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Zoology), Third Report and Outlook COMPONENT REPORT Project Acronym: OpenUp! Grant Agreement No: 270890 Project Title: Opening up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana C4.3.3 - Sustainable content provision (zoology), third report and outlook Revision: Version 1b Authors: Mareike Hirschfeld MfN (Component) Peter Schalk ETI (Content Description) Olle Hints GIT (Content Description) Barbara Wunder LANDOOE (Content Description) Martin Licht MfN (Content Description) Noémie Vasset MNHN (Content Description) Larissa Smirnova RMCA (Content Description) Maarten Heerlien NCBN (Content Description Radek Šanda NM (zoology, content description) Boris Ekrt NM (palaeontology, content description) Jiří Sejkora NM (mineralogy, content description) Petr Velemínský NM (anthropology, content description) Martin Fikáček NM (zoology, content description) Peter Danes NM (content description) Patrick Grootaert RBINS (Content Description) Christian Lange UCPH (Content Description) Hanna Koivula UH (Content Description) Kai Vellak UT-NHM (Content Description) Sigfrid Ingrisch ZFMK (Content Description) Project co-funded by the European Commission within the ICT Policy Support Programme Dissemination Level P Public X C Confidential, only for members of the consortium and the Commission Services Revision History Revision Date Author Organisation Description Draft 1 10.01.2014 M Hirschfeld MfN Compiling first draft the component Draft 1a 14.01.2014 L. Smirnova RMCA Revision of RMCA description Draft 1b 15.01.2014 B. Wunder LANDOOE Revision of LANDOOE description Draft 1c 15.01.2014 S. Ingrisch ZFMK Revision of ZFMK description Draft 2 20.01.2014 M Hirschfeld MfN Incorporating revisions of Content Provider Version 1 22.01. 2014 M Hirschfeld MfN Final version V 1a 23.01.2014 P. Böttinger BGBM Final editing Coordination Team V. 1b 14.03.2014 W. Berendsohn BGBM Minor editing Statement of Originality This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both. Distribution Recipient Date Version Accepted YES/NO WP4 Consortium 10.01.2014 Draft 1 Work Package Leader 21.01.2014 Draft 2 YES (Gregor Hagedorn, WP4) OpenUp! Coordination 22.01.2014 Version 1 Project Coordinator 14.03.2014 Version 1b YES (W. Berendsohn, BGBM) Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Status of Content Provision ............................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Overview ...............................................................................................................................................2 2.2 WP4 content provider ..........................................................................................................................5 2.2.1 ETI Bioinformatics - Stichting Expertisecentrum voor Taxonomische Identificaties ................5 2.2.2 Institute of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallin ...............................................7 2.2.3 Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz ......................................................7 2.2.4 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin...............................................................................................8 2.2.5 Museum of Natural History, Paris ............................................................................................9 2.2.6 Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden .................................................................................... 10 2.2.7 Natural History Museum London .......................................................................................... 10 2.2.8 National Museum (Natural History), Prague ......................................................................... 11 2.2.9 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels ............................................................ 11 2.2.10 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren .......................................................................... 12 2.2.11 University of Copenhagen, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen ................. 13 2.2.12 University of Helsinki, Finish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki ...................................... 13 2.2.13 Natural history museum at University of Tartu ..................................................................... 14 2.2.14 Zoological Research Museum Alexander König, Bonn .......................................................... 14 3. Content provider and their mobilized multimedia objects ................................................................ 15 3.1 ETI Bioinformatics - Stichting Expertisecentrum voor Taxonomische Identificaties (ETI) ................ 15 3.2 Institute of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallin (GIT) ............................................... 16 3.3 Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museum (LANDOOE) ................................................... 17 3.4 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (MfN) ............................................................................................. 19 3.5 Museum of Natural History, Paris (MNHN) ....................................................................................... 23 3.6 Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NCBN) ................................................................................................ 24 3.7 National Museum Prague (NM) ......................................................................................................... 26 3.8 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) .......................................................................... 29 3.9 Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) ......................................................................................... 29 3.10 University of Copenhagen, Natural History Museum of Denmark (UCPH) ....................................... 32 3.11 University of Helsinki, Finish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki (UH) .......................................... 33 3.12 Natural history museum at University of Tartu (UT-NHM) ............................................................... 35 3.13 Zoological Research Museum Alexander König, Bonn (ZFMK) .......................................................... 35 4. Content in the pipeline ................................................................................................................... 37 5. Outlook .......................................................................................................................................... 37 6. List of References ........................................................................................................................... 39 6.1 Publications ....................................................................................................................................... 39 6.2 Web sites ........................................................................................................................................... 39 1. Introduction Work package 4 is realising the mobilisation and provision of zoological multimedia objects and associated metadata in the OpenUp! project (see also C4.2.01). Furthermore, a model for the integration of paleontological, mineralogical and anthropological multimedia objects was developed and is successfully implemented (see C4.5.02). The standards used for data exchange in WP4 are ABCD 2.06 and ABCDEFG 1.0. WP4 is the only Work package in OpenUp! which mobilises content from four different domains, such as zoology, palaeontology (zoology and botany), mineralogy, and anthropology. The quality check of the object associated metadata as well as the display of content in Europeana are important tasks in WP4 in order to assure consistent multimedia objects and metadata standards across all content providers and datasets despite the heterogeneous nature of the content (see also C4.4.13, C4.4.24 and C4.4.3(to be published)). Content in WP4 is highly diverse and includes digital representations of specimens, labels, field books, maps, and scientific drawings but also digital sound recordings and movies. Although OpenUp! content provided to Europeana is currently dominated by botanical objects, the value and uniqueness of the zoological content should not be underestimated. The production of multimedia objects for WP4 is limited by the nature of zoological natural history objects themselves. In contrast to botanical specimens, which often are preserved as dried flattened specimens on herbarium sheets, zoological objects are 3-dimensional or represented by audio recordings and movies. They have to be photographed or recorded individually which is a time-consuming process and of course limits the output. Nevertheless, high quality specimen images of zoological objects and sound recordings have a high potential to attract users. In the future, new and more sophisticated imaging technology, like SAT-Scans and Micro-CT, will speed up the production process of zoological multimedia objects. In the OpenUp! Project, not all content providers release their full metadata set to Europeana due to issues with the imposed CC0 license on metadata in Europeana (see Europeana Data Exchange Agreement – DEA5). Therefore, we differentiate between providers releasing the full metadata set to Europeana (OpenUp! Data Access Agreement
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