This document discusses the landscape of biodiversity informatics from a systematics perspective. It covers the background of the domain including key problems integrating biodiversity research. It also discusses social challenges like openness, collaboration and communities, as well as standards, identifiers and protocols. Finally, it briefly touches on (big) data challenges and synthetic challenges related to data aggregation, linking, visualization and modeling in biodiversity informatics. The overall goal appears to be providing an integrated view of the current state and opportunities in the field.
Lecture for a course at NTNU, 27th January 2021
CC-BY 4.0 Dag Endresen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-5497
See also http://bit.ly/biodiversityinformatics
https://www.gbif.no/events/2021/lecture-ntnu-gbif.html
Towards 2030. Strategy seminar for the Research Section at the UiO Natural History Museum in Oslo on 8-9 November 2018. Strategic directions for GBIF and GBIF.no and the UiO Natural History Museum. Progress towards a long-term permanent GBIF research data infrastructure in Norway and a sustainable and actionable GBIF Node consortium.
GBIF and reuse of research data, Bergen (2016-12-14)Dag Endresen
Biodiversity informatics seminar at the Department of Biology, University of Bergen on data publication and reuse of GBIF-mediated biodiversity data on 14th December 2016. Organized by the Norwegian GBIF Node and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Center (NBIC, Artsdatabanken).
See also: http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/data-publishing-seminar-in-bergen.html
See also: http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24290.32969
Introduction to GBIF. GBIF seminar in Bergen. 2016-12-14Dag Endresen
GBIF data publishing seminar at the Department for Biology at the University of Bergen. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/data-publishing-seminar-in-bergen.html
Lecture for a course at NTNU, 27th January 2021
CC-BY 4.0 Dag Endresen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-5497
See also http://bit.ly/biodiversityinformatics
https://www.gbif.no/events/2021/lecture-ntnu-gbif.html
Towards 2030. Strategy seminar for the Research Section at the UiO Natural History Museum in Oslo on 8-9 November 2018. Strategic directions for GBIF and GBIF.no and the UiO Natural History Museum. Progress towards a long-term permanent GBIF research data infrastructure in Norway and a sustainable and actionable GBIF Node consortium.
GBIF and reuse of research data, Bergen (2016-12-14)Dag Endresen
Biodiversity informatics seminar at the Department of Biology, University of Bergen on data publication and reuse of GBIF-mediated biodiversity data on 14th December 2016. Organized by the Norwegian GBIF Node and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Center (NBIC, Artsdatabanken).
See also: http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/data-publishing-seminar-in-bergen.html
See also: http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24290.32969
Introduction to GBIF. GBIF seminar in Bergen. 2016-12-14Dag Endresen
GBIF data publishing seminar at the Department for Biology at the University of Bergen. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/data-publishing-seminar-in-bergen.html
Presentation Open Science from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility at the Living Norway colloquium in Trondheim on 12 October 2020.
Slides credit: based on slides created by the GBIF Secretariat Scientific Officer; Biodiversity Open Data Ambassadors [ https://www.gbif.org/article/6dNF1d0tgcI4cmqeoS2sQ4/biodiversity-open-data-ambassadors ]. Video recording available at https://youtu.be/OpvxH6hj9K8?t=5786
CC-BY 4.0 Dag Endresen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-5497
See also http://bit.ly/biodiversityinformatics
GBIF data publishing. GBIF seminar in Bergen. 2016-12-14Dag Endresen
GBIF data publishing seminar at the Department for Biology at the University of Bergen. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/data-publishing-seminar-in-bergen.html
GBIF & GRScicoll, Høstseminar Norges museumsforbunds Seksjon for natur, 2021-...Dag Endresen
Norges museumsforbunds Seksjon for natur og Naturhistorisk museum ønsker velkommen til Høstseminar! Natur i museum – forskning, formidling og samlinger
24. og 25. november 2021
Dag Endresen (GBIF) (20 min foredrag, 10 min spørsmål)
Digitalisering og GBIF. Registering av samlinger i GrSciColl og Wikidata og publisering av samlingsdata i GBIF.
