation like flux towers, spectrometers, and cameras to collect data. Standardized methods and tools would be used across sites to allow comparisons. Examples of existing validation sites using Landsat data to monitor changes in Turkey's Tuz Gölü lake over decades are provided. The need to understand different levels of environmental complexity for planning remote sensing analyses is also cited.
Digitization and Strategies for Sharing Museum Collections OnlineJessie Christian
This document discusses the Ringling Museum's digitization efforts and strategies for sharing collections online. It outlines the formation of a digitization committee with representatives from the art museum, circus museum, and library to develop a unified vision. It also describes the museum's collections management system, eMuseum platform, digitized collections, and plans to consolidate online access through the Ringling Collections Online initiative over the next 5 years.
This document provides a progress report from a workshop on the SCAR-MarBIN (Marine Biodiversity Information Network) held at the British Antarctic Survey. Key points include:
- SCAR-MarBIN aims to build a freely accessible network for Antarctic marine biodiversity data. It receives funding from various sources and feeds data to other biodiversity databases.
- Over 16,000 Antarctic taxa have been included in the RAMS database to date, with various countries contributing occurrence and metadata records. Usage and contributions to the portal have grown substantially over time.
- Upcoming projects include developing a new version of the SCAR-MarBIN portal with improved features, obtaining additional funding for projects inventorying Southern Ocean
This document provides information about SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF, which are web platforms that provide open access to marine biodiversity data. SCAR-MarBIN was funded by various organizations and aims to build a network of biodiversity data, adopt standards, and make data accessible to science, conservation and management. It contains over 1 million records from 138 datasets covering over 5,200 taxa. ANTABIF is being developed to create a new portal for Antarctic biodiversity data. Both aim to ensure the long-term continuation of sharing biodiversity data networks.
The document describes plans to build an online, collaborative field guide for Antarctic wildlife. It will allow users to browse entries on different taxa, build custom field guides, and download printable versions. Several organizations will collaborate and contribute content. The field guide will have a backoffice for editing and a frontoffice for public use. It will integrate with existing databases and image sources. The goal is to provide comprehensive information on Antarctic species to help with identification in the field.
Presentation given at the Microbial Antarctic Resource System (mARS), during the SCAR Open Science Conference 2012, in Portland. Presented by Alison Murray and Bruno Danis.
SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF are open access biodiversity data portals for Antarctic species. They provide taxonomic and geospatial data for over 50 million records through their websites and web services. The portals aim to build an open ecosystem for sharing Antarctic biodiversity data through standardization and community involvement. Upcoming products will include georeferenced genetic data and interactive atlases.
The document discusses two biodiversity information networks - SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF - that provide free and open access to Antarctic biodiversity data. They follow a general philosophy of building an electronic ecosystem that exposes biodiversity data and metadata in multiple contexts through community collaboration and standardization. The networks have developed web portals, taxonomic and geospatial databases, field guides, and tools that follow open standards to facilitate data sharing and discovery. Projects aim to georeference genetic data and develop a Southern Ocean biogeography atlas.
The document discusses SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF, which provide free and open access to Antarctic biodiversity data. Their goals are to exchange scientific data and results from Antarctica freely to promote international cooperation and adaptive conservation/management. They have developed web portals and databases containing over 850,000 visitors and 35 million data records downloaded. Their philosophy is to build an open electronic ecosystem offering access to taxonomic and geospatial biodiversity data using open source solutions.
The EGI Federation of clusters and research clouds are components of the European Open Science Cloud, and they offer technical solutions and an infrastructure to support the EuroGEOSS pilots, GEOSS and EO data exploitation platforms.
Learn how, by looking at the collaboration of EGI with NextGEOSS, the production support of the Geohazards TEP of Terradue and the EOSC-hub collaboration with GEOSS.
Lessons learnt from EDIT - linking taxonomy and conservationvbrant
1. EDIT was a European project aimed at reducing fragmentation of taxonomic data and integrating taxonomic institutions through coordination and shared activities and infrastructure.
2. One goal was applying taxonomy to conservation through initiatives like ATBI+M, which organized taxonomic experts to conduct biodiversity inventories and monitoring at pilot conservation sites.
3. Lessons from EDIT emphasized the need for continued development of standards, tools, and virtual infrastructure to facilitate data capture, improve quality, and increase integration to support ongoing biodiversity observation.
