BioCASe Workshop

=Intention= The goal of this workshop is to make the staff from the Herbaria acquainted with the BioCASe Provider Software, ABCD and HISPID. After the two days, they should be hopefully able to set up a BioCASe datasource on their own servers providing data with ABCD/HISPID.

=Agenda=
 * 1) The BioCASe Architecture: An Overview
 * 2) The BioCASe Provider Software: Features, Requirements, Installation, Configuration
 * 3) The ABCD and HISPID data standards: Intentions, Structure, Elements, Use
 * 4) Preparing the database for BioCASe/ABCD
 * 5) Setting Up Datasources: Database connection, Table Setup, Mapping Process; Testing, Data Backups
 * 6) Miscellaneous Issues

=Participants= Facilitator: John Tann Presenter: Jörg Holetschek

Brisbane: Peter Bostock Sydney: Gary Chapple, Wayne Cherry Canberra: Greg Whitbread, Paul Harvey, Nunzio Knerr Melbourne: Alison Vaughan, Niels Klazenga Adelaide: - Perth: Ben Richardson Darwin:	- University of New England: Jon Burne eResearchSA (AVH): Shunde Zhang, Craig Patten HISCOM: Brett Summerell Gaia Resources: Anthony Jones Atlas of Living Australia: Miles Nicholls

=Slides= The slides can be downloaded here: http://www.biocase.org/whats_biocase/BioCASe_Workshop_Melbourne.ppt.

=Useful Links=

The BioCASe Architecture: An Overview BioCASe website: http://www.biocase.org/whats_biocase/index.shtml BioCASe unit level network: http://www.biocase.org/whats_biocase/unit_net.shtml BioCASe provider map: http://www.biocase.org/whats_biocase/providers_map.shtml BioCASe provider list: http://www.biocase.org/whats_biocase/providers_list.cfm BioCASe european data portal: http://search.biocase.org/europe

The BioCASe Provider Software: Features, Requirements, Installation, Configuration BioCASe Provider Software: http://www.biocase.org/products/provider_software/ Python: http://www.python.org/ Apache: http://www.apache.org/

The ABCD and HISPID data standards: Intentions, Structure, Elements, Use ABCD 2.06 data standard: http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/default.htm http://www.bgbm.org/tdwg/CODATA/Schema/default.htm http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/Mappings/DwCAndExtensions.htm http://www.tdwg.org/standards/115/ http://www.bgbm.org/scripts/ASP/TDWG/frame.asp HISPID: http://hiscom.chah.org.au/wiki/Herbarium_Information_Standards_and_Protocols_for_Interchange_of_Data BioCASe Protocol: http://www.biocase.org/products/protocols/

Preparing the database for BioCASe/ABCD See presentation slides.

Setting Up Datasources: Database connection, Table Setup, Mapping Process; Testing, Data Backups See presentation slides.

Miscellaneous Issues BioCASe European Data Portal: http://search.biocase.org/europe EDIT Specimen Explorer on global data: http://search.biocase.org/edit GeoCASe Simple Distributed Search Portal: http://search.biocase.org/geocase ABCD-EFG (Extension For Geosciences): http://www.geocase.eu/ DNA-Bank Network (DNA extension): http://www.dnabank-network.org GBIF data portal: http://data.gbif.org Hermes Lite: http://gaia-hermes.sourceforge.net

= Contact = Jörg Holetschek

Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Dept. for Biodiversity Informatics Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Germany

jDOTholetschekATbgbmDOTorg

Tel. +49 30 838 50150 Feb - Mar: +61 448 831 980