Digital research: Collections, data, tools and methods Stella Wisdom
Presentation for the Economic and Social Research Council North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership event on 26th November 2021, by Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator, British Library
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 2012Dag Endresen
Presentation of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and GBIF Norway for the Department of Technical and Scientific Conservation (CONSERV) at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. Tøyen, Oslo, 7 November 2012.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility - 2013Dag Endresen
Presentation of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), GBIF-Norway and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken) at the Norwegian Institute for Forestry and Landscape (Skog og Landskap) at Ås outside Oslo on the 17th October 2013. Seminar together with the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken).
Biodiversity Informatics: An Interdisciplinary ChallengeBryan Heidorn
"Impacto de la Informática en el Conocimiento de la Biodiversidad: Actualidad y Futuro” at Universidad Nacional de Colombia on August 12, 2011. https://sites.google.com/site/simposioinformaticaicn/home
#HepaticaWeek April 2016, GBIF data publishingDag Endresen
Citizen science species observation reporting and data publishing with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Video feed available at: https://youtu.be/t22QmFPcvOM?t=34m4s
GBIF-Norway node story lightning talk at GB26 in Leiden, October 2019Dag Endresen
The Nodes training at the start of the Nodes meeting focussed on Nodes strategies, administration, and governance tools. Some of the nodes stories were presented at the Global Nodes Meeting. Norway has an operational GBIF Node providing nationally important data pathways that are very well integrated into national information systems. However, there is not yet any solution in place for funding after 2019. In less than 3 months the node might be left without any node budget. Unfortunately, this is a situation far too many of the GBIF Nodes recognize alarmingly well - if they even have any appropriate node budget at all.
Data publication meeting at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), GBIF Norway and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken).
GBIF BIFA mentoring, Day 1 GBIF intro, July 2016Dag Endresen
GBIF BIFA mentoring in Los Banos, Philippines for the South-East Asian ASEAN Biodiversity Heritage Parks. With Dr. Yu-Huang Wang, Dr. Po-Jen Chiang, and Guan-Shuo Mai from TaiBIF the GBIF node of Taiwan (Chinese Tapei); and the Biodiversity Informatics team at ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/gbif-bifa-mentoring.html
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
Trait Mining, prediction of agricultural traits in plant genetic resources with ecological parameters. Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS). For the Vavilov seminars at the IPK Gatersleben 13th June 2007. Dag Endresen, Michael Mackay, Kenneth Street.
GBIF BIFA mentoring, Day 4b Event core, July 2016Dag Endresen
GBIF BIFA mentoring in Los Banos, Philippines for the South-East Asian ASEAN Biodiversity Heritage Parks. With Dr. Yu-Huang Wang, Dr. Po-Jen Chiang, and Guan-Shuo Mai from TaiBIF the GBIF node of Taiwan (Chinese Tapei); and the Biodiversity Informatics team at ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/gbif-bifa-mentoring.html
Intro to GBIF: Infrastructures and Platforms for Environmental Crowd Sensing ...Kyle Copas
Slides presented while representing GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (http://gbif.org)—at 'Infrastructures and Platforms for Environmental Crowd Sensing and Big Data' at the European Environment Agency on 9 Sept 2015. The session was part of EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability, a three-day conference in Copenhagen hosted by the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the European Environment Agency.
Darwin Core extension for germplasm (11th December 2013)Dag Endresen
Presentation on the Darwin Core germplasm extension for the "1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability: Session 2", 11th December 2013 (https://sites.google.com/site/germplasminteroperability/). Publishing germplasm information on plant genetic resources and their traits using the Darwin Core standard and the germplasm extension for genebanks.
Scratchpads in the Biodiversity Informatics LandscapeVince Smith
Roberts, D., Harman, K., Rycroft, S.D. & Smith, V.S. Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium 2008, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden 1-4 December 2008.
Presentation Open Science from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility at the Living Norway colloquium in Trondheim on 12 October 2020.
Slides credit: based on slides created by the GBIF Secretariat Scientific Officer; Biodiversity Open Data Ambassadors [ https://www.gbif.org/article/6dNF1d0tgcI4cmqeoS2sQ4/biodiversity-open-data-ambassadors ]. Video recording available at https://youtu.be/OpvxH6hj9K8?t=5786
CC-BY 4.0 Dag Endresen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-5497
See also http://bit.ly/biodiversityinformatics
GBIF data publishing. GBIF seminar in Bergen. 2016-12-14Dag Endresen
GBIF data publishing seminar at the Department for Biology at the University of Bergen. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/data-publishing-seminar-in-bergen.html
GBIF & GRScicoll, Høstseminar Norges museumsforbunds Seksjon for natur, 2021-...Dag Endresen
Norges museumsforbunds Seksjon for natur og Naturhistorisk museum ønsker velkommen til Høstseminar! Natur i museum – forskning, formidling og samlinger
24. og 25. november 2021
Dag Endresen (GBIF) (20 min foredrag, 10 min spørsmål)
Digitalisering og GBIF. Registering av samlinger i GrSciColl og Wikidata og publisering av samlingsdata i GBIF.