EODATASERVICE.ORG - Digital Earth Platform to enable Muti-disciplinary Geospa...EUDAT
This document discusses the EarthServer-2 project, which aims to create a digital Earth platform for multi-disciplinary geospatial applications. The platform includes several data services that provide access to Earth observation data through standardized interfaces like OGC services. It allows users to access, visualize, subset, combine and process vast amounts of geospatial data simultaneously from multiple data sources. The platform is demonstrated through examples of using vegetation, precipitation and soil moisture data to study drought in Eastern Africa. It also discusses lessons learned from implementing the cube technology and providing access to data through various user interfaces tailored for different user groups.
Aopting and adapting SeaDataNet services for EMODnet ChemistryEUDAT
The document summarizes how EMODnet Chemistry is adopting and adapting services from SeaDataNet to unlock fragmented marine chemistry data across Europe. Key points include:
- EMODnet Chemistry aggregates chemistry data from over 100 organizations across 27 countries to produce pan-European data products on topics like eutrophication, ocean acidification, and contaminants.
- It is using SeaDataNet standards for metadata, vocabularies, data formats, and tools to allow discovery, access, and visualization of harmonized chemistry data.
- Services being adopted include the CDI interface, ODV software, DIVA maps, and the Ocean Browser. New vocabularies are also being developed for EMODnet Chemistry.
Use of satellite imagery for the generation of an aquaculture atlas : a case ...Blue BRIDGE
The document describes a project to design an Aquaculture Atlas Production System (AAPS) that takes satellite imagery as input and generates products about aquaculture for users. It will implement a prototype for areas in Greece and Indonesia. The system will use tools to automatically detect aquaculture features like fish cages in images and map them. It will make the outputs like location maps and statistics available to users through a virtual research environment by the end of 2016 to support aquaculture monitoring, analysis and planning.
This document discusses the EOSC-hub project, which brings together 20 European research infrastructures to offer services, software, and data for advanced research through a central digital innovation hub. The hub acts as a contact point for researchers to discover, access, and reuse over 100 partners' resources over 36 months with a 33 million Euro budget. It outlines how the project contributes to the objectives of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by publishing and providing access to services across disciplines, increasing interoperability between infrastructures, and supporting open science and research artifacts. A catalogue of services is presented spanning various domains from arts and humanities to physical sciences.
2013 ICEEFP Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS) at Petascale_Mark ...Christa Woodley
Since 2004 the Juvenile Salmonid Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) cabled array and autonomous node systems have been deployed in the Columbia River Basin to provide survival estimates and understand fish passage. Autonomous nodes provide presence/absence while cabled arrays provide 3D fish position estimates. Cabled array deployments consist of over 100 acquisition systems continually collecting data through the juvenile salmonid migration season. Raw data volumes are approaching petabytes. Real-time software processing reduces decode acoustic micro transmitter (AMT) signals surgically implanted in juvenile salmonids. Given the distance between and number of systems, cellular modems notify a central monitoring system of potential system issues. Project management receives system alerts in efforts to proactively fix faulting equipment. System downtime and fish detections are coordinated with dam operations data, run at large estimates, environmental measurements, and fish condition data. Fish condition helps estimate the run of the river and is collected throughput the season. This data includes photographing each fish used in the study. In 2012, approximately 65,000 photographs were taken. Images are archived and used for reporting to management agencies. We present a fisheries information management system for large studies that can facilitate future spatiotemporal meta-data analysis to support management of hydropower systems.
PHIDIAS - Boosting the use of cloud services for marine data management, serv...Phidias
Description and scope of the Project
Phidias HPC is aimed at developing a consolidated and shared HPC and Data service by building on pre-existing and emerging infrastructure in order to create a federation of "user to infrastructure" services.
To achieve its purpose and to gain a comprehensive picture of the European infrastructure landscape, three data area tests will develop and provide new services to discover, manage and process spatial and environmental data produced by research communities tackling scientific challenges such as atmospheric, marine and earth observation issues.
Webinar: How to improve the cloud services for marine data
Observing the ocean is challenging: missions at sea are costly, different scales of processes interact, and the conditions are constantly changing, which is why scientists say that "a measurement not made today is lost forever". For these reasons, it is fundamental to properly store both the data and metadata, so that their access can be guaranteed for the widest community, in line with the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable and Reusable.
