by aimee stewart, j.h. beach, c.j. grady, j. cavner university of kansas biodiversity institute

Lifemapper: A Web-services Architecture for Integrating Collections into Broader Research

Communities

ByAimee Stewart, J.H. Beach, C.J. Grady, J. Cavner

University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute

http://www.lifemapper.org

Lifemapper brings together …

Biodiversity Inventory(Macro) Ecological Modeling

Global Climate Change

Integrate & Catalog for Transparent, Repeatable Science

Integration

Archiving

EEML

Work Flow Tools

Repeatable Transparent Science

Ellison, A. 2010. J. Ecology

QuantumGIS

VisTrailsW

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Metadata

Data

Analysis

Visualization

Narrative

Internet

Lifemapper Services

Specify

Lifemapper Back-end

Data Archive Compute Resources

Pipeline

Back-end Software

Lifemapper Front-end

Internet

Software

Standards

<EML>

REST

SHP

ISO 19115

GTIFF

Lifemapper Relationships

ResearchClients

Servers

Client/Server

Specify Client

Lifemapper Tools

Modeling &

Analysis

LmSDM:Species Distribution Modeling

LmRAD:Range and Diversity

LmSDM:Species Distribution Modeling

Species Occurrence Data

Environmental Data

SDM Modeling AlgorithmPredicted Habitat

LmRAD:Range and Diversity

Species Habitat Data

Presence Absence Matrix (PAM)

Range and Diversity Quantifications

Metadata!!!

• Repeatability and Reproducibility• Process metadata• Extended EML– Describes steps / workflow– Read by EML-Reader – Transformed into Narratives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCFixtqlimg

New Directions

• With UNM EDAC and UTEP Cyber-ShARE– Extend environmental layers to NASA data – Provenance between EDAC and LM services

• SDM of fossil invertebrates• Advanced 3-d viz using GPUs and openGL• Identify location based on species

Take home!

• Web services exposing tools and data– Species Distribution Modeling– Range and Diversity

• Standards allowing mix and match• Clients simplifying access• Metadata simplifying re-execution• Collaborations making us happy

Lifemapper funded by:

U.S. National Science Foundation

NSF EPSCoR 0553722

NSF EPSCoR 0919443

EHR/DRL 0918590

BIO/DBI 0851290

OCI/CI-TEAM 0753336

http://www.lifemapper.orgastewart@ku.edu