Digital research: Collections, data, tools and methods Stella Wisdom
Presentation for the Economic and Social Research Council North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership event on 26th November 2021, by Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator, British Library
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 2012Dag Endresen
Presentation of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and GBIF Norway for the Department of Technical and Scientific Conservation (CONSERV) at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. Tøyen, Oslo, 7 November 2012.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility - 2013Dag Endresen
Presentation of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), GBIF-Norway and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken) at the Norwegian Institute for Forestry and Landscape (Skog og Landskap) at Ås outside Oslo on the 17th October 2013. Seminar together with the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (NBIC, Artsdatabanken).
Biodiversity Informatics: An Interdisciplinary ChallengeBryan Heidorn
"Impacto de la Informática en el Conocimiento de la Biodiversidad: Actualidad y Futuro” at Universidad Nacional de Colombia on August 12, 2011. https://sites.google.com/site/simposioinformaticaicn/home
#HepaticaWeek April 2016, GBIF data publishingDag Endresen
Citizen science species observation reporting and data publishing with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Video feed available at: https://youtu.be/t22QmFPcvOM?t=34m4s
GBIF-Norway node story lightning talk at GB26 in Leiden, October 2019Dag Endresen
The Nodes training at the start of the Nodes meeting focussed on Nodes strategies, administration, and governance tools. Some of the nodes stories were presented at the Global Nodes Meeting. Norway has an operational GBIF Node providing nationally important data pathways that are very well integrated into national information systems. However, there is not yet any solution in place for funding after 2019. In less than 3 months the node might be left without any node budget. Unfortunately, this is a situation far too many of the GBIF Nodes recognize alarmingly well - if they even have any appropriate node budget at all.
Data publication meeting at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), GBIF Norway and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken).
GBIF BIFA mentoring, Day 1 GBIF intro, July 2016Dag Endresen
GBIF BIFA mentoring in Los Banos, Philippines for the South-East Asian ASEAN Biodiversity Heritage Parks. With Dr. Yu-Huang Wang, Dr. Po-Jen Chiang, and Guan-Shuo Mai from TaiBIF the GBIF node of Taiwan (Chinese Tapei); and the Biodiversity Informatics team at ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/gbif-bifa-mentoring.html
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
Trait Mining, prediction of agricultural traits in plant genetic resources with ecological parameters. Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS). For the Vavilov seminars at the IPK Gatersleben 13th June 2007. Dag Endresen, Michael Mackay, Kenneth Street.
GBIF BIFA mentoring, Day 4b Event core, July 2016Dag Endresen
GBIF BIFA mentoring in Los Banos, Philippines for the South-East Asian ASEAN Biodiversity Heritage Parks. With Dr. Yu-Huang Wang, Dr. Po-Jen Chiang, and Guan-Shuo Mai from TaiBIF the GBIF node of Taiwan (Chinese Tapei); and the Biodiversity Informatics team at ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/gbif-bifa-mentoring.html
Intro to GBIF: Infrastructures and Platforms for Environmental Crowd Sensing ...Kyle Copas
Slides presented while representing GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (http://gbif.org)—at 'Infrastructures and Platforms for Environmental Crowd Sensing and Big Data' at the European Environment Agency on 9 Sept 2015. The session was part of EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability, a three-day conference in Copenhagen hosted by the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the European Environment Agency.
Darwin Core extension for germplasm (11th December 2013)Dag Endresen
Presentation on the Darwin Core germplasm extension for the "1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability: Session 2", 11th December 2013 (https://sites.google.com/site/germplasminteroperability/). Publishing germplasm information on plant genetic resources and their traits using the Darwin Core standard and the germplasm extension for genebanks.
Scratchpads in the Biodiversity Informatics LandscapeVince Smith
Roberts, D., Harman, K., Rycroft, S.D. & Smith, V.S. Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium 2008, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden 1-4 December 2008.
