IMLS ILLINOIS NORTH CAROLINA COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR BOTANICAL RESOURCES

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IMLSILLINOIS / NORTH CAROLINA COLLABORATIVE
ENVIRONMENT FOR BOTANICAL RESOURCES

• Preliminary Design Document
• P. Bryan Heidorn
• February 18, 2002

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Kevin Thiele's working document for SDD

• http//www.tdwg.org/tdwg2001/SDD_TDWG_2001.htm

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Challenge 1 Represent basic descriptions of two
taxa from one (natural language) source

• Exemplar Discaria pubescens
• Rigid, spreading shrub to c. 1m high and wide
  stems glabrous. Leaves soon deciduous
  (particularly on older plants), /- oblong,
  (4-)6-10(-15) mm long, 2-3 mm wide, apex obtuse
  or minutely mucronate within an apical notch,
  glabrous or a few hairs present near tip
  stipules dark reddish-brown, c. 1 mm long, often
  shallowly joined around the node spines stout,
  1.5-4 cm long

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Abstract Structure
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Partial Candidate Structure
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Partwise Decomposition
Part
Connection
Leaf
Stem
Lobe
Blade
Sinus
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Partwise Decomposition
Part
Length
Connection
Width
Shape
Leaf
Length
Cardinality
Shape
Pediole
Lobe
Blade
Shape?
Length
Sinus
Cross section
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Part Relation

• (defclass Acorn-to-Cup (Connection)((Dominant
  initform 'Acorn) Reference object
  (Subservient initform 'AcornCup) Object being
  dominated (Dominant-Locus initform 'base)
  (Subservient-Locus initform 'InnerTop) (X-Angle
  initform 0) (Y-Angle initform 0) (Z-Angle
  initform 0) (RelLength initform .3)
  relative length of Subservient to Dominant
  (RelWidth initform 1.2) relative width to
  account for rim (RelDepth initform 1.2)
  relative depth of Subservient to Dominant))

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Design Objectives

• Support Distributed Image-based Polyclave Keys
• Distribution (OAI)
• Feature Lists w/ images
• Similarity Space
• Taxonomic Images and Description

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Character (Image) Sharing
OA Harvester
PV.XML
Federated Database
OA Server
OA Server
Polyclave Server
UNC Database
UI Database
The world
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Open Archive

• Server from NCSA (Joe Futrelle)
• Presentation March 1, 300
• Project Programmer - Mark Sullivan (on
  OpenKeyDev)
• May be SOAP connection

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Open Archive Properties

• Harvester accesses resource list.
• Ask servers for new records
• Metadata oriented (Dublin core)
• Does not transport content directly

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PlantCharacteristic

• lt?xml version"1.0"?gt
• lt!DOCTYPE PlantCharacteristic SYSTEM
  "http//soldev.isrl.uiuc.edu/webvibe/PlantCharact
  ers/PlantImageCharacteristic.dtd"gt
• ltImageElementsgt
• ltPartgtLeaf-Stemlt/Partgt
• ltValueNamegtAlternatelt/ValueNamegt
• ltDescriptiongtLeaf Arrangements -
  Alternatelt/Descriptiongt
• ltImageLocationgthttp//soldev.isrl.uiuc.edu/webvib
  e/PlantCharacters/images/AlternateLeaf.jpglt/ImageL
  ocationgt
• ltCopyrightHoldergtIllinois Natural History
  Surveylt/CopyrightHoldergt

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PlantCharacteristic

• ltSourcegtObserving, Photographing, and Collecting
  Plants. Illinois Natural History Survey Circular
  55, 1980lt/Sourcegt
• ltDateCreatedgtJanuary 29, 2002lt/DateCreatedgt
• ltSpeciesgtlt/Speciesgt
• ltDerivedFromgtAnother Imagelt/DerivedFromgt
• ltContributorgt
• ltContributorIDgtpbheidornlt/ContributorIDgt
• ltContributorNamegtP. Bryan
  Heidornlt/ContributorNamegt
• ltContributorDetailsgtUniversity of
  Illinois, GSLISlt/ContributorDetailsgt
• lt/ImageElementsgt

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SDD Challenge Cases

• The challenge cases below represent specific
  classes of problems that the SDD Standard needs
  to address. The exemplar for each case provides a
  chunk or fragment of descriptive data that
  minimally exemplifies the problem the challenge
  is to validly represent the data under the
  evolving standard. The challenges are listed in
  the approximate order in which they will be
  worked through.
• Challenge 1 Represent basic descriptions of two
  taxa from one (natural language) source
• Exemplar
• Discaria pubescens
• Rigid, spreading shrub to c. 1m high and wide
  stems glabrous. Leaves soon deciduous
  (particularly on older plants), /- oblong,
  (4-)6-10(-15) mm long, 2-3 mm wide, apex obtuse
  or minutely mucronate within an apical notch,
  glabrous or a few hairs present near tip
  stipules dark reddish-brown, c. 1 mm long, often
  shallowly joined around the node spines stout,
  1.5-4 cm long
• Discaria nitida
• Slender shrub, to 5 m high stems glabrous.
  Leaves persistent (rarely deciduous), elliptic to
  obovate, (8-)10-20(-30) mm long, 3-7 mm wide,
  glabrous, shining spines not developed at each
  node, to c. 1 cm long.