PHIDIAS HPC has organised a webinar entitled "PHIDIAS: Boosting the use of cloud services for marine management, services and processing" to be held on 4th June 2020 at 11 AM CEST. The webinar aims to introduce the Phidias HPC initiative, in collaboration with the Blue-Cloud project, to the European HPC and Research community, specifically in the Blue economy, to improve the use of (1) cloud services for marine data management, (2) data services to the user in a FAIR perspective, and (3) data processing on demand.
These objectives will be pursued in coherence with the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS).
2013 DataCite Summer Meeting - Making Research better
DataCite. Co-sponsored by CODATA.
Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 13:00 - Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:30
Washington, DC. National Academy of Sciences
http://datacite.eventbrite.co.uk/
Global Information Systems for Plant Genetic Resources (2009)Dag Endresen
Global information systems for plant genetic resources. For the Caucasus germplasm network training course at the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen), Alnarp Sweden 29th January 2009.
The document describes plans to build an online, collaborative field guide for Antarctic wildlife. It will allow users to browse entries on different taxa, build custom field guides, and download printable versions. Several organizations will collaborate and contribute content. The field guide will have a backoffice for editing and a frontoffice for public use. It will integrate with existing databases and image sources. The goal is to provide comprehensive information on Antarctic species to help with identification in the field.
Presentation given at the Microbial Antarctic Resource System (mARS), during the SCAR Open Science Conference 2012, in Portland. Presented by Alison Murray and Bruno Danis.
SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF are open access biodiversity data portals for Antarctic species. They provide taxonomic and geospatial data for over 50 million records through their websites and web services. The portals aim to build an open ecosystem for sharing Antarctic biodiversity data through standardization and community involvement. Upcoming products will include georeferenced genetic data and interactive atlases.
The document discusses two biodiversity information networks - SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF - that provide free and open access to Antarctic biodiversity data. They follow a general philosophy of building an electronic ecosystem that exposes biodiversity data and metadata in multiple contexts through community collaboration and standardization. The networks have developed web portals, taxonomic and geospatial databases, field guides, and tools that follow open standards to facilitate data sharing and discovery. Projects aim to georeference genetic data and develop a Southern Ocean biogeography atlas.
The document discusses SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF, which provide free and open access to Antarctic biodiversity data. Their goals are to exchange scientific data and results from Antarctica freely to promote international cooperation and adaptive conservation/management. They have developed web portals and databases containing over 850,000 visitors and 35 million data records downloaded. Their philosophy is to build an open electronic ecosystem offering access to taxonomic and geospatial biodiversity data using open source solutions.
The EGI Federation of clusters and research clouds are components of the European Open Science Cloud, and they offer technical solutions and an infrastructure to support the EuroGEOSS pilots, GEOSS and EO data exploitation platforms.
Learn how, by looking at the collaboration of EGI with NextGEOSS, the production support of the Geohazards TEP of Terradue and the EOSC-hub collaboration with GEOSS.
Lessons learnt from EDIT - linking taxonomy and conservationvbrant
1. EDIT was a European project aimed at reducing fragmentation of taxonomic data and integrating taxonomic institutions through coordination and shared activities and infrastructure.
2. One goal was applying taxonomy to conservation through initiatives like ATBI+M, which organized taxonomic experts to conduct biodiversity inventories and monitoring at pilot conservation sites.
3. Lessons from EDIT emphasized the need for continued development of standards, tools, and virtual infrastructure to facilitate data capture, improve quality, and increase integration to support ongoing biodiversity observation.
EODATASERVICE.ORG - Digital Earth Platform to enable Muti-disciplinary Geospa...EUDAT
This document discusses the EarthServer-2 project, which aims to create a digital Earth platform for multi-disciplinary geospatial applications. The platform includes several data services that provide access to Earth observation data through standardized interfaces like OGC services. It allows users to access, visualize, subset, combine and process vast amounts of geospatial data simultaneously from multiple data sources. The platform is demonstrated through examples of using vegetation, precipitation and soil moisture data to study drought in Eastern Africa. It also discusses lessons learned from implementing the cube technology and providing access to data through various user interfaces tailored for different user groups.
Aopting and adapting SeaDataNet services for EMODnet ChemistryEUDAT
The document summarizes how EMODnet Chemistry is adopting and adapting services from SeaDataNet to unlock fragmented marine chemistry data across Europe. Key points include:
- EMODnet Chemistry aggregates chemistry data from over 100 organizations across 27 countries to produce pan-European data products on topics like eutrophication, ocean acidification, and contaminants.