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]
A Revolution in Open Science: Open Data and the Role of Libraries (Professor ...LIBER Europe
This talk was given by Prof. Geoffrey Boulton of the University of Edinburgh at LIBER's 42nd annual conference in Munich. Here is a brief summary: "The data storm that has been unleashed by novel means of data acquisition, manipulation and their instantaneous communication have posed both great challenges and opportunities for science. The challenge is to maintain scientific self-correction, which depends on concurrent publication of concepts and the underlying evidence. The opportunity is to exploit massive and complex data volumes in creating new knowledge. Both are non-trivial tasks. The former requires ‘intelligent openness‘."
"The latter requires new ways of thinking and new forms of collaboration, which make major demands on scientists, their institutions, those that fund science and those who publish it. Open access publishing is important, but open data is fundamental to scientific progress."
"In a post-Gutenberg era, can the library maintain its historic role as an efficient repository of scientific knowledge? Can it provide support for the creation of new knowledge? What responsibilities should it discharge, and how? What skills are required by those discharging the library function? And how do we achieve a realisable objective, of having all the publications online, all the data online, and for the two to be interoperable?"
Learn more about LIBER at www.libereurope.eu
Trust and Accountability: experiences from the FAIRDOM Commons Initiative.Carole Goble
Presented at Digital Life 2018, Bergen, March 2018. In the Trust and Accountability session.
In recent years we have seen a change in expectations for the management and availability of all the outcomes of research (models, data, SOPs, software etc) and for greater transparency and reproduciblity in the method of research. The “FAIR” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Guiding Principles for stewardship [1] have proved to be an effective rallying-cry for community groups and for policy makers.
The FAIRDOM Initiative (FAIR Data Models Operations, http://www.fair-dom.org) supports Systems Biology research projects with their research data, methods and model management, with an emphasis on standards and sensitivity to asset sharing and credit anxiety. Our aim is a FAIR Research Commons that blends together the doing of research with the communication of research. The Platform has been installed by over 30 labs/projects and our public, centrally hosted FAIRDOMHub [2] supports the outcomes of 90+ projects. We are proud to support projects in Norway’s Digital Life programme.
2018 is our 10th anniversary. Over the past decade we learned a lot about trust between researchers, between researchers and platform developers and curators and between both these groups and funders. We have experienced the Tragedy of the Commons but also seen shifts in attitudes.
In this talk we will use our experiences in FAIRDOM to explore the political, economic, social and technical, social practicalities of Trust.
[1] Wilkinson et al (2016) The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship Scientific Data 3, doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.18
[2] Wolstencroft, et al (2016) FAIRDOMHub: a repository and collaboration environment for sharing systems biology research Nucleic Acids Research, 45(D1): D404-D407. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1032
The Vision and the Grand Challenges of the Agri-Food Communitye-ROSA
Sander Janssen's presentation at the eROSA Workshop “Towards Open Science in Agriculture & Food”, a side event to High Level conference on FOOD 2030, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (13/6/2018)
FP7 Funded RI Project experiences: some overly honest tips from a project coo...Vince Smith
Smith, V.S. 2014. FP7 Funded RI Project experiences: some overly honest tips from a project coordinator, EC Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures Information Day in at the Natural History Museum London, U.K. 18 June 2014.
No specimen left behind: Collections digitisation at the NHM, London*Vince Smith
Presentation on the Natural History Museum, London Digitisation Programme, given at the "Collections for the 21st Century" meeting in Gainesville, Florida, 5-6 May 2014
Assisted restructure of web content for paper-based presentation: a look at w...Vince Smith
Heaton, A., Rycroft, S., Baker, E., Bouton, K., Scott, B., Koureas, D., Livermore, L., Roberts, D., Smith, V. 2013 Assisted restructure of web content for paper-based presentation: a look at workflows and data representations. TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov., 2013.
Bibliography of Life: Comprehensive services for biodiversity bibliographic r...Vince Smith
King, D., Sautter, G., Morse, D., Penev, L., Biserkov, J., Georgiev, T., Roberts, D., Smith, V. Bibliography of Life: Comprehensive services for biodiversity bibliographic references (POSTER). TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov., 2013.
