www.morphbank.net Morphbank Image Repository Plus… Paleocollections Workshop April 26 – 28, 2012 Deborah L. Paul Support from NSF grants: Biological Databases and Informatics (BDI) Program (Grant DBI-0446224) Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections Program (#EF1115210) Advancing Biological Informatics (ABI) (Grant #0851313)
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www.morphbank.net
MorphbankImage Repository Plus…
Paleocollections WorkshopApril 26 – 28, 2012
Deborah L. Paul
Support from NSF grants: Biological Databases and Informatics (BDI) Program (Grant
DBI-0446224)Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections Program
Morphbank overview• Morphbank: a collaborative tool.
– an open web repository of biological images serving the scientific research community.
• First developed in 1998 by a Swedish-American-Spanish consortium as an open ftp site.
• Additional installations in Sweden, Finland, and Australia.• Morphbank’s home:
– The Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication (iDigInfo) at Florida State University (FSU) with support from FSU’s Department of Scientific Computing
• Current staff members:– Greg Riccardi, PI– Austin Mast, Co PI– Deborah Paul, Data Analyst– Robert Bruhn, Programmer (PHP)– Guillaume Jimenez, Programmer (Java, Web Services)
Morphbank overview• Morphbank: a collaborative tool.
– an open web repository of biological images serving the scientific research community.
• First developed in 1998 by a Swedish-American-Spanish consortium as an open ftp site.
• Additional installations in Sweden, Finland, and Australia.• Morphbank’s home:
– The Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication (iDigInfo) at Florida State University (FSU) with support from FSU’s Department of Scientific Computing
• Current staff members:– Greg Riccardi, PI– Austin Mast, Co PI– Deborah Paul, Data Analyst– Robert Bruhn, Programmer (PHP)– Guillaume Jimenez, Programmer (Java, Web Services)
– over 19,000 distinct taxa – Animalia over 8,500 distinct taxa– Plantae over 10,400 distinct taxa– 594 members– from 45 countries– Each image has a context:
• specimen, taxon, locality, specimen part, view angle, etc.• Encyclopedia of Life (EoL) provider• Repository of information related to the images
– Specimens, localities, taxa, annotations, collections– Contributor, submitter, group, date, permissions– Unique identity for each object
Thanks from the Morphbank Team ~ 2012• Greg Riccardi• Austin Mast• Fredrik Ronquist• Debbie Paul• Robert Bruhn• Guillaume Jimenez• Steven Winner• Katja Seltmann• Albert Prieto-Marquez• Corinne Jorgensen• Michael Jennings• Neelima Jammigumpula• Karolina Jakimoska• David Gaitros• Cynthia Gaitros• Greg Erickson• Andrew Deans• Christopher Cprek• Wilfredo Blanco