FilteredPush

After three decades of standards development and computerization of natural history collections many millions of vouchered specimen records are available in global electronic networks. Vast numbers of specimen records remain only accessible on paper. Available records are highly variable in quality and rich in three decades worth of data capture and migration errors. Far more seriously, specimen data is being brought to the desktops of the researchers and specialists best able to correct and clean those data, without an easy means for the return of those researchers' corrections to those specimen collections. It is this very annotation by specialists that keeps natural history collections vital.

The Project

We are designing and implementing a network, which we term Filtered Push, to connect remote sites where annotations can be generated with the authoritative databases of the collections holding the vouchers to which those annotations apply. The name reflects function; Push, as annotations can be pushed from remote corners of the network back to authoritative data sets, Filtered, as the curators of these data sets can filter and reject annotations of their data.

• Demonstration of a FilteredPush Network transporting a new determination as an actionable OA/OAD annotation from Symbiota to an annotation processor with ingest into a Specify database OA/OAD Demo.

• Demonstration of a FilteredPush Network transporting new determinations as annotations between Morphbank, Symbiota, and Specify6, SPNHC 2012: FP SPNHC 2012 demo video SCAN All Hands 2012 screenshots

• Demonstration of Kepler Curation Workflow interacting with a FilteredPush Network, SPNHC 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEkPbvLsud0

• The Open Annotation Ontology and its extension to data
• Background Documents
• Publications
• SPNHC Demo 2010
• SPNHC Demo 2011 Kepler Kuration Package demonstration video
• Reference Papers

FilteredPush Software

Design	Development	Deployment
Project Charter Technologies Use Case Scenarios Aggregated into Use cases FP Production Requirements Prototype Reports Early versions of the Prototype design, and the Production FP Design FP Messages and Concepts EngineeringGoals	Project Roadmap ApplePie instance of a FilteredPush network for botanical collections following AppleCore. Build and run FP in Eclipse Production Coding Standards Project on SourceForge Annotation Ontology FP Development Documentation	FP-Lite deployment for SCAN FP-Medium deployment for SCAN SPNHC 2012 Demo Deployment (FP-Medium) Installing and Running the Prototype (2010)

Internal

• Project Management
• 2010 All Hands Meeting
• 2011 Davis Meeting
• Test Data Sets
• TestSMW For maintenance and testing of SMW.

Funding

NSF: DBI #0646266 and NSF: DBI #0960535