Scratchpads: the Virtual Research Environment for biodiversity dataVince Smith
Rycroft, S., Roberts, D., Smith, V., Heaton, A., Bouton, K., Livermore, L., Koureas, D., Baker, E. 2013. Scratchpads: the Virtual Research Environment for biodiversity data. TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov., 2013.
Next generation sequencing requires next generation publishing: the Biodivers...Vince Smith
Penev, L., Stoev, P., Komericki, A., Akkari, N., Li, S., Zhou, X., Edmunds, S., Hunter, C., Weigand, A., Porco, D., Zapparoli, M., Georgiev, T., Mietchen, D., Roberts, D., Smith, V. 2013. Next generation sequencing requires next generation publishing: the Biodiversity Data Journal published the first eukaryotic new species with a fully sequenced transcriptome, DNA barcode and microcomputed tomography. TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov.
Use it or lose it: crowdsourcing support and outreach activities in a hybrid ...Vince Smith
Koureas, D., Livermore, L., Roberts, D., Smith, V. 2013. Use it or lose it: crowdsourcing support and outreach activities in a hybrid sustainability model for e-infrastructures – the ViBRANT project case studies. TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov., 2013.
Don't make me think: biodiversity data publishing made easyVince Smith
Presented by V. Smith at the 2013 iEvoBio Conference. Part of Evolution 2013, the joint annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN). June 21-26, 2013, Snowbird Alpine Village, Utah, USA.
Don’t make me think: biodiversity data publishing made easyVince Smith
Presented by Vince Smith at the iEvoBio 2013 meeting in Snowbird, Utah, USA on 25th June, 2013. The presentation coauthors are Alice Heaton, Laurence Livermore, Simon Rycroft and Ben Scott from the Natural History Museum, London, and Lyubomir Penev from Pensoft Publishing, Bulgaria.
Making your data work for you: Scratchpads, publishing & the biodiversity dat...Vince Smith
This is a derivative of a talk I gave at the Linnean society on 20th Sept. 2012. This version was given at the i4Life Environmental Genomics workshop on 25th Sept. and refocused to look at the dark taxa problem and developing published descriptions of molecular sequence clusters.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
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.
Gopinath Rebala
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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• The
problem
(i.e.
why
are
we
here)
• Representa6ons
of
the
domain
(data,
infrastructures,
projects…)
• Toward
an
integrated
view
(strategy)
2. Social
challenges
• Openness
• Collabora6on
and
communi6es
• Standards,
iden6fiers
&
protocols
3. (Big)
data
challenges
• Mobilizing
exis6ng
data
(metadata,
literature,
collec6ons)
• New
forms
of
data
([meta]genomics
&
observatories)
4. Synthe9c
challenges
• Data
Aggrega6on
&
linking
• Visualisa6on
• Modeling
5. Next
steps
(data
infrastructures
&
funding)
• Lessons
learned:
new
informa6cs
opportuni6es
in
H2020
4. The problem – integrating biodiversity research
How
to
we
join
up
these
ac0vi0es?
How
do
we
use
this
as
a
tool?
Species
conserva6on
&
protected
areas
Impacts
of
human
development
Biodiversity
&
human
health
Impacts
of
climate
change
Food,
farming
&
biofuels
Invasive
alien
species
What
infrastructures
do
we
need?
(technologies,
tools,
standards…)
What
processes
do
we
need?
(Modelling,
workflows…)
What
data
do
we
need?
(Genes,
locali6es…)
5. Natural History – the foundation
"It
is
interes0ng
to
contemplate
a
tangled
bank,
clothed
with
many
plants
of
many
kinds,
…,
so
different
from
each
other,
and
dependent
upon
each
other
in
so
complex
a
manner,
have
all
been
produced
by
laws
ac0ng
around
us.”
C.
Darwin
"On
the
Origin
of
Species”,
1859
Darwin’s
“tangled
bank”…
Systema9cs,
a
founda9onal
“law”
7. A granular understanding of biodiversity
Genes
GCGC
GTAC
CTAG
Individuals
i
ii
iii
iv
v
vi
Populations
1
2
1
2
3
Local populations
Species
A
B
C
D
E
F
Global
biodiversity
Interactions
A B C D E F
- + + + + +
+ - + + +
+ + -
+ -
+ -
+ -
Biological
networks
GenBank
8. Key
problems
• Landscape
is
complex,
fragmented
&
hard
to
navigate
• Many
audiences
(policy
makers,
scien6sts,
amateurs,
ci6zen
scien6sts)
• Many
scales
(global
solu6ons
to
local
problems)
Figure
adapted
from
Peterson
et
al
2010
Genotype Phenotype
Biotic
Interactions
Environment Human Effects
Niche & Pop.
