Identification keys

Régine Vignes LebbeUPMC

Regine.vignes_lebbe@upmc.fr

ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity

Workpackage 5ViBRANT SERVICE ACTIVITES

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Staff UPMC (UPMC-MNHN-CNRS)• Régine Vignes Lebbe, Pr UPMC• Florian Causse, IT UPMC• Visotheary Rivière-Ung (IE CNRS)• IT developper (to be hired)

Background• Knowledge repesentation, computer-aided identification, phylogeny and

biogeography• Applications (Botany, entomology, paleontology …)• Projects (BioCASE, EDIT ) • Standards (GBIF, TDWG SDD)

Collaboration in ViBRANT• WP4 Standardisation: link Scratchpad-CDM, ontology tools• WP5 Scratchpad user interface and matrix editor

Who we are & what we do

Xper2

management and analysis

of descriptions

Lisbeththree item analysis,

biogeography

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Develop identification services using morphological descriptions

Morphological descriptions will be edited via the scratchpad matrix editor. Results will be returned to the scratchpad instance for user access

Take benefit of the tools for descriptive data developed in the CDM EDIT platform

What we will do in ViBRANT

Single access key Free access key

Dichotomous or polytomous keys.

From morphological data, a tree structure has to be constructuted by hand or automatically by a Key generator

Use one (monothetic) or several (polythetic) characters at each node.

(Mykey)

Identification is made directly from the standardized descriptions.

One character at each step (monothetic) or several characters at the same time (polythetic)

Xper2

ScratchpadWebservices

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1. Automated construction of identification keys (single access keys)

Key generator

Key

• Leaf• Number os

petals• Type of fruit• Pollen grainsc

Identification

Taxa1Taxa2…

How we are doing it

Matrix editor

SDD / HTML / URL

SDD / CSV

CDM

Schedule

• Prototype 1 (M12)

Recommandations of WP3Ontology of WP4

Enhanced scratchpad UI and matrix editor WP5

• Prototype 2 (M24)

• Test and validation

3. Free access key using Xper2-CDM

2. Polythetic free access key service

Xper2

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Who are our users & how will they engage?

Scratchpads users:

• All providers of morphological data with the matrix editor of the scratchpads, expecting to add identification services on their sites.

• Users who consult a scratchpad instance and need resources to identify specimens.

• Users of tools to manage descriptive data and to identify (Xper2, Lucid, DeltaAccess etc.) who want to include these data in a scratchpad site.