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    Historical Considerations in Biodiversity Informatics

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    Historical collections of biological specimens are potentially rich sources of data for contemporary researchers. However, many technical issues have to be addressed in order to make these collections widely available. This paper reports on a qualitative study of historical and current data practices at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, which is seeking wider understanding of the historical dimensions of specimen metadata, in order to support migration to more global standards. A detailed case study of a single specimen shows how that specimen has been described in multiple ways and in multiple locations within the Academy, and the historically complex nature of the data and metadata contained in these descriptions.ye

    PROPOSTA DE INTEGRAÇÃO DE RECURSOS DO PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL CIENTÍFICO NO MODELO EDM: uma perspectiva de representação de um domínio temático

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    As instituições que lidam com a curadoria do patrimônio cultural têm o desafio de organizar as informações do campo em que estão inseridas e englobando questões sobre interoperabilidade de dados na internet. O uso das tecnologias da Web Semântica e dos princípios Linked Data tem sido apontado como facilitador para interligar dados e recursos oriundos de diferentes acervos e procedências a partir do momento em que possibilita que se estabeleçam metadados de ligações semânticas em contextos específicos. Neste ensaio propomos um estudo de caso sobre formas de integração de bens documentais do Patrimônio Cultural Científico, tomando por base a modelagem de descrição de recursos Europeana Data Model (EDM) e a possibilidade do reuso de metadados já estabelecidas por vocabulários semânticos. Dessa forma, buscamos verificar como esta abordagem pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento de uma rede de dados em campos mais específicos do patrimônio cultural mais específicos

    Metadata Management and Interoperability Support for Natural History Museums

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    Metadata management and interoperability support for natural history museums

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    Summarization: Natural History Museums (NHMs) are a rich source of knowledge about Earth’s biodiversity and natural history. However, an impressive abundance of high quality scientific content available in NHMs around Europe remains largely unexploited due to a number of barriers, such as: the lack of interconnection and interoperability between the management systems used by museums, the lack of centralized access through a European point of reference like Europeana, and the inadequacy of the current metadata and content organization. The Natural Europe project offers a coordinated solution at European level that aims to overcome those barriers. This paper presents the architecture, deployment and evaluation of the Natural Europe infrastructure allowing the curators to publish, semantically describe and manage the museums’ Cultural Heritage Objects, as well as disseminate them to Europeana.eu and biodiversity networks like BioCASE and GBIF.Presented on
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