Ecology
Biodiversity
Loss
Phylogenetic
Trees
Taxonomy
Geographic
Dsitributions
Range Maps
Forecasts of
Change
Conservation &
management
Products
Data
GenBank MorphBank Interactions Geospatial Census
IUCN
TreeBase
IPNI, Zoobank
Pop. data
GBIF
Extent of Occurrence AquaMaps
AquaMaps
Systems
An informaticians view of biodiversity
9. A project centric view of biodiversity
Nomenclators
Index Fungorum
ZooBank
IPNI
(Kew/AUS/Harvard)
ING
AFD/APC/APUI
NZOR
CoL (Sp2000& ITIS)
ZooRecord
PESI:
ERMS
Fauna Europea
Euro+Med Plantbase
ORBIS
WORMS
Flora Europea
Checklists
Phylogenetic
Tree of Life
TreeBase
CIPRES
Molecular
Databases
NCBI/EMBL/DDBJ
CBoL
Barcode of Life
Initiative
Biodiversity
ALA
CONABIO
CRIA (Brazil)
IUCN
SEEK
OPAL
DAISIE
iNaturalist
uBio
PLAZI
Inotaxa
BHL
eFloras
Scan / Mark/up
Identification
Key2Nature
IdentifyLife
Inter-Institutional
Synthesis
BCI
BioCASE
GeoCASE
MaNIS
Institutional
EMu (=MOA)
Recorder
TDWG
LifeWatch
GBIF
CDM
GNA (NameBank) IPNI
Google Scholar
Connotea
ViTaL
ISI
Bibliographic
Descriptive /
classification
EoL
Scratchpads
CATE
MorphoBank
Wikipedia
A
snapshot
from
2009,
“the
dance
of
the
ini0a0ves”
10. The strategic view: community informatics challenges
GBIF
GBIC
Report
(Coming
soon)
EU
Biodiversity
Strategy
(2011)
Biodiv.
Inf.
Challenges
(2013)
Grand
Challenges
for
Biodiversity
Informa6cs
(integra6ng
ac6vi6es
for
H2020)
11. 2.
Social
challenges
-
Openness
-
Collabora6on
and
communi6es
-
Standards,
iden6fiers
&
links
12. Openness in biodiversity informatics
E.
Archambault
et.
al.,
Propor9on
of
Open
Access
Peer-‐Reviewed
Papers
at
the
European
and
World
Levels-‐-‐2004-‐2011,
June
2013,
Science-‐Metrix
Inc.
“One-‐half
of
all
papers
are
now
freely
available
within
a
year
or
two
of
publica0on”
“A
piece
of
data
or
content
is
open
if
anyone
is
free
to
use,
reuse,
and
redistribute
it
-‐
subject,
at
most,
to
the
requirement
to
aOribute
and/or
share-‐alike.”
hfp://opendefini6on.org/
Many
kinds
of
openness:
• Open
Access
• Open
Data
• Open
Science
• Open
Source
• Sharing
data
is
a
founda6on
for
our
ac6vi6es
• Normal
prac6ce
in
some
communi6es
(molecular)
• Mandated
by
some
funders
&
governments
13. Openness in biodiversity informatics
Many
kinds
of
openness:
• Open
Access
• Open
Data
• Open
Science
• Open
Source
Need
to
con0nue
to
incen0vise
openness
“A
piece
of
data
or
content
is
open
if
anyone
is
free
to
use,
reuse,
and
redistribute
it
-‐
subject,
at
most,
to
the
requirement
to
aOribute
and/or
share-‐alike.”
• Sharing
data
is
a
founda6on
for
our
ac6vi6es
• Normal
prac6ce
in
some
communi6es
(molecular)
• Mandated
by
some
funders
&
governments
hfp://opendefini6on.org/
Incen6vise
through
credit
via
cita6on
(e.g.
BDJ)
14. What
are
Scratchpads?
(hfp://scratchpads.eu)
Taxa
Projects
Regions
Socie9es
544
Scratchpad
Communi6es
by
6,644
ac6ve
registered
users
covering
91,631
taxa
in
535,317
pages.
