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eScience-Compliant Standards for Morphology

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Project title: 
eScience-Compliant Standards for Morphology
ZFMK Project lead: 
Dr. Peter Grobe [13]
Unit: 
Biodiversity Informatics [14], Mammalogy [15]

Description

Increasing the Sustainability and Accessibility of Morphological Data through Ontology-based Standardization of Morphological and Taxonomic Descriptions and Graphical Image Content Annotations

 

Location

Team
Dr. Peter Grobe [13]
ZFMK Project lead
Biodiversity Informatics [14]
Dr. Jan Decher [16]
 
Mammalogy [15], Bat Banding Centre [17]

External team members

Dr. Lars Vogt (coordination)
Research assistant
Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Zooökologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
An der Immenburg 1, D-53111 Bonn, Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0)228 73 51 22
Fax: ++49 (0)228 73 51 29
email: lars.m.vogt[at]googlemail.com

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Fratzl
Abteilung Biomaterialien, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Wissenschaftspark Potsdam-Golm
D-14424 Potsdam, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)331 567 9401
Fax: +49 (0)331 567 9402
Email: gabbe[at]mpikg.mpg.de

PD Dr. Michael Ohl
Akademischer Rat
Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut fuer Evolutions- und Biodiversitaetsforschung
Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0)30 2093 8507
Fax: ++49 (0)30 2093 8868
email: michael.ohl[at]mfn-berlin.de

Prof. Dr. Stefan Richter
Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock
Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany
Tel: ++49 (0)381 498 6260
Fax: ++49 (0)39 498 6262
Email: stefan.richter[at]uni-rostock.de
 

 

 

Funding

GR 4241/1-1

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Details

Within the last decades, research in life sciences has changed considerably. Today, many scientists use computers for data exploration, compile new datasets from openly available data and analyze them under new premises. This eScience approach requires data to be openly available through the Internet and utilizes applications of the Semantic Web. Unfortunately, morphology and morphological taxonomy do not take part in eScience yet, because 1) accessible morphological content is restricted to published literature, and corresponding sources of data and raw data (serial sections, images, etc.) often get lost; 2) to date, morphological descriptions cannot be deposited in general data repositories, because respective eScience-compliant standards are nonexistent. The solution to both problems involves the use of semantically transparent terminologies, i.e. ontologies.

Applying a user-centered-design approach and in close coordination with four use case studies, we will develop three new ontology-based modules for the morphological data repository Morph·D·Base [19]: 1) morphological descriptions, 2) graphical image content annotations, 3) taxonomic descriptions, which will also provide automatically generated dynamic multiple entry identification keys. Based on the four use case studies, we will test their usability regarding increasing the accessibility of morphological data for non-experts, eScience-compliant standardization of taxonomic descriptions, the digitization of natural history collections, and for studies of comparative morphology.

Contact person

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Dr. Peter Grobe [13]
Head of Section
Biodiversity Informatics [14]
+49 228 9122-342
+49 228 9122-212
p.grobe [at] leibniz-zfmk.de

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Wiki eMorphology [20]

Source URL:https://bonn.leibniz-lib.de/en/research/projects/escience-compliant-standards-for-morphology-0

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