1. BioLing
Interdisciplinary - Corpus driven -
Collaboration
Wandl-Vogt,E.1 Mohr,R.1
Rainer,H.2 Koller,W.2
1
Academía de cienias de Austria
2
Museo d‘historia natural de Viena

2. focus
• pilot on vernacular-, folk-, book-names of
plants and fungi
• synergies through interdisciplinary
collaboration
 method & first results
CLIC2013 Alacant 2013-03-14

3. what we do..
OpenUp!+Flora of Austria+Taxonomic
Monographs+Digitisation
WBÖ+DBÖ
 e-infrastructures
CLIC2013 Al a Cant 2013-03-14

4. overview
• environment and projects
WBÖ+DBÖ, EUROPEANA, OpenUp!
• taxon names for biological organisms
• collaboration
• conclusio / outlook
CLIC2013 al Acanth 2013-03-14

5. projects | WBÖ + DBÖ
dialectal dictionary
Bavarian dialects in the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy
– analogue corpus 1912-
– dictionary 1963-
– digital corpus 1993-
– WBÖ 5.vol. (E-)
– DBÖ (D-/T- Z)
– DBÖ (fungi) 07.2010
– WBÖ eBook 07.2012 (Beta)
oeaw.ac.at/dinamlex
wboe.oeaw.ac.at
CLIC2013 Al a‘Cant 2013-03-14

6. projects | EUROPEANA
• „think culture“
• portal for European cultural heritage / legacy
• „Europeana enables people to explore the digital
resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives
and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery
and networking opportunities in a multilingual space
where users can engage, share in and be inspired by
the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific
heritage.“
www.europeana.eu

7. projects | OpenUp!
• EUROPEANA framework
• „opening up natural history“
• „…provide multimedia content with specific
biological and multilingual functionality to a
wide audience through a the EUROPEANA
portal“
www.open-up.eu
CLIC2013 Al Ak Ant 2013-03-14

8. projects | OpenUp! WP6
• mapping of scientific taxon name with multilingual
vernacular names representations („meanings“)
• evaluation of existing metadata models for
integration of common names, geographical
placenames and person names in OpenUp!
• validation of scientific names, common names,
geographical placenames and person-names on the
basis of reference systems ( thesauri )
• establishment of an „enrichment service layer“

9. projects | OpenUp! WP6
multilingual metadata enrichment – common names
Provider
ABCD 2.06
<xs:element name="FullScientificNameString" type="String">
Bellis perennis L.
</xs:element>
common name
Ausdauerndes Gänseblümchen (German) Busserl
Cvetiče ledinsko (Croatian) BöW WBÖ …
Daisy (English)
…..
ESE-Title: Bellis perennis L.
ESE-addTitle: Ausdauerndes Gänseblümchen
Cvetiče ledinsko
Daisy

10. collaboration | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
framework for collaboration
• benefits for both partners
• following established workflows
• (actually) no new financial ressources needed

11. collaboration | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
• WP6 – to do: data model / metadata schema
challenge:
absent linguistic knowledge and expertise
name is a linguistic category
• WBÖ|DBÖ – to do: definitions for folk- /
common / vernacular names
challenge:
absent botanical knowledge and expertise
instability of scientific taxon names > „moving targets“

12. collaboration |
WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
1998

13. collaboration | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
wboe.oeaw.ac.at

14. (web)services | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
vhv &
dbo@ema
webservice

15. (web)services | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
vhv &
dbo@ema
webservice

16. (web)services | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
vhv &
dbo@ema
webservice

17. collaboration| WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
common names model
open-up.eu

18. collaboration | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
common names model – linguistic part
open-up.eu

19. collaboration | WP6 + WBÖ|DBÖ
common names model – biological part
open-up.eu

20. goal | WBÖ|DBÖ @ EUROPEANA

21. future | foundations
• distributed expertise
• standards
missing standards > elaboration,
integration existing standards (ABCD, ASI, ISO..)
• „open access“
infrastructure, tools, data

22. future | foundations
• distributed expertise
• standards
missing standards > elaboration,
integration existing standards (ABCD, ASI, ISO..)
• „open access“
infrastructure, tools, data
data
join in!
CLIC2013 à la Kant 2013-03-14

23. collaboration | foundations
• domain experts 
↑
quality
↑
quantity
• standards, Open Access, Open Linked Data 
reusability of data
↑
access to data
CLIC2013 Ali Kant 2013-03-14

24. future | foundations
project idea
•bidirectional webservices
linguistics   biology
•moving targets
scientific taxon names
classifications
CLIC2013 Ali Cant 2013-03-14

25. future | foundations
 BioLing 
CLIC2013 Alicante 2013-03-14

26. open-up.eu / europeana.at
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