81
paper
cita9ons
in
2012
In
total
more
than
1,300,000
visitors
e.g.,
Scratchpad
Virtual
Research
Communi0es
Collaboration & communities
Making
taxonomy
a
team
sport
Our
infrastructures
need
to
facilitate
collabora0on
15. Standards, identifiers & protocols
Standards
can’t
be
developed
in
isola0on
–
they
must
be
used
Key
requirements:
• Need
to
be
inclusive,
prac6cal
&
extensible
• Readable
by
humans
&
machines
• Widely
used
Good
examples:
• Darwin
Core
• CrossRef
&
DataCite
DOIs
• ORCHID
Author
iden6fiers
Gaps
/
Problems
• Reuse
&
persistence
of
iden6fiers
• Vocabularies
&
ontologies
(6me
consuming
/
lifle
reward)
Poten0al
solu0ons
• Build
them
into
our
credit
systems
• Show
sema6c
reasoning
poten6al
(LOD
&
RDF
demonstrators)
A
founda6on
for
integra6on
Facilita9ng
data
sharing
across
communi9es
16. 3.
(Big)
data
challenges
-
Mobilising
exis6ng
data
-
New
forms
of
data
17. Mobilising existing data
Collec0ons
• 1.5-‐3B
specimens
in
collec6ons
worldwide
• Fragments
efforts
/
heterogeneity
of
process
• Needs
ambi6on
(NHM:
20M
in
5
yrs.)
&
coord.
Literature
• >300M
pages
of
biodiversity
literature
• BHL
(41M
pp.)
an
example
of
what
can
be
done
• Needs
a
sustainability
&
ar6cle
metadata
Metadata
registries
• Data
about
data
(cheaper
&
scalable)
• e.g.
bibliographic
data,
dataset
portals
Informa0cs
challenges
• Storage
&
persistence
• Automa6on
&
annota6on
• Incen6ves
to
digi6se
&
fitness
for
use
Collec9ons,
literature
&
metadata
How
can
we
quickly,
efficiently
and
cost
effec6vely
mobilise
biological
data
at
scale?
Bibliography
of
Life
(RefFinder
&
RefBank)
BHL
literature
NHM
Digi0sa0on
18. Mobilising & managing new forms of data
New
Molecular
approaches
• Molecular
detec6on
&
monitoring
of
organisms
is
rou6ne
• Metagenomics
(env.
sequencing)
commonplace
• Becoming
the
1°
route
to
understanding
biodiversity
Ecological
observatories
• Automated
biodiversity
detec6on
• Remote
sensing
(e.g.
satellite
&
acous6c
data,
drones,
camera
traps)
• Monitoring
conspicuous,
rare
or
invasive
spp.
(algal
blooms,
palms)
• Monitoring
human
ac6vity
Informa0cs
challenges
• Very
large
quan66es
of
data
(2.5-‐10TB
per
researcher
per
yr.)
• Doesn’t
map
well
to
exis6ng
data
infrastructures
• Challenge
current
networking
&
storage
capacity
• Digital
and
physical
collec6ons
become
equally
important?
3-‐4
June
2013,
NHM
22
July,
2013
Metagenomics
&
ecological
observatories
These
new
data
types
do
not
depend
on
tradi6onal
taxonomy
&
systema6cs
20. Aggregation & linking
Portals
bringing
together
distributed
&
diverse
forms
of
data
Giving
consistent
and
comprehensive
access
to
all
biological
data
Several
approaches,
with
different
advantages
• Tightly
coupled
to
a
few
data
sources
• (e.g.
eMonocot,
CDM)
• Loosely
coupled
to
many
sources
• (e.g.
BioNames,
Wikipedia)
• Hybrid
forms
(e.g.
Canadensys,
EOL,
GBIF)
Informa0cs
challenges
• Portals
are
hard
to
sustain
• New
methods
of
data
discovery
&
access
• Create
new
windows
(views)
on
content
• New
data
structures,
new
types
of
database
Scalable
but
less
accurate
(3M
taxon
names,
93k
phylogenies
&
28k
ar6cles)
BioNames
Selec0ve
&
accurate
but
hard
to
scale
(276k
taxa,
8k
images,
13
keys
&
3
phylogenies)
eMonocot
21. Visualisation
Visually
synthesizing
large,
linked
biodiversity
datasets
Making
biodiversity
data
accessible
&
understandable
NHM
specimen
records
hfp://data.nhm.ac.uk/globe/
Research
opportuni0es
• Tools
integra6on
(e.g.