- It is using SeaDataNet standards for metadata, vocabularies, data formats, and tools to allow discovery, access, and visualization of harmonized chemistry data.
- Services being adopted include the CDI interface, ODV software, DIVA maps, and the Ocean Browser. New vocabularies are also being developed for EMODnet Chemistry.
Use of satellite imagery for the generation of an aquaculture atlas : a case ...Blue BRIDGE
The document describes a project to design an Aquaculture Atlas Production System (AAPS) that takes satellite imagery as input and generates products about aquaculture for users. It will implement a prototype for areas in Greece and Indonesia. The system will use tools to automatically detect aquaculture features like fish cages in images and map them. It will make the outputs like location maps and statistics available to users through a virtual research environment by the end of 2016 to support aquaculture monitoring, analysis and planning.
This document discusses the EOSC-hub project, which brings together 20 European research infrastructures to offer services, software, and data for advanced research through a central digital innovation hub. The hub acts as a contact point for researchers to discover, access, and reuse over 100 partners' resources over 36 months with a 33 million Euro budget. It outlines how the project contributes to the objectives of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by publishing and providing access to services across disciplines, increasing interoperability between infrastructures, and supporting open science and research artifacts. A catalogue of services is presented spanning various domains from arts and humanities to physical sciences.
2013 ICEEFP Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS) at Petascale_Mark ...Christa Woodley
Since 2004 the Juvenile Salmonid Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) cabled array and autonomous node systems have been deployed in the Columbia River Basin to provide survival estimates and understand fish passage. Autonomous nodes provide presence/absence while cabled arrays provide 3D fish position estimates. Cabled array deployments consist of over 100 acquisition systems continually collecting data through the juvenile salmonid migration season. Raw data volumes are approaching petabytes. Real-time software processing reduces decode acoustic micro transmitter (AMT) signals surgically implanted in juvenile salmonids. Given the distance between and number of systems, cellular modems notify a central monitoring system of potential system issues. Project management receives system alerts in efforts to proactively fix faulting equipment. System downtime and fish detections are coordinated with dam operations data, run at large estimates, environmental measurements, and fish condition data. Fish condition helps estimate the run of the river and is collected throughput the season. This data includes photographing each fish used in the study. In 2012, approximately 65,000 photographs were taken. Images are archived and used for reporting to management agencies. We present a fisheries information management system for large studies that can facilitate future spatiotemporal meta-data analysis to support management of hydropower systems.
PHIDIAS - Boosting the use of cloud services for marine data management, serv...Phidias
Description and scope of the Project
Phidias HPC is aimed at developing a consolidated and shared HPC and Data service by building on pre-existing and emerging infrastructure in order to create a federation of "user to infrastructure" services.
To achieve its purpose and to gain a comprehensive picture of the European infrastructure landscape, three data area tests will develop and provide new services to discover, manage and process spatial and environmental data produced by research communities tackling scientific challenges such as atmospheric, marine and earth observation issues.
Webinar: How to improve the cloud services for marine data
Observing the ocean is challenging: missions at sea are costly, different scales of processes interact, and the conditions are constantly changing, which is why scientists say that "a measurement not made today is lost forever". For these reasons, it is fundamental to properly store both the data and metadata, so that their access can be guaranteed for the widest community, in line with the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Inter-operable and Reusable.
PHIDIAS HPC has organised a webinar entitled "PHIDIAS: Boosting the use of cloud services for marine management, services and processing" to be held on 4th June 2020 at 11 AM CEST. The webinar aims to introduce the Phidias HPC initiative, in collaboration with the Blue-Cloud project, to the European HPC and Research community, specifically in the Blue economy, to improve the use of (1) cloud services for marine data management, (2) data services to the user in a FAIR perspective, and (3) data processing on demand.
These objectives will be pursued in coherence with the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS).
2013 DataCite Summer Meeting - Making Research better
DataCite. Co-sponsored by CODATA.
Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 13:00 - Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:30
Washington, DC. National Academy of Sciences
http://datacite.eventbrite.co.uk/
Global Information Systems for Plant Genetic Resources (2009)Dag Endresen
Global information systems for plant genetic resources. For the Caucasus germplasm network training course at the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen), Alnarp Sweden 29th January 2009.
ViBRANT—Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for TaxonomyVince Smith
Presented by Dave Roberts and coauthored by Vince Smith at BioIdentify 2010, the National Muséum of Natural History (MNHN), Paris, France. 20-22 Sept, 2010.
