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An OAI-based Digital Library Framework for Biodiversity Information Systems

Torres, Ricardo and Medeiros, Claudia and Goncalves, Marcos Andre and Fox, Edward (2004) An OAI-based Digital Library Framework for Biodiversity Information Systems. Technical Report TR-04-01a, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

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Abstract

Biodiversity information systems (BISs) involve all kinds of heterogeneous data, which include ecological and geographical features. However, available information systems offer very limited support for managing such data in an integrated fashion, and integration is often based on geographic coordinates alone. Furthermore, such systems do not fully support image content management (e.g., photos of landscapes or living organisms), a requirement of many BIS end-users. In order to meet their needs, these users - e.g., biologists, environmental experts - often have to alternate between distinct biodiversity and image information systems to combine information extracted from them. This cumbersome operational procedure is forced on users by lack of interoperability among these systems. This hampers the addition of new data sources, as well as cooperation among scientists. The approach provided in this paper to meet these issues is based on taking advantage of advances in Digital Library (DL) innovations to integrate networked collections of heterogeneous data. It focuses on creating the basis for a biodiversity information system under the digital library perspective, combining new techniques of content-based image retrieval and database query processing mechanisms. This approach solves the problem of system switching, and provides users with a flexible platform from which to tailor a BIS to their needs.

Item Type:Departmental Technical Report
Keywords:OAI, digital library architecture, biodiversity information system, content-based image retrieval
Subjects:Computer Science > Digital Libraries
ID Code:680
Deposited By:Administrator, Eprints
Deposited On:26 August 2005

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