TaxonWorks @ Lepidoptera checklist workshop
Overview
What is TaxonWorks?
LepIndex
Donald's questions
TaxonWorks?
A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for biodiversity scientists
Who? Individuals, labs, small-medium sized teams
Emphasis on solid, extensible, and flexible semantics reflecting researchers workflows
Workflows from inception to publication, from specimens up to (not including) genomic level data
TaxonWorks - Concepts
Revitalizing monographs workshop
@TaxonWorks thread of highlights
TaxonWorks 1.0? @ BiodiversityNext
Weekly webinars (Wednesday 10:30 CST, ping me for the URL)
TaxonWorks - Production highlights
3i World Auchenorrhyncha Database - 115k+ names; 234k observations, >1my rows of metadata
Universal Chalcidoidea Database - 86k+ names + >1.2my rows of metadata
INHS, Frost, NCSU Insect collections - > 1my specimens, 300k+ collecting events
LepIndex - 304288K names, 600k+ images, etc.
Several "small" efforts, 2-5k names
Coming - Species Files - Orthoptera, Plecoptera etc. well over 150k more names
LepIndex in TaxonWorks
Since July 16, 2017
Contains 574225 card images
Largely untouched post import
Extensions beyond Nomenclature
"Would there be scope for communities working on subtaxa of the whole order to extend their focus and manage data on aspects other than nomenclature and taxonomy? What TW modules are already suitable for this?"
Extensions in use
Asserted distributions
Matrices editing
Image libraries
Collection object digitization
Type material
Roles, restrictions, etc.
"Could the editing capabilities of an individual be restricted to a subtaxon?"
Possible but ...
Projects + Identifiers
Curate + Train ! Contain
Report and Revert
Species/taxon pages
Would TW be a suitable place to try to manage structured species profiles with standard images, sequences, etc. like this site: https://araneae.nmbe.ch/data/206/Araneus_diadematus?
-- YES --
Image matrix
Content editor
"Pages" project
Checklist/catalog visualizations
"What visualisations of the checklist are planned (cf. my HTML pages for Alucitoidea)?"
Increased functionality for "Browse nomenclature"
Timeline views (integrated OTU and nomenclature citations)
ColDP dump (demo for Donald's data)
Asserted distributions
Publication read formats
Customizations to "Nomenclature stats"
API -> Graph viz / Donald's
Darwin Core Checklist dump