[tdwg] EoL funding for APM work with Plazi

Lee Belbin leebel at netspace.net.au
Fri Aug 1 01:42:30 CEST 2008


(From Eamonn)

Dear TDWG Members,

I am very pleased to announce the awarding of a contract to Dr Donat Agosti
of Plazi (www.plazi.org) to undertake work on the Species Profile Model
(SPM). With funding from Encyclopedia of Life (EOL - www.eol.org), Plazi
will develop an SPM extension module as an addendum to their 2007 GBIF Seed
Money Award project entitled "Extracting Nomenclatural Data, Species
Descriptions and Collecting Events from Legacy Publications: The
Zootaxa-TaxonX-ZooBank Project" (GBIF Tracking Number 2007-94). The latter
provides, as one of its outputs, biodiversity literature encoded as TaxonX
XML documents through the use of the GoldenGate markup tool. 

The SPM extension will provide XSLT scripts for the creation of SPM
documents expressed in RDF from the TaxonX documents. The RDF files will be
mounted on the Plazi web server for harvesting by SPM aware agents,
particularly those to be created by the EOL project. SPM data will be served
through TAPIR.

This work will be done in close cooperation with GBIF and will engage the
wider community through use of the SPM wiki site (http://wiki.tdwg.org/SPM)
and mailing list (tdwg-spm-owner at lists.tdwg.org)  hosted by TDWG. Other
parties will be assisted in exposing species data contained in literature
through documenting the process of using the freely accessible GoldenGate
tools to provide SPM encoded data. The results of the project will also be
presented in the SPM session at the TDWG 2008 conference.

If you are interested in participating in developments around SPM, please
join the TDWG SPM mailing list (tdwg-spm at lists.tdwg.org) and keep an eye on
the SPM wiki (http://wiki.tdwg.org/SPM/). 

Best regards,

Éamonn

--
Éamonn Ó Tuama, Ms.C., Ph.D. (eotuama at gbif.org), Senior Programme Officer -
Inventory, Discover, Access (IDA), Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen Ø, DENMARK

Phone:  +45 3532 1494; 
Fax:  	+45 3532 1480



Lee Belbin
TDWG Secretariat





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