FAIR Data Bridging from researcher data management to ELIXIR archives in the...Carole Goble
ISMB-ECCB 2021, NIH/ODSS Session, 27 July 2021
ELIXIR is the pan-national European Research Infrastructure for Life Science data, whose 23 national nodes and the EBI coordinate the development and long-term sustainability of domain public databases. FAIR services, policies and curation approaches aim to build a FAIR connected data ecosystem of trusted domain repositories, from ENA, HPA and EGA to specialised resources like CorkOakDB and PIPPA for plant phenotypes. But this is only one part of the data landscape and often the end of data’s journey. The nodes support research projects to operate “FAIR data first”, working with institutional and national platforms that are often generic or designed for project-based data management. We need to bridge between project-based and community-based, and support researchers across their whole RDM lifecycle, navigating the complexity this ecosystem. The ELIXIR-CONVERGE project and its flagship RDMkit toolkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org) aims to do just that.
This presentation summarizes the advancements towards the completing the work described in GBIF Work Programme Update 2016.
It was composed by different members from the GBIF Secretariat. This particular version was shared during the European Nodes Meeting in Lisbon the 19 April 2016.
European agrobiodioversity, ECPGR network meeting on EURISCO, Central Crop Da...Dag Endresen
Presentation on the Darwin Core standard for data exchange and the germplasm extension for genebanks during the 2014 workshop of the ECPGR Documentation and Information Working Group "Tailoring the Documentation of Plant Genetic Resources in Europe to the Needs of the User" (http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/working_groups/documentation_information/docinfo2014.html) in Prague-Ruzyně, Czech Republic, 20th May 2014.
Short URL: https://goo.gl/C5UEnU
DOI: http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10865.28006
This document summarizes the work of the Marine Biology Lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles led by Bruno Danis. It describes the lab's research focusing on various topics related to marine biology in Antarctica such as symbiosis, eco-physiology, biogeography, and biodiversity informatics. It lists the biological models, approaches, and objectives for each research topic. It also provides information on the lab's partners, funding, timelines, and publications. The lab operates the biodiversity.aq ecosystem which includes tools and databases for taxonomy, occurrences, an atlas, field guides, and microbial data.
VERSO: Ecosystem Responses in the Southern OceanBruno Danis
General presentation of the BELSPO funded vERSO (Ecosystem Resoponses to Changes in the Southern Ocean) project. More information on www.versoproject.be
A new atlas, providing the most thorough audit of marine life in the Southern Ocean, is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Leading marine biologists and oceanographers from all over the world spent the last four years compiling everything they know about ocean species from microbes to whales. It’s the first time that such an effort has been undertaken since 1969 when the American Society of Geography published its Antarctic Map Folio Series.
In an unprecedented international collaboration 147 scientists from 91 institutions across 22 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA) combined their expertise and knowledge to produce the new Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. More than 9000 species are recorded, ranging from microbes to whales. Hundreds of thousands of records show the extent of scientific knowledge on the distribution of life in the Southern Ocean. In 66 chapters, the scientists examine the evolution, physical environment, genetics and possible impact of climate change on marine organisms in the region.
Chief editor, Claude De Broyer, of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, said: “This is the first time that all the records of the unique Antarctic marine biodiversity, from the very beginnings of Antarctic exploration in the days of Captain Cook, have been compiled, analysed and mapped by the scientific community. It has resulted in a comprehensive atlas and an accessible database of useful information on the conservation of Antarctic marine life.”
Register of Antarctic Marine Species - AquaRESBruno Danis
RAMS (the Register of Antarctic Marine Species) is a free and open access database that contains taxonomic and biogeographic data for over 18,000 accepted Antarctic marine species. It is a community-driven project with a board of 60 editors. RAMS is part of the larger WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species) database. It serves as a taxonomic backbone for many Antarctic biodiversity projects and is aimed at supporting science, conservation, and management efforts. RAMS data is accessible on the biodiversity.aq website.
Presentation given at the Standing Groups meeting at the SCAR Open Science Conference. This presentation focuses on a facet of the ANTABIF architecture, the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit
The document describes a dataset of sea stars (Antarctic starfish) collected during the ANDEEP3 expedition in 2005. The expedition focused on deep-sea stations in the Powell Basin and Weddell Sea of Antarctica. Sea stars were collected using trawling methods at depths ranging from 1,047 to 4,931 meters. The dataset includes information on the starfish specimens collected, such as location and depth of collection. A data paper describing the dataset was published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys to make the dataset available and provide scholarly credit to the data publishers.