GeoCat,
CartoDB)
• Span
mul6ple
audiences
Outreach
opportuni0es
• Visually
compelling
story
telling
• Crowdsourcing
tools
(e.g.
Notes
From
Nature)
Exploi0ng
new
technologies
• Touch
screens
• Mobile
• Loca6on
awareness
Informa0cs
challenges
• Very
specific
to
individual
use
cases
• Sustainability
issues
22. Modeling the biosphere: a (the) 30 year goal?
Conceptually
has
many
poten0al
uses
• Iden6fying
trends
• Explaining
paferns
• Making
predic6ons
• Real
6me
alerts
-‐
when
data
contradicts
current
knowledge
• The
ul6mate
policy
tool
Major
informa0cs
challenges
• Technical
very
difficult
(many
years
off)
• Needs
effec6ve
prototypes
&
plarorms
• Some
first
steps
e.g.
OBOE,
LEFT
Nature
2013,
doi:10.1038/493295a
Reasoning
across
large,
linked
biodiversity
datasets
A
clear,
singular,
long-‐term
vision,
which
biodiversity
data
can
contribute
too
24. Lessons learned: new opportunities in H2020
PATHWAYS
TO
INTEGRATION
(by
addressing
these
social,
data
&
synthe0c
challenges)
• Break
out
of
the
discipline,
technical
&
project
centric
ac9vi9es
(it
is
unsustainable,
inefficient
&
bad
for
science)
• Integrate
&
build
on
exi9ng
programmes
where
possible
(LifeWatch
is
a
poten6al
umbrella
for
these
ac6vi6es)
• Bridge
the
disconnect
between
informa9cians
&
users
(make
the
users
informa6cians
&
in
informa6cians
users)
• Our
products
well
suited
to
address
these
challenges
• Use
H2020
as
a
mechanism
to
achieve
integra9on
How
do
we
join
up
these
ac0vi0es?
26. Possible biodiversity informatics design principles*
1. Start
with
needs
-‐
focus
on
real
user
needs
(not
just
the
‘official
process’)
2. Do
less
-‐
if
someone
else
is
doing
it,
link
to
it
or
use
it
3. Design
with
data
-‐
prototype
and
test
with
real
users
on
the
live
website
4. Do
the
hard
work
to
make
it
simple
-‐
let
the
computer
take
the
strain
5. Iterate.
Then
iterate
again.
-‐
itera0on
reduces
risk
&
is
more
sustainable
6. Build
for
inclusion
–
it’s
easier
in
the
long
run
7. Understand
context
-‐
we
are
designing
for
people,
not
a
screen
or
a
brand
8. Build
digital
services,
not
websites
-‐
there
is
life
beyond
the
website
9. Be
consistent,
not
uniform
-‐
every
circumstance
is
different
10. Make
things
open:
it
makes
things
bejer
-‐
it’s
more
sustainable
=
experience
from
7-‐years
with
the
Scratchpads
=
lessons
for
infrastructures
in
H2020?
*hfps://www.gov.uk/designprinciples
27. Mobilising existing data: how to prioritise
Nick
Poole,
UK
Collec6ons
Trust
CONTENT
METADATA
A
LITTLE
A
LOT
Digi6se
a
few
things
&
invest
in
depth,
descrip6on
&
promo6on
Digi6se
lots
of
things,
put
lifle
effort
into
descrip6on
&
promo6on
FUN
OUTREACH
LEARNING
RESEARCH
AGGREGATION
DATA
MINING
COLECTIONS
MANAGEMENT
28. Collaboration & communities
• Very
few
recent
single
author
papers
• Most
(fundable)
science
is
cross-‐disciplinary
• Need
to
incen6vise
data
cura6on
&
annota6on
• Need
mechanisms
to
share
annota6ons
Our
infrastructures
need
to
facilitate
collabora0on
Joppa et al, 2011
CONE
SNAILS
BIRDS
MAMMALS
AMPHIBIANS
SPIDERS
PLANTS
Average
dates
when
increasing
numbers
of
taxonomists
were
involved
in
describing
species
Making
taxonomy
a
team
sport