This document provides information about a meeting to design an integrated information system called MARS (Microbial Antarctic Resource System) for microbial biodiversity data from Antarctica. The goals are to capture stakeholder needs, scope the project, identify requirements, examine challenges of unifying different data types, and provide recommendations. Participants will discuss priorities and needs, examine sample data, and have hands-on activities over multiple days to iteratively design MARS.
This document provides an overview and objectives of an ANTABIF training session. The training will familiarize participants with ANTABIF's architecture, functionalities, tools and standards. It will include hands-on exercises with dummy and real data. The objectives are to learn about ANTABIF, see demonstrations of its features, and collect feedback on its usefulness. The agenda includes technical overviews, standards, publishing tools, and hands-on sessions.
Biodiversity Information Networks: dataflows for interdisciplinary scienceBruno Danis
In this paper, we present SCAR’s Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN, www.scarmarbin.be), introduce the new Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF, HYPERLINK "http://www.biodiversity.aq" www.biodiversity.aq) and argue that it has become vital and practicable to support an international mechanism for the exchange of scientific data. This approach allows to integrate large data volumes, and helps modern biologists to face a “data deluge” using new techniques and technologies currently developed in the field of biodiversity informatics. Biodiversity is an example of data-intensive science, and certainly requires an interdisciplinary, scalable approach to address complex systemic problems such as environmental change and its impact on marine ecosystems. This paper discusses the experience of data scientists seeking to collect, curate, and provide data during the timeframe of the International Polar Year. The data content of the SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF holdings has been explored, and recent published analyses are used to illustrate concrete examples. We find that while technology is a critical factor to address this dimension, the greater challenges are more socio-cultural than technical. We describe a vision of discoverable, open, linked, useful, and safe data and suggest the need for a rapid socio-technical evolution in the overall science data ecosystem.
An overview of Antarctic biodiversity networksBruno Danis
The document summarizes Bruno Danis' presentation on Antarctic Biodiversity Networks at the GBIF Science Symposium 2011. Some key points:
- Antarctic Treaty of 1959 inspired sharing of scientific data from Antarctica freely.
- SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF facilitate open access to Antarctic biodiversity data through various tools and portals.
- Achievements include the Reference Antarctic Marine Species database, over 1 million georeferenced records published through GBIF and OBIS, and community projects like the Antarctic Field Guides and Biogeography Atlas of the Southern Ocean.
- Future challenges include continued technological improvements and promoting a culture of open data sharing in the Antarctic community.
This presentation was given as a keynote during the CAML session at the SCAR open science conference in Buenos Aires, August 2010. Its an introduction to Polar data sharing, focusing on SCAR's Marine Biodiversity Information Network (www.scarmarbin.be) and the new Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (www.biodiversity.aq). Both these projects aim at offering free and open access to raw scientific data pertaining to Antarctic biodiversity.
Infrastructure Challenges in Scaling RAG with Custom AI modelsZilliz
Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with open-source and custom AI models is a complex task. This talk explores the challenges in productionizing RAG systems, including retrieval performance, response synthesis, and evaluation. We’ll discuss how to leverage open-source models like text embeddings, language models, and custom fine-tuned models to enhance RAG performance. Additionally, we’ll cover how BentoML can help orchestrate and scale these AI components efficiently, ensuring seamless deployment and management of RAG systems in the cloud.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
CAKE: Sharing Slices of Confidential Data on BlockchainClaudio Di Ciccio
Presented at the CAiSE 2024 Forum, Intelligent Information Systems, June 6th, Limassol, Cyprus.
Synopsis: Cooperative information systems typically involve various entities in a collaborative process within a distributed environment. Blockchain technology offers a mechanism for automating such processes, even when only partial trust exists among participants. The data stored on the blockchain is replicated across all nodes in the network, ensuring accessibility to all participants. While this aspect facilitates traceability, integrity, and persistence, it poses challenges for adopting public blockchains in enterprise settings due to confidentiality issues. In this paper, we present a software tool named Control Access via Key Encryption (CAKE), designed to ensure data confidentiality in scenarios involving public blockchains. After outlining its core components and functionalities, we showcase the application of CAKE in the context of a real-world cyber-security project within the logistics domain.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61